Chapter 2339 - 2337: Phoenix Nirvana

Lu Ye had no way to gauge Qi's strength. The strongest person he had seen so far, excluding Jiu Ying, was that ancestor Moon Howl who projected his power from Edgeless City.

But just looking at the means Qi used to send them back here, Moon Howl wasn't even qualified to carry her shoes.

If such a strong person wanted to manipulate two little Dao Fusion cultivators, who could detect it?

But Lu Ye couldn't understand why Qi would do such a thing. What benefit could it bring her?

The tide of desire began to crash against his reason, each wave stronger than the last. Lu Ye knew something was terribly wrong!

Under normal circumstances, any abnormal intrusions detrimental to oneself inside his body would be rapidly incinerated by the Talent Tree, but the dark trick left by Qi was clearly not something the Talent Tree could eliminate in a short time.

At this moment, under his observation, thick black smoke was rising from the Talent Tree, and its fuel was being consumed at a terrifying speed.

He didn't know if he could control himself before the Talent Tree completely incinerated this abnormality.

But it wasn't just this—crucially, Su Yan's condition was even worse than his.

The previous charged attack had almost exhausted Su Yan completely, with her mind greatly spent. Under such circumstances, her predicament was undoubtedly a hundred times worse than his.

She did not have a Talent Tree...

Once this fire of desire is slightly provoked, it might just burn everything upside down!

Lu Ye immediately looked around, no matter what happens next, he had to find a hiding place quickly.

Soon he found a desolate planet and hurriedly led Su Yan towards it.

"Senior Brother Lu..." that soft voice reached his ears again, and Lu Ye shivered all over, almost unable to control himself, the hand he was holding felt softer than ever.

Before the thought even finished, Su Yan pressed against him, her face flushed as she squeezed against Lu Ye, almost as if trying to merge into his body. Clearly on the verge of losing her reason, she still retained a sliver of clarity and tremulously said, "Listen to me, that Star Abyss Heir... is not a good thing!"

"What?" Lu Ye's mouth was dry, and even his thoughts were affected, making it hard to concentrate.

For a cultivator at his level, this was simply unimaginable.

"Qi... was once the Star Abyss Heir," Su Yan's delicate red lips whispered softly into Lu Ye's ear.

Lu Ye's heart trembled as he suddenly remembered that Su Yan had once told him the blessing of the Star Abyss was not a good thing. He knew about the anomaly of the Star Abyss Blessing through the reaction of the Talent Tree, but he did not know from what channel Su Yan had learned about it. It was evident Su Yan understood the Star Abyss far more deeply than he did.

"Qi is... an ancestor of my race... recorded in ancient texts..." Su Yan's words came intermittently.

Lu Ye's face was covered in her saliva, even his mouth was blocked.

Yet she kept finding opportunities to relay the things she knew.

Finally reaching that desolate planet, there was no time to search; Lu Ye directly slashed out with his blade, carving a deep trench in front, and dove into the bottom, blasting a pit on the side, dragging Su Yan along with him.

Suddenly, he turned around and realized with shock that one of his large hands had unwittingly climbed a towering peak.

Su Yan's expression was strange, whether in pain or something else, she was already hanging onto him.

"The moment I first saw her... I felt she carried the bloodline of my race, yet she... didn't recognize me; she's already a puppet!"

Puppet!

Whose puppet?

Could someone as strong as Qi still become someone's puppet?

A moment of clarity in his mind made Lu Ye's blood run cold with dread.

"It is a will... it wants to be born. After countless years, every Star Abyss Heir that grows becomes its target."

Su Yan's words continued, haltingly.

The clothing was completely torn apart.

Within that desolate planet, endless allure and chaos thrived.

With a surprised cry, Su Yan threw her head back, tears streaming from her eyes, her skin flushed.

After several breaths, her voice reached him again: "But it didn't succeed... so it has to choose another way, this time... a man and a woman become Star Abyss Heirs. If they can birth offspring, that's its chance!"

"So we absolutely can't... let it..."

"My original plan was to kill you after the fight was over..."

"Senior Brother Lu, you must not let it control you!"

...

Lu Ye never thought that he would one day be affected to this extent by an abnormality invading his body.

But the dark trick left by Qi was too powerful, beyond what the Talent Tree could resolve in a short time.

If he were alone, he might still suppress his desires, but Su Yan's various provocations rendered him powerless.

Several days had passed since Lu Ye left that stellar space fragment. Below the trench of that desolate planet, he sat cross-legged, as the black smoke rising from the Talent Tree gradually dissipated. This undoubtedly meant that Qi's dark trick had been thoroughly resolved.

He opened his eyes, his gaze immediately focused on the near distance, on an egg about half a man tall, entirely golden, covered with complex patterns.

The Su Yan who had experienced a romantic encounter with him a few days ago was nowhere to be found—or rather, Su Yan was inside the egg.

