As Madam Brulee looked at the hundred young faces below the stage, she put away the ranking list and said in a low voice, "There were a total of 100,852 participants in the 3499 Central Continent Selection Competition. Among them, 100 people entered the rankings, 45 people were banned for viting the rules, 100,705 people were eliminated, and two people went missing."
"Among them, participant Yu Huang and participant Sheng Xiao are considered to have forfeited because they missed thepetition. They won''t be able to participate in the Central Continent Selection Competition."
With that, Madam Brulee nced at the hundred young Beast Tamers below the stage as she said, "At two o''clock this afternoon, we will open the spatial tunnel from the Central Continent to Cang Lang City. Please be prepared!"
With that, Madam Brulee was about to leave.
At this moment, a hurricane blew past, while lightning suddenly shed and thunder rumbled in the sky.
Madam Brulee stopped in her tracks and looked up at the thunderous sky. She was surprised to see dark clouds gathering in the sky, as if a heavy rain was about to fall.
It had not rained in thousands of years. Was it finally going to rain?
When Dongshen Hanyu and the other local Beast Tamers heard the thunder, they also looked up at the sky.
"Is it going to rain?"
"It''s actually going to rain in Ice zing City!"
Boom!
Apanied by a muffled thunder, bean-sized raindrops suddenly fell from the dark clouds.
At first, there were only three to five raindrops. Then, there were more and more. Soon, it formed a torrential rain.
When the citizens of Ice zing City saw this rain, they were stunned.
It was only whenrge drops of rainnded on their faces and drenched their clothes that they realized that it was really raining!
It was raining in Ice zing City!
The citizens all ran out of their homes and stood on the street in the middle of the giant snake to celebrate. They shouted, "It''s raining! Prime Emperor Ice me once said that the day it rains in Ice zing City is the day our savior descends! Our savior is finally here!"
There was once an expert from the Divination Continent who visited the Cang Lang Continent and was invited by Prime Emperor Ice me as a guest.
The prophet had once imed that six thousand yearster, Ice zing City would wee their savior.
The day the rain poured down would be the day the savior descended.
Ice zing City, which had not rained for more than six thousand years, finally weed torrential rain.
Then, where was their savior?
"Look!" Ji Xianggua suddenly pointed at the desert and shouted in surprise, "There''s grass growing in the desert!"
Hearing this, everyone lowered their heads and looked in the direction Ji Xianggua was pointing at.
In the gap between the high tform and the desert, grass was growing out of the ground.
Madam Brulee walked to the edge of the high tform and lowered her eyes to nce at the young grass in the gap. Then, she fell silent.
For the past six thousand years, Ice zing City had never grown a single de of grass, so it was hailed as the Lifeless City of the Cang Lang Continent.
But this desert city had actually grown grass.
Could the prophecy from thousands of years ago be true?
When Ice zing City weed the heavy rain, it would be the time their savior descended?
* *
When Lin Jiansheng sensed that Yu Huang''s psychic aura had instantly spread throughout the entire Central Continent, a gratified smile appeared on his tired face.
"Level 8 Purifying Spirit Master…"
"Ah Huang, catch up to me quickly. This world belongs to you young people after all."
After saying that, Lin Jiansheng heard his stomach grumbling.
Damn, he had not eaten for half a month. He was so famished that he looked haggard.
Without another word, Lin Jiansheng sat down cross-legged and tore open a pack of self-heating hot pot to eat.
If Lin Jiansheng died one day, it would definitely be from starvation.
* *
Yu Huang retracted her psychic power and slowlynded.
She opened her eyes and looked up at the phoenix skeleton on the wall.
After the grievous energy dissipated, the mes on the phoenix skeleton gradually extinguished. Yu Huang could sense that the temperature in the air was rapidly cooling.
She walked towards the phoenix skeleton again. Just as her fingers touched the phoenix''s toe bone, she suddenly heard a call from ancient times—
"Divine Phoenix!"
Yu Huang suddenly retracted her hand. Her pupils quivered as she stared at the phoenix skeleton, and her eyes were filled with shock.
Divine Phoenix.
Divine Phoenix!
Yu Huang knew who the Divine Phoenix was.
In the Kunlun Mystic Realm''s Reincarnation Mirror, Senior Kunlun had mentioned this person to Senior Mo Jing.
He said, "In the past thousand years, Heartless Divine Master, Compassionate Divine Master, Undead Divine Masters, Blue Wolf Divine Master… These itinerant Divine Masters have all died for various reasons. Now, even the Divine Beast n''s Sky Dragon Divine Master and Phoenix Divine Master have died. Have you really never doubted it?"
Could it be that the owner of the phoenix skeleton in front of her was the Phoenix Divine Master that Kunlun had mentioned?
The Divine Master who was the strongest among the Divine Masters in the ancient era?
