400: Old friend, Nirvana?

Upon hearing this news, Chen De was a bit stunned.

A group of human forces sought out demon beast forces to go fight other human forces.

What was originally a perfectly fine internal conflict among humans might now turn into treason.

Indeed, human potential is limitless.

In the face of a life-or-death crisis, there's nothing that can't be done.

However, Chen De felt that this request for aid was very likely to succeed.

Everyone understood the principle of 'when the lips are gone, the teeth are cold.' Once the Shenwu Empire took over the Western Xuan Domain and completely integrated the power of the Four Domains, it might not hesitate to act against the Southern Xuan Domain.

Looking at the Shenwu Empire's current state, it seemed to have the momentum to unify all Five Domains.

At that point, the Demon Domain would be in danger.

Now, Chen De noticed the tense atmosphere within the Calamity Ash Nirvana Phoenix Clan, and this was the reason.

Chen De didn't care whether the Demon Domain intervened or not; it had nothing to do with him anyway.

The Demon Domain had Venerables and Sovereigns backing it, and so did the Shenwu Empire, otherwise it wouldn't have stood for so many years.

By the end of their fight, some of them would probably have to make an appearance.

Worst case, he would just side with whichever party won in the end.

If the humans won, he was human; if the demons won, he was a demon—it was that simple.

After understanding the current situation, Chen De planned to leave the Phoenix Clan's territory and the Southern Xuan Domain.

With such a major event happening, he needed to return to the Eastern Profound Domain to check on things.

He needed to see what was happening with the Qianyuan Sect, whether it had been pacified or destroyed.

After all, it was just a small sect; it might rank in a single province, but it was nothing in a domain, and in the entire Four Profound Heavens, it was just a small fry.

News of a force of that level could not possibly reach the Southern Xuan Domain.

At most, it would be a brief mention that the Shenwu Empire suddenly launched an attack, and many forces with low-level Heavenly Imperial Realm experts were annihilated.

They could only be roughly tallied, not singled out.

"Feng Jiang, Phoenix Empress wants you to come over."

At this moment, a clear, cold female voice came from outside, devoid of emotion, neither joy nor sorrow.

Chen De turned his head to look; it was a woman wearing a mask, with only her eyes visible.

Her gaze was like a deep, ancient well, without the slightest ripple, yet Chen De could discern a bone-deep hatred in the depths of her eyes.

This hatred was certainly not directed at him, or rather, not at the original owner of his current body.

It was just that the hatred in her heart was too deep, too profound, immersing her in it at all times.

A woman living, sustained by hatred!

This was Chen De's assessment of her; he didn't know what had happened to this woman to harbor such deep-seated animosity.

The moment she successfully avenged herself might be the day she died.

"Understood, Saintess!" Chen De responded.

Saintess—actually, before this, he didn't know the Phoenix Clan had a Saintess.

Even Feng Jiang's memories indicated that this so-called Saintess seemed to have appeared out of nowhere.

About eighty or ninety years ago, this Saintess was suddenly brought out by the Phoenix Empress and Phoenix King.

And declared to be the Phoenix Clan's Saintess, the successor to the next Phoenix Empress.

This was already quite outrageous, but even more outrageous was that her cultivation was at Demon Emperor Realm sixth layer from the start, and her bloodline purity was even higher than the Phoenix Empress's.

Thus, the Phoenix Clan's demons quickly accepted the Saintess's existence.

They believed this was the Phoenix Clan's new prodigy, cultivated after Huang Xue's death.

But at this moment, Chen De looked at the Saintess before him and realized something.

"Let's go now, Phoenix Empress is waiting," the Saintess urged.

After speaking, she turned and walked in a certain direction, not even glancing at Chen De.

She was doing all of this purely as a task to be fulfilled.

"Yes."

Chen De nodded in agreement. Although Feng Jiang was at the seventh layer and the Saintess at the sixth, within the Phoenix Clan, the Feng (male phoenix) was inherently less powerful than the Huang (female phoenix). The Saintess's bloodline was also much stronger than his, so if they truly fought, Feng Jiang might not necessarily win.

Coupled with the Saintess's much higher status than Feng Jiang, and Feng Jiang's intention to maintain good relations with her, he was quite cooperative with her words.

Chen De moved alongside the Saintess.

He had already figured out that this so-called Saintess was actually Huang Xue.

After all, Chen De's current strength far surpassed Huang Xue's.

As long as he wanted to know, Huang Xue absolutely couldn't hide it.

However, how did Huang Xue survive back then?

After much thought, he came up with a possibility—Nirvana!

The Calamity Ash Nirvana Phoenix was called that precisely because it possessed the ability of Nirvana.

Chen De also had this ability, but he might never be able to use it.

Because the trigger mechanism for Nirvana conflicted somewhat with the black liquid.

Only those much, much stronger than him could pose a life threat to Chen De.

If such a figure made a move, Chen De would undoubtedly be reduced to dust; how could he perform Nirvana then?

As for being critically ill, the existence of the black liquid made it impossible for him to be critically ill.

The current Chen De only had two states: life and death; there was no such thing as being critically ill, not even getting injured.

So, the talent of Nirvana was essentially wasted on him; he would never have a chance to trigger it again.

Looking at Huang Xue's current appearance, a hint of heartache flashed in Chen De's eyes.

If he hadn't failed to save Ao Qi back then, Huang Xue wouldn't have ended up in this state now.

Ultimately, Chen De decided to give this old acquaintance some small compensation, considering it a resolution of the karma between them.

So, he spread his hand, and a mark silently flew onto Huang Xue's body.

And all of this went unnoticed by any demon, including Huang Xue herself.

As for the subsequent meeting with the Phoenix Empress, Chen De had no interest; he wasn't lacking attribute points now.

The reason he lingered for a while was merely a sense of emotion upon seeing an old acquaintance.

Halfway through, Chen De's main body unknowingly detached itself.

He needed to go to the Eastern Profound Domain first to see if the Qianyuan Sect was still there and if he could find it.

Next, with Chen De's current strength, which surpassed that of a Venerable, he rapidly crossed two domains to reach the Qianyuan Sect's location.

Here, Chen De was impressed that Sect Leader Qian Chang was indeed pragmatic; the sect had actually been preserved.

Clearly, this was the result of being pacified by the Empire.

Chen De walked in, and Sect Leader Qian Chang happened to be absent. So, after consecutively enlightening several people,

He learned that Sect Leader Qian Chang had answered the Empire's summons and gone to fight in the Western Xuan Domain.

Originally, Chen De sought Sect Leader Qian Chang because, as the Sect Master, he had the deepest understanding of Heaven and Earth Qian Yuan and should be able to provide him with some references.

Since he wasn't there, Chen De used all the people in the Qianyuan Sect who practiced Heaven and Earth Qian Yuan as references.

By enlightening just one person, he obtained the complete cultivation method for Heaven and Earth Qian Yuan.

Subsequent enlightenments were purely for brainstorming and mutual verification.

After obtaining what he wanted, Chen De left these enlightened people behind.

He'd keep them for now; perhaps they would be useful later.

It didn't matter if they weren't; they were equally useless following him now.

Subsequently, Chen De rushed to the entrance of the Four Profound Heavens.

The location was still the same, unchanged.

Except for the wild small worlds that didn't move on their own, most other small worlds with Sovereigns were in motion.

Perhaps only the Earth Immortal Realm dared to openly reveal its coordinates to the entire world.