Chapter 166: True Phoenix Nest

Chapter 166: True Phoenix Nest

"This... isn't that great, is it?"

Qin Xuan questioned tactfully, though the smile on his face could no longer be contained.

Hundreds of Immortal Stones—the harvest this time was no less than robbing a large-scale Sect!

And it was Little Koi who found them without a scratch.

Without having to pay any price at all.

"There's nothing bad about it," Little Koi shook her head earnestly, "I was originally saved by you. If it weren't for you, I would have been killed by the Third Prince's men by now. Being able to find these Immortal Stones is only because I survived."

"Besides, I felt that you were smiling very happily when you took the Immortal Stones, and I like seeing you happy."

Little Koi blinked her watery, large eyes, staring fervently into Qin Xuan's deep gaze.

That scorching yet clear gaze managed to make Qin Xuan, this great villain, feel a bit uneasy.

Qin Xuan's heart skipped a beat.

He had been flirted with in return by the Daughter of Luck.

Definitely, absolutely, and certainly.

The key was that he currently had no cards to play.

Little Koi harbored no bad intentions, nor did she have any schemes; she truly just liked seeing him happy.

Even for someone like Qin Xuan, encountering such a pure and clear girl was a bit of a headache.

"Stop staring, give me the Immortal Stones. With these Immortal Stones, the time to refine the formation can be shortened by more than half!"

"The extra Immortal Stones are enough to let me return to my Peak state!"

"By then, with me at the Peak of the Saint King Realm, combined with the ancient prison-suppressing tower, who knows, there might be a one-in-one-hundred-thousand chance of escaping from the belly of the Kunpeng!"

Leng Li was impatient.

Seeing these hundreds of Immortal Stones, she truly saw the hope of returning to her Peak.

With these hundreds of Immortal Stones, it wouldn't take long before she could return to her Peak!

Qin Xuan rolled his eyes dramatically, "A one-in-one-hundred-thousand chance? You might as well just say you have no confidence."

Complaints aside, he did indeed need Leng Li to become stronger, and he needed that Soul Transfer Formation even more.

Without thinking, he counted the Immortal Stones—a total of five hundred and thirty-six—and tossed them all into the ancient prison-suppressing tower, handing them over to Leng Li.

He took Little Koi's delicate hand and said with a smile, "From now on, wherever you say we should go, that's where we'll go!"

Little Koi lowered her head and said without confidence, "I don't know which way to go either, I have no clue."

"It's okay, I believe in you." Qin Xuan squeezed Little Koi's palm, encouraging her.

It was hilarious.

It was as if he and Leng Li knew which way to go to get out.

Now was the time to rely entirely on luck.

With such a Little Koi whose Luck stat was maxed out by his side, there was no need for him and Leng Li to lead the way aimlessly.

"Let's go this way."

Little Koi pointed in one direction, then turned back to look at Qin Xuan, murmuring timidly, "I don't know if we can get out, I'm worried I'll cause you to take more unnecessary detours with me."

Qin Xuan shook his head, taking the Opportunity to joke, "It's fine, I trust you."

"Furthermore, you and I are one, linked as a couple—we share in glory and disaster, so why have so many worries?"

Little Koi's cheeks flushed red, and she leaned closer to Qin Xuan, letting out a soft hum.

That soft, delicate, and faint sound would have been impossible to hear if not for Qin Xuan's keen senses!

A day passed in the blink of an eye.

Inside the ancient prison-suppressing tower, Leng Li complained with lingering fear, "Just how vast is the inside of this Kunpeng? Could it be that a world has already formed within it? We have been driving the small tower at full speed; even if this Kunpeng were hundreds or thousands of miles huge, we should have reached the edge by now!"

"Yet, up until now, it is still 'vast and boundless,' and we are like headless flies, with nowhere to go!"

Little Koi hung her head, whispering dejectedly, "I'm sorry, it's all my fault for leading us the wrong way."

Qin Xuan let go of Little Koi's hand and reached out to wrap his arm around her slender waist.

Although Little Koi looked thin, holding her didn't feel bony at all; instead, she was as warm and smooth as fine jade.

In just a few days of contact, Qin Xuan had managed to get as close to Little Koi as possible.