During the previous events, although his rationality was devoured by desire, his memory did not vanish, so he clearly remembered what happened at that time.

When Su Yan revealed everything she knew, she then performed one of her Innate Divine Abilities.

Phoenix Nirvana Technique!

He saw with his own eyes as golden flames ignited on Su Yan's body, and then she transformed into this phoenix egg.

During the last battle that day, Lu Ye actually realized Su Yan's background, Phoen Tribe!

Like the Dragon Race, both are mythical races.

Lu Ye had seen the Dragon Race, Yang Qing was a member of the Dragon Race, but he didn't expect to have the fortune to meet a pure Phoen Tribe, and to have cooperated hand-in-hand for such a long time.

Su Yan did not possess a Talent Tree, she couldn't dispel the dark trick left by Qi, if she wanted to escape that state, she could only achieve rebirth through Nirvana, otherwise, for a long period in the future, she would become a person controlled endlessly by desire.

The noble Phoen Tribe would never tolerate turning into such a state.

In fact, if she didn't need to tell Lu Ye certain things, she could have performed the Nirvana Technique upon realizing the anomaly and thus rid herself from it.

Lu Ye did not have much understanding of the Nirvana Technique of the Phoen Tribe, but such Nirvana could definitely dissolve all discomfort.

A well and good member of the Phoen Tribe turned into an egg, Lu Ye also wasn't sure when Su Yan could revive, and what she would be like after revival.

Could she possibly turn into a baby?

Su Yan undoubtedly trusted him greatly, otherwise she wouldn't have performed the Nirvana Technique in front of him, because at this moment Su Yan had little power to resist, and if Lu Ye harbored any ill intentions, he could easily kill her.

Of course, Lu Ye would never do such a thing.

He pondered, recalling the news Su Yan had left during that frenzied period.

Qi was also a member of the Phoen Tribe, so Su Yan could sense the Bloodline within her, but such a senior and powerful member of the Phoen Tribe turned into a puppet.

Reflecting on Qi's performance during those several months, Lu Ye felt that Su Yan was right, Qi indeed was a puppet. He hadn't realized this earlier because Qi was too strong.

Are all the Star Abyss Heirs mere embodiments of that intent?

But after countless years of attempts without success, it chose another method.

And this method was so similar to the way his Dao Body was born, both nurtured through a mother.

Therefore, in this selection of Star Abyss Heirs, ultimately only a male and female survived. The Star Abyss Heirs selected in this way, not necessarily the strongest in this generation of Dao Fusion, but definitely among the top, perfectly suited for nurturing offspring.

Further, with the dark trick left by Qi, once successful in gaining pregnancy, the opportunity for that intent arises.

Additionally, to become a candidate for the Star Abyss Heir, the most basic requirement is to have received the Star Abyss Blessing more than once, and whenever the blessing descends, some anomaly would invade the body.

Once or twice is no big deal, but when the number increases, this accumulated anomaly in the body would trigger what consequences?

Lu Ye had never really understood what these anomalies were, solely judging from the state of those enemies before, these anomalies seemed to have no special impact on them either.

But now Lu Ye vaguely speculated…

These anomalies are likely the foundation for birth.

Because once becoming a Star Abyss Heir, the chances of receiving blessings increase too, one after another Star Abyss Blessing, incrementally establishing the foundation for birth, and upon reaching a certain degree, it would be accomplished.

Looking at it this way, all cultivators who have received Star Abyss Blessing have been secretly influenced by that intent, though none have realized it.

Moreover, normally, that intent doesn't affect these cultivators.

But if you think bigger, cultivators who receive Star Abyss Blessing are undoubtedly elites of all levels.

Doesn't this mean that the entire elite of Star Abyss is in a state of being influenced yet unaware?

Lu Ye's scalp tingled slightly.

Yet he was an exception, a special case, under the power of incineration from the Talent Tree, he could maintain his purity.

Would carrying on like this draw attention from that intent?

No, if it would cause attention, it would have done so long ago, even saying, that Level 7 might have already taken action personally to kill him, because he is forever uncontrollable.

Since he still lived, it meant he hadn't drawn attention.

Ultimately, although that intent permeated every corner of Star Abyss, it is not a being with spiritual intelligence, merely an immense and vast intent.

Realizing this, Lu Ye let out a slight breath of relief.

If so, he shouldn't be in much danger.

Glancing once again at the phoenix egg before him, Lu Ye sighed inwardly.

This time he really escaped death because Su Yan always planned to kill the final Star Abyss Heir.

If she willed it, in that stellar space fragment, she could have succeeded easily, because due to the exotic treasure Lover's Knot, her life and death were bound with Lu Ye's.

Then, she would only need to sacrifice herself, and Lu Ye would have to follow in death.

The Phoen Tribe can be reborn through Nirvana; he, however, doesn't have such ability.