Two Worlds: Demonic Cultivator with His Zombie Materials

Boom!

A surging aura exploded instantly, and the lifeless Phoenix Egg burst into flames, half silver light and half fire. Two completely different powers mixed violently, forming a dazzling light centered on red flames and edged with silver.

The entire surface of the Phoenix Egg trembled, and a terrifying aura soared into the sky, causing chaos in the surrounding space.

Soon after, the aura converged, and the Phoenix Egg returned to tranquility, but the brilliance flowing over it revealed an extraordinary effect.

At this moment, Zheng Yi stepped forward, and his figure gradually blurred. The light outside his flesh and blood body became increasingly intense, slowly transforming into a humanoid light of life.

He took another step forward into the giant Phoenix Egg. In an instant, it was as if infinite light penetrated into it, gradually disappearing.

When the light dissipated, Zheng Yi’s figure was no longer there. He had entered the Phoenix Egg, using its immense divine power to begin a second Nirvana.

Time flew by and vanished in an instant.

Everything returned to silence, everything returned to peace.

For cultivators, time is like a fleeting moment. A single retreat often requires several years.

"A day in the mountain, a thousand years in the world."

This saying is not merely words, especially for truly high-level cultivators. Often pondering a cultivation secret technique, they might seclude themselves for a period, during which four generations of a mortal family might have been born.

The same was true for Zheng Yi now.

In the blink of an eye, nine years passed.

The repercussions from Zheng Yi’s battle against the Dragon Emperor Divinity Transformation of the Flood Dragon Imperial Court in the vast East Sea had not yet fully subsided.

The huge scars and fallen rules still existed, becoming a site for many cultivators of the East Origin Sea Region to explore and observe.

Everyone thought Zheng Yi sought a secret place to heal or might be cultivating on the floating Azure Waves Island, not knowing he quietly arrived at a remote small island.

Apart from a couple of dozen Celestial Demon Army members responsible for the island’s guard and safety.

No one knew Zheng Yi had stayed on Taihua Island for nine years.

The Phoenix Egg, which had turned into a dead embryo, was inspired by Zheng Yi’s powerful Divine Soul to trigger the final Nirvana Divinity. Zheng Yi integrated himself with the Dao, using the characteristics of the Innate Origin Divine Body to embark on the journey of Nirvana once more.

This time, he aimed to reach the Late Stage of Nascent Soul.

Unless it was the Pure-blooded Phoenix Race, other beings with Phoenix Bloodline who tried to force Nirvana and transform their bloodline found it extremely difficult, bordering on nine deaths and one survival, with a very low success rate.

Just like Fan Xian’Er’s Nirvana back then, ending up as a dead egg.

But Zheng Yi was different. He was not trying to inherit the Phoenix Bloodline but rather using this divine power to stimulate his Innate Origin Divine Body, enhance his realm, and reach the Late Stage of Nascent Soul.

Even Zheng Yi dared to undergo Nirvana only because he had his Incense Fire Dharma Body, Taiyue Divine Venerable, to protect him, with a degree of self-preservation ability.

The success rate of Nirvana Techniques is so low that even Zheng Yi had to be cautious and dared not attempt it lightly.

In nine years, the originally gray-green shell of the Phoenix Egg had long transformed into a fiercely burning life flame enveloped in flames, containing faint silvery white light flowing amidst the spreading tongues of flame.

Those silver lights embedded at the edge of the flames shimmered with a metallic texture, imbued with mysterious Dao Patterns, unable to be cleansed even in the blazing fire.

The scorching flames licked the air, distorting and deforming even the Void Space, with turbulent heat waves pounding the chamber, making one feel as if engulfed in a furnace’s rolling heat.

The heat, burning, and scorching sensation were so intense that if any other cultivator tried to cultivate in this space, they would feel as if their body might turn to ashes in this scorching environment at any moment.

Invisible air waves continually surged from the surface of the Phoenix Egg, their oscillating ripples permeating the space, influencing the surrounding environment more and more.

Even beneath the sea floor of Taihua Island, countless sea fish grew to enormous sizes due to the powerful Phoenix Nirvana Flame, resembling Deep Sea Giants.

Stepping into the outer space of the entire island was also affected, with the terrifying aura and scorching temperature causing distortions.

All around, massive waves rose from all directions, crashing towards the center.

Fortunately, sensing something was wrong with the island’s aura, the remaining Celestial Demon Army began to withdraw, daring only to patrol the periphery.

Otherwise, with Zheng Yi transforming into the Phoenix Egg and reaching this critical point of transformation, even under this terrible momentum, it could have shattered the entire Celestial Demon Army.

Thirty meters underground at the center of Taihua Island.

In the secret chamber, as the Nirvana Flame on the surface of the Phoenix Egg brightened, the burning temperature rapidly increased.

The crimson flames burst with countless streams of light, resembling tentacles growing out and disrupting the surrounding space, making the already unstable Void Space even more chaotic and tumultuous.