From the beginning when she would be shy and want to break free just from holding hands, to now, even when he wrapped his arm around her, Little Koi would only blush and silently accept it.

"How can this be your fault? Don't blame yourself. Even someone as strong as Heavenly Demon Scale, a dignified Quasi-Emperor, is trapped here with no way to escape, let alone us."

Qin Xuan comforted her softly.

Just then, Leng Li pointed forward in surprise, "There's a light over there!"

"An exit?"

Qin Xuan drove the small tower, rushing forward at full speed.

A quarter of an hour later, the group, who had been inside the Kunpeng's belly, seemed to have arrived at a blessed land.

The surroundings were filled with hazy Immortal Qi. Above the blessed land, there were four burning 'bonfire' pillars, carved with lifelike Phoenixes that seemed to possess spirit, as if they would fly out from the statues in the next moment.

In the middle of the four bonfire pillars lay a giant bird's nest, constructed from ancient, mottled wooden branches.

Little Koi stared at the giant bird's nest, observing the special patterns on the wooden branches, and said in astonishment, "Primordial ripples, the embryonic form of the universe, spatial implications—these wooden branches were plucked from the World Tree. This is no ordinary avian nest; this is the True Phoenix Nest!"

"The saying 'Phoenix perches on Wutong' is just a metaphor; true Phoenixes only reside on the World Tree!"

Little Koi squeezed Qin Xuan's hand and urged, "Qin Xuan, I have seen it in the ancient books of the Mingyue Dynasty; I can be certain that this is the True Phoenix Nest. There might be the Legacy of the Phoenix Treasure Technique here, and those four fire pillars should be Pure Phoenix Flame!"

Qin Xuan's eyes widened in shock, and he subconsciously looked at Leng Li, who was hiding her appearance beside him.

A desolate, bitter smile appeared on Leng Li's face as she muttered to herself, "I was being self-righteous again."

Crazy!

Truly crazy!

She had thought that Qin Xuan saving Little Koi was just him asking for trouble and creating complications for himself.

Who could have imagined that they would be swallowed by a Kunpeng halfway?

And who could have imagined that inside the Kunpeng's belly, Little Koi would be able to find over five hundred Immortal Stones?

Even if she ran her brain until it smoked, she wouldn't dare to imagine that the True Phoenix Nest was actually inside the Kunpeng's belly.

No wonder the Holy Master of Yaochi, even after obtaining the Phoenix Treasure Technique, had no clue about the location of the True Phoenix Nest.

Even if she knew the location of the True Phoenix Nest, she wouldn't be able to get her hands on it no matter what she did.

Only someone as black-hearted as Qin Xuan could be Heaven-Defying enough to find the True Phoenix Nest inside the belly of a Kunpeng.

Right!

And it was all thanks to Little Koi. Leng Li seriously suspected that if it weren't for Little Koi's Heaven-Defying luck, they wouldn't have been swallowed by the Kunpeng, let alone found the location of the True Phoenix Nest.

"I originally thought you had taken a loss, but unexpectedly, by a stroke of luck, you found a great Opportunity!"

Leng Li shook her head with a bitter smile, "What are you still standing there for? Go to the True Phoenix Nest to comprehend it! The fire on those four pillars is the Origin fire of the Phoenix, which is countless times more Advanced than the Holy Master of Yaochi's Pure Phoenix Flame."

"Cultivating here, saying the Phoenix Treasure Technique would progress by leaps and bounds would be an understatement!"

Leng Li flew into the distance, feeling depressed, "I need to go into secluded cultivation for a while to refine the Immortal Stones!"

She finally understood that in this lifetime, she shouldn't even think about seeing Qin Xuan suffer a loss.

Even if she did see it, she would suspect that Qin Xuan had done it on purpose.

It was casting a long line to catch a big fish!

Qin Xuan stepped out of the small tower, feeling the Pure Phoenix Flame within him stirring restlessly. It was eager to rush to the True Phoenix Nest, like a married daughter returning to her parents' home.

He took Little Koi's hands and said seriously, "I also need to enter secluded cultivation to comprehend the True Phoenix Nest and the Origin fire."

A flash of surprise crossed Little Koi's eyes, but she immediately nodded and replied seriously, "I will be your Protector!"