No wonder Ice zing City had been barren for thousands of years.
How could there be flora and fauna at the burial ground of the strongest Divine Master in the ancient era?
After knowing the true identity of this skeleton, Yu Huang immediately knelt in front of the skeleton and kowtowed three times respectfully. "I, a Divine Feather Phoenix awakener, Yu Huang, have disturbed the soul of the Phoenix Divine Master. Please don''t me me."
The phoenix skeleton was nailed to the wall by the Ice Crystal Marrow and its lowered head seemed to be staring at Yu Huang, but also seemed to be staring at all living beings.
It didn''t say anything, but it made people feel a sense of submission.
When Yu Huang saw that the Purifying Evil Phoenix me was still burning, she thought to herself, "If I don''t pull out these 108 Ice Crystal Marrow Nails and let them continue to nail Senior Divine Phoenix''s skeleton, they will still produce grievous energy in the long run."
Removing the 108 Ice Crystal Marrow Nails was the only way to free the phoenix.
At the thought of this, Yu Huang kowtowed to the Phoenix Divine Master again.
"Sorry!"
Yu Huang spread her phoenix wings and flew up. Then, she grabbed the Ice Crystal Marrow Nail in the middle of the phoenix skeleton''s chest bone.
Just as she held the Ice Crystal Marrow Nail in her hand, a bone-chilling coldness instantly surged into Yu Huang''s body and froze her blood vessels.
With her blood frozen, Yu Huang didn''t even have a way to circte her spiritual power.
This wasn''t an Ice Crystal Marrow Nail!
An Ice Crystal Marrow Nail wouldn''t have such powers. What was this?
"It''s a dragon bone." Sheng Xiao''s voice suddenly came from behind the crack.
Yu Huang was so cold that she turned purple. After she turned her head slowly, she saw Sheng Xiao flying down from the crack.
After half a month of recovery, Sheng Xiao''s bones hadpletely healed. However, he was worried about Yu Huang, so he came to look for her. Fortunately, Yu Huang and Lin Jiansheng sessfully purified the phoenix skeleton. After they dissolved the grievous energy, they weakened the burning power of the Purifying Evil Phoenix me.
Since the temperature dropped quickly, it wasn''t difficult for Sheng Xiao to reach here.
Just as he emerged from the small crack, he saw Yu Huang pulling out the dragon bone.
"Dragon bone?" Yu Huang felt incredulous. "How can this be a dragon bone?"
Sheng Xiao flew to Yu Huang''s side. As soon as he hugged her slender waist, the cold air that froze Yu Huang''s blood dissipated.
Yu Huang quickly let go of the ''Ice Crystal Marrow'' and looked up at Sheng Xiao. Her heart skipped a beat when she saw Sheng Xiao frowning at the ''Ice Crystal Marrow''.
Sheng Xiao looked at the dragon bone and said with an impassive expression, "The body of a dragon has 108 long bones. The dragon bone turns into ice when it encounters fire. It''s the nemesis of phoenixes. I think that''s why it''s said that the Divine Feather Phoenix and the ck Qing Sky Dragon are natural nemeses."
When he ced his hand on the dragon bone and sensed the aura of his kind, he said with even more certainty, "I''m not mistaken. This is the dragon bone."
He had Yu Aofeng''s memories, so it was impossible for him to mistake the dragon bone.
Back then, when Yu Aofeng was imprisoned in the Phoenix n as a ve, he had seen this kind of thing more than once.
At that time, every time the Phoenix n won, they would capture a ck Qing Sky Dragon alive to celebrate. They would eat the flesh of the ck Qing Sky Dragon and nail its dragon bone to the wall to show off their victory and motivate their nsmen.
In the entire Phoenix n, Prime Emperor Ze An''s residence had the most dragon bones. As for Young Master Jing Huang''s residence, not a single dragon bone could be seen.
Whenever Jing Huang was provoked by Yu Aofeng, she would pretend to be fierce as she threatened him: Yu Aofeng, I will pull out your tendons, peel off your skin, and nail your dragon bone to the wall!
In the entire world, Jing Huang spoke the harshest to him, but she loved him the most.
At the thought of Jing Huang, Sheng Xiao looked down at Yu Huang and the hatred in his heart dissipated.
He said, "This dragon bone was clearly nailed here on purpose by someone with ulterior motives. His intentions are extremely vicious." That person had deliberately used the dragon bone to nail the Divine Phoenix Master. Not only would it arouse hatred between the two races, but it was also a trap for the people of the Divine Phoenix n who would save the Divine Phoenix Master in the future.
Without Sheng Xiao, Yu Huang would have been seriously injured today.
The mastermind had probably never expected that the ck Qing Sky Dragon would love the Divine Feather Phoenix, his nemesis, so deeply.
He had schemed time and time again, but overlooked the power of love.