The scene was silent.
Everyone was stunned into silence.
A towering wave of shock surged through each of them.
They simply couldn't believe that Feng Wu, whose physical prowess was renowned, had been kicked by Chen Nan, spitting blood and sent flying backward.
This was a difficult pill for them to swallow.
So much so that.
Many people thought they were hallucinating.
If anyone were to be kicked flying between the two, they believed it should have been Chen Nan.
Not Feng Wu.
For a moment.
Many people rubbed their eyes.
But the result made their scalps tingle and sent a shiver down their spines.
The one who was kicked flying was indeed Feng Wu.
The strongest among the younger generation of the Phoenix Tribe.
Not Chen Nan, whom they had underestimated!
"You want to compete with me in physique?"
"Why must you challenge my strongest domain?" A trace of disdain flickered in Chen Nan's eyes.
"You possess the legendary Ancient Desolate Sacred Body?" Feng Jiu exclaimed.
As soon as these words were spoken.
A wave of cheers erupted from the crowd.
Feng Wu already possessed a rare innate fire spiritual body, let alone being tempered by True Phoenix blood later on.
To put it bluntly.
Few could crush him in terms of physique, past or present.
And the Ancient Desolate Sacred Body was definitely one of them.
"I haven't heard this name in a long time!" Chen Nan murmured.
"Even if you possess the Ancient Desolate Sacred Body, so what? Do you think you can defeat me?" Feng Wu, enraged, unleashed a terrifying aura.
In the void behind him, the phantom of a True Phoenix appeared.
It was a hundred meters long. Although merely a phantom, it exuded the haughty presence of a True Phoenix, looking down upon all beings.
It gave off a powerful sense of oppression.
Making it difficult for people to even breathe normally.
"Feng Wu, don't be rash!" Feng Jiu's expression changed drastically. He never expected Feng Wu to be so enraged that he would try to kill Chen Nan.
"He pushed me too far!"
Feng Wu's eyes were bloodshot.
The next moment.
The True Phoenix phantom in the air let out a piercing cry.
*Weng weng weng!*
The void trembled incessantly.
The True Phoenix phantom transformed into a streak of red light and directly entered Chen Nan's brow.
"You, you... why did you try to kill him?" Feng Jiu's face turned ashen with anger. He had wanted to use the Five Birds Fan to stop him, but it was too late. He could only watch the tragedy unfold.
Others also looked on with pity.
The True Phoenix Art was a soul attack.
It was an extremely powerful divine ability.
Let alone Chen Nan, who was only at the lower God Sovereign realm.
Even a higher God Sovereign would find it difficult to resist.
Feng Wu gritted his teeth and said, "This Chen fellow has gone too far. If I don't kill him, I won't be able to quell my anger!" As he spoke, he formed a hand seal, intending to recall his True Phoenix Art.
After all, it was a divine ability he had unleashed with his soul power, not a one-time technique.
However.
He was shocked to discover.
His True Phoenix Art seemed to have vanished like a stone into the sea.
He then let out a heart-wrenching scream: "Impossible!"
"Impossible!"
"My True Phoenix Art is an immortal divine ability."
"How can you possibly devour my True Phoenix Art?"
His hair was disheveled, and he spat out a mouthful of scarlet blood.
Chen Nan showed a disdainful smile: "Only you know the True Phoenix Art?"
*Yo!*
Accompanied by a piercing phoenix cry that reached the heavens.
A phantom of a phoenix, ten thousand meters long, appeared behind Chen Nan.
It blotted out the sun and the sky.
Lifelike.
Although it was just a phantom, it showed signs of becoming tangible.
A terrifying pressure swept down from the depths of the nine heavens, causing the bloodlines of the Phoenix Tribe members to burn and a sense of suffocating tightness to grip them.
"This is the aura of an ancient Phoenix Ancestor!" Feng Jiu's eyes welled up with tears. He immediately prostrated himself on the ground and cried out to Chen Nan, "Sinner of the Phoenix Tribe, Feng Wu, pays respects to the Holy Lord!"
"Pays respects to the Holy Lord!"
Everyone else also knelt down in devotion.
Even Feng Wu did so.
Although they were members of the Phoenix Tribe and had inherited the legacy of the True Phoenix.
Chen Nan, however, possessed the aura of the Phoenix Ancestor.
Let alone these people.
Even the True Phoenix they worshipped would have to bow deeply to Chen Nan.
Chen Nan hadn't expected the people of the Phoenix Tribe to be connected to the fortune he had obtained, which was quite surprising.
He looked at Feng Wu, "Are you convinced now?"
"Holy Lord, please spare me. This junior is utterly convinced and full of remorse." Feng Wu lowered his head in shame.
Chen Nan: "Then can I leave with the Five Birds Fan?"
Feng Wu swallowed nervously, "Let alone the Five Birds Fan, the entire Phoenix Tribe is at the Holy Lord's command."
"Alright, you may all rise!" Chen Nan said faintly, then released Feng Wu's True Phoenix Art. Although the fellow's soul power was not weak.
He had not degenerated to the point of seizing another's soul power.
"Thank you, Holy Lord! Thank you, Holy Lord!" Feng Wu was filled with gratitude.
Chen Nan looked at Feng Jiu, "You called yourself a sinner earlier, what did you mean by that?"
He knew.
Feng Jiu's self-appellation was not because Feng Wu had offended him.
Feng Jiu, trembling, knelt down again, his eyes filled with pain. "To be perfectly frank, Holy Lord, when the invading demons attacked the Triple Heaven ten thousand years ago, if our Phoenix Clan had fought them with the resolve to die, we would have had a fifty percent chance of annihilating the demons."
"However, the price of victory would have been mutual destruction!"
"But..."
"But..."
"I didn't want to see my kin fall in battle."
"So I brought my clan here."
"I thought I would enhance the clan's strength first, and then annihilate the demons in one fell swoop."
"But I truly never imagined that after ten thousand years, the demon race would become so vast."
"This old servant is guilty!"
"Deserves death a thousand times over!"
"Please, Holy Lord, punish me!"
He prostrated himself on the ground and wailed.
Looking at the ancient figure weeping on his knees before him, Chen Nan said softly, "If I were in your position, I would have made the same choice."
"The only thing we can do is to assess the current situation and make the most prudent choice at this moment."
"Who can truly know what the future holds?"
"You."
"Are blameless!"
Chen Nan's words, rather than comforting Feng Jiu, made him cry even more heartbrokenly.
Because over the past three thousand years, he had learned from observing the outside world that the demon race was growing stronger and stronger.
He also knew what his choice back then meant for the Triple Heaven.
He regretted it.
His heart was tormented.
Chen Nan's words, however, had absolved him.
"Enough, stop crying!" Chen Nan said with a hint of displeasure. "Since you have a heart of repentance, then use your actions to achieve self-redemption!"
Feng Jiu wiped the tears from his face, his eyes firm. "The entire Phoenix Tribe awaits the Holy Lord's command!"
Chen Nan took out his immortal abode. "I need to harvest the Phoenix Grass. After harvesting it, I will find a way to break through the encirclement. Until then, you will all live within the immortal abode!"
"Yes!"
Feng Jiu respectfully agreed and then led his clan into the immortal abode.
Chen Nan then looked at the humanoid demon, Ji Wu, who stood nearby, and grinned. "Come, let's go back and report!"