346: Chapter 346 Eight Phoenix Maidens

Time flies.

In the blink of an eye, Su Chen was already nine and a half years old.

There were only six months left before his tenth birthday, which loomed like a death warrant.

Even Su Chen could feel the atmosphere in the cave becoming increasingly oppressive day by day.

Xiao Qing no longer dared to take Su Chen out to cause trouble.

Every day, she watched the green light around Su Chen grow weaker and weaker, worrying so much she had grown noticeably thinner.

Just as both of them were on the verge of despair.

One day, during his ninth and a half year.

The sound of something breaking through the air suddenly came from outside the cave dwelling.

Immediately after, Bai Suzhen, dressed in white and looking travel-worn, strode into the cave.

What surprised both Su Chen and Xiao Qing was that...

Bai Suzhen, who was usually so steady, had a face completely cleared of the gloom from the past few years, filled instead with uncontrollable ecstasy.

Her bright eyes shimmered with the light of hope.

In her hand, she tightly clutched a fragment that emitted an ancient aura.

She strode over to Su Chen...

Seeing Bai Suzhen sweep away her former gloom.

She entered the cave dwelling with a look of ecstasy, holding that fragment as if she had seized the world's last life-saving straw.

The original oppressive atmosphere inside the cave was instantly shattered.

Little Su Chen and Xiao Qing's attention was completely drawn to her in an instant.

"Sister, what is this?"

"Could it be... that it records the method to break the Black Dragon Calamity for Xiao Chen?!"

Xiao Qing hurriedly went forward, her beautiful eyes staring intently at the simple and ancient fragment.

Bai Suzhen took a deep breath, her high chest heaving violently as she tried to calm the overwhelming emotions in her heart.

She walked to the stone table and carefully spread out the fragment.

A soft white spiritual light lit up at her fingertips, slowly flowing into it.

In an instant, dense rows of text appeared upon the fragment.

"This fragment is a secret scripture I found in a long-collapsed Mahayana Realm ruin, after a narrow escape from death," Bai Suzhen explained.

"After putting in so much effort, the result truly did not disappoint me."

"What is recorded here is a supreme secret technique capable of defying fate and deceiving the heavens!"

Little Su Chen sat quietly in place, outwardly feigning the ignorance a nine-and-a-half-year-old should have.

But the adult soul hidden within that shell had already pricked up its ears.

"This secret technique is called the 'Heavenly Phoenix Dragon-Masking Array'."

"It is said to have been created during the ancient era by a human cultivator to protect his child born of a relationship with the demon race."

Bai Suzhen turned her head and looked deeply at Little Su Chen.

"The True Dragon bloodline within Chen'er's body is too overbearing."

"Once the ten-year limit arrives, it will inevitably break through the soul shield left by his mother."

"At that time, having not yet grown up, he would definitely be discovered by that damned Black Dragon."

"And the core of this secret technique is to find eight 'Phoenix Girls' with special destinies and extremely Yin birth charts!"

"Phoenix Girls?"

Xiao Qing was slightly stunned.

"Correct."

Bai Suzhen nodded.

"These eight Phoenix Girls must be favored daughters of heaven who carry great providence and great karma."

"Their existence is like eight shields that can reflect the secrets of heaven and reverse Yin and Yang."

Bai Suzhen walked over to Su Chen and slowly crouched down.

She reached out her hands, which were warm and smooth as jade, and gently stroked the boy's handsome face, which had already begun to take shape.

"After Chen'er turns ten and before he reaches adulthood at eighteen, he must leave our protection."

"For a period of one year each, he must live and eat with each of these eight Phoenix Girls, never leaving their side."

"Through day-to-night companionship, the extremely Yin destiny aura of these eight Phoenix Girls will be used to neutralize and mask the increasingly awakening violent Dragon Qi within his body."

"It will also hide his location."

Hearing this, Xiao Qing came to a realization, but then her brow furrowed again.

"Can just living and eating together deceive that old dragon of the Mahayana Realm?"

"Even if that's true, what happens after he turns eighteen?"

"This is precisely where this secret technique is most heaven-defying and most demanding."

Bai Suzhen bit her succulent red lips, a flush creeping onto her exquisite face, and her eyes became somewhat evasive.

It seemed that what she was about to say next was difficult to voice even for a Tribulation Transcendence stage great demon like herself who had few worldly desires.

"Living and eating together is only a suppression like boiling a frog in warm water; it's equivalent to a delay, not a true solution."

"The true deception of the heavens occurs on the day of Chen'er's eighteenth birthday coming-of-age ceremony."

Bai Suzhen took a deep breath, as if using all her strength to say the words in full.

"On that day, Chen'er must... must wed these eight Phoenix Girls simultaneously."

"And on the same night... consummate the marriages!"

These words were like a thunderclap from the highest heavens, exploding directly within the cave.

"What?!"

Xiao Qing cried out, her beautiful eyes widening into circles as she looked at her sister in disbelief, then at Little Su Chen sitting obediently there.

As the person involved, Su Chen was completely frozen in place.

He roared frantically in his heart.

He had originally thought that the life-saving methods in the cultivation world were nothing more than eating some peerless immortal pill, or going to some life-or-death secret realm to take a lava bath and cleanse his marrow.

In the end, after all that, this so-called heaven-deceiving secret technique was actually telling him to build a harem?

And there were even hard quotas.

He had to gather eight top-tier geniuses.

And it was a hardcore harem where they all had to share a bed on his eighteenth birthday?

Su Chen's expression became exceptionally complex, and the corners of his mouth twitched uncontrollably.

At this moment, he did not have the memories of building a harem in the real world.

Therefore...

As an adult male soul with normal values, being told that in order to survive, he had to forcibly pursue eight women...

This sounded like some tacky, third-rate fantasy power-trip novel setting.

But unfortunately, this concerned his own life.

While Su Chen's expression was complex, the faces of Bai Suzhen and Xiao Qing also became unusually grim.

Given their noble statuses...

One was the founder of the Cangmang Sacred Land, the foremost sacred land at the source of the Spirit River, and the number one expert in the world on the surface.

The other was a Saintess of a great sect who was proficient in divining the secrets of heaven.

Looking across this vast Linghe Realm, let alone finding eight women with extremely Yin birth charts...

Even if they wanted eight hundred or eight thousand...

With a single command, countless noble families and sects would line up to deliver their own genius Saintesses to their door.

That wasn't the difficult part at all.

What truly made them feel uncomfortable was the psychological hurdle they couldn't cross.

Su Chen had been raised by them, fed mouthful by mouthful with their Source Spiritual Milk.

They had watched him grow from an abandoned infant in swaddling clothes into the handsome and upright youth he was now.

Through years of living together day and night, that affection had long since transcended the ordinary bond between master and disciple or elder and junior.

Especially for Bai Suzhen.