Chapter 36: The Unsealed Vermillion Bird
Besides, she wasn't a talkative person. She just thought that Qin Xuan was blessed with great fortune and had experienced some kind of adventure.
After all, if he had mastered the "contract" that allows people to travel between worlds, what were Soul Bones compared to that? This was true even if the 100,000-year Soul Bone could attract almost any Soul Master or force in this world and incite them to kill and rob.
She quietly watched Qin Xuan, who was sitting on the ground. Although she still had no expression on her face, her heroic yet beautiful baby face held a subtle smile that she herself didn't even notice.
"Perhaps it wouldn't be bad to live like this forever, right? Ah Yan," Jingni lowered her beautiful eyes, gently stroked her belly, and murmured in her heart.
A scarlet flame quickly rose, and Qin Xuan brought his left and right hands together, then slowly opened them. 5 Soul Rings—2 yellow, 1 purple, and 2 black—flashed around his body, and a small scarlet sword, about the size of a palm, appeared between Qin Xuan's palms.
Qin Xuan's skin and black hair turned red at a speed visible to the naked eye. His impeccable facial features became somewhat distorted due to pain, and even his seated body became somewhat unstable.
Qin Xuan was shocked. He had underestimated the inner core of the Ten-Headed Fiery Sun Serpent, even though his current physique was already strong enough to withstand a Soul Ring of more than 50,000 years. However, the beastly nature of the Ten-Headed Fiery Sun Serpent contained in this inner elixir was not comparable to that of an ordinary 50,000-year-old Soul Beast. Yet, this was still within Qin Xuan's tolerance.
He quickly activated the Guiguzi Breathing Technique to lay down a layer of defense close to the meridians to protect them from being burned by the exploding scorching energy and then dredged the meridians.
Although Jingni knew that absorbing Soul Rings carried certain risks, she had never seen such a scene. She watched the thick flames envelop Qin Xuan and saw that his face was full of pain and ferocity. She couldn't help but worry.
She wanted to stand up and move closer, to mobilize her Soul Power to guide him, but she stopped abruptly. Unlike the world during the Qin Dynasty, internal energy had almost no attributes, and warriors could transfer it freely. It was different in the Douluo Continent. Everyone's Martial Soul had attributes and attribute restraints.
Qin Xuan's Martial Soul leaned toward fire. Her Jingni Sword leaned toward water. Since it obtained the Killing God Domain, it seemed to be transforming toward ice attributes and could switch freely between ice and water. The Martial Soul attributes of the two were mutually exclusive. If she went up to him now, she wouldn't help him; she would hurt him instead.
Fortunately, the pain on Qin Xuan's face did not last long. With the gradual refining of the Ten-Headed Fiery Sun Serpent's inner elixir, the beastly nature lost its energy support and gradually weakened.
Jingni's Martial Soul was released uncontrollably. Her beautiful black eyes looked at the red sword in her hand in surprise, and the hilt of the sword tilted towards