"Screech!"

At this moment, as if a bloodline awoke, a lofty, noble cry filled with grandeur ascended from the void. In an instant, it seemed to transcend heavy history and descend upon this spatial node.

Above the Phoenix Egg, a mass of fiery void light suddenly soared upward.

Fixated on it, amidst the turbulent winds and clouds in the outside world, at the center of Taihua Island, the aura abruptly transformed, countless layers of clouds were pulled in, forming a massive vortex, gradually stretching across dozens of miles, exuding a terrifying deterrent force.

A phoenix with outstretched wings soared upward, accompanied by swirling flames covering the entire top of the vortex, luxuriously flicking seven radiant feathers burning with the Life Flame.

With the flapping of the enormous phoenix shadow’s wings, the aura belonging to the Divine Phoenix sharply rose, and the slightly flapping wings easily tore open the surrounding space, revealing an immensely vast dark void space.

Yet even the terrifying darkness, seemingly capable of absorbing all light, could not obscure the fiery posture of the burning Phoenix Flame, the flames wildly splattering into the darkness, soaring high into the void beyond.

The noble and bright cry of the phoenix echoed in the void, dropping two pairs of sky-obscuring wings, enveloping half the sky, causing the entire Taihua Island to dim instantly.

After a long time, a bright light suddenly emerged from the depths of the darkness.

Leaving a long trail of flame in the dark, so fast it stirred up a gale in the space, the space violently trembling like ripples.

Bang!

Fiery sparks splashed, the fierce wind whistled.

In an instant, the originally towering flames dragged by the phoenix feathers, up to hundreds of feet high, disappeared, leaving only billowing heat waves rapidly spreading.

Amidst the darkness, only the Phoenix Egg remained illuminating the chamber.

Within the red light, splendid patterns emerged on the surface of the Phoenix Egg, gradually lighting up. Upon closer inspection, these patterns seemed like mysterious characters constantly emitting a peculiar aura.

If one stared at it for a long time, they would feel as though those bright and colorful patterns could seize one’s spirit, irresistibly drawing one’s Heart Spirit into it.

Clearly, the patterns appearing on the Phoenix Egg were out of the ordinary.

They were the legendary Dragon and Phoenix Pattern, containing the mystical essence of the Phoenix.

The patterns revealed on the Phoenix Egg’s surface were largely missing, indicating that this Phoenix Egg’s bloodline was impure.

In fact, these patterns are also one of the Great Dao the Phoenix evolved, related to the purity of the Phoenix Blood.

As one of the most ancient and powerful Divine Beast True Spirits between heaven and earth, the Phoenix itself represents a part of the Path of Heaven and Earth. Therefore, its bloodline evolves into intricate patterns, embodying a certain will of Heaven and Earth.

Unfortunately, over the long ages, pure-blooded Phoenixes have long vanished.

Even the Phoenixes emerging in different eras in later generations, including the now legendary overseas Phoenix Cry Island, are merely descendants of the extremely thin bloodline left by the true Phoenixes.

The gap with the true True Spirit Phoenix is as great as the difference between cloud and mud.

Incomparable.

But in fact, the Phoenix Egg that Fan Xian’Er transformed into through Nirvana Rebirth is already considered mostly successful, yet she fell at the most critical step on the road to success.

Otherwise, if it could truly take form, at the level of bloodline within this Phoenix Egg, it could even go to Phoenix Cry Island to vie for the position of the bloodline master.

This could be considered a slight atavism.

Therefore, Zheng Yi’s choice of it as the foundation for seizing the Dao was not without reason.

However, the difficulty of seizing the Phoenix Divinity exceeded his expectations.

Even with the characteristics of his Innate Origin Divine Body, he temporarily fell into a bottleneck, with the two divine powers in a stalemate, unable to make a breakthrough in the short term.

In the chamber, all the flame condensed from the Phoenix Egg retracted, being reabsorbed into the eggshell.

The original shell was already covered in complex and clear patterns, with glaring white lines moving across the surface, like slender white flood dragons, constantly flowing along the edge of the flames.

The two sides were incompatible, yet symbiotic, producing some mysterious transformation.

Clearly, these two distinctly different colors, white and red, represented two different divine powers.

"Crack, crack!"

With the crisp sound of the shell shattering, cracks appeared on the hardened surface of the Phoenix Egg, unknown since when, spreading like a spider web.

Initially quite slight, but as time passed, the cracks deepened, gradually becoming clear.

After nine years of self-conceived Nirvana, Zheng Yi’s forced seizure of the Nirvana Divinity of the Phoenix Egg finally made a critical breakthrough at this moment.

Ultimately, when those cracks spread throughout the entire eggshell, reaching their extreme.

The entire Phoenix Egg shell completely shattered.

In an instant, a blinding white light burst out from within, like an incandescent sun rising, dazzling enough to blind anyone’s eyes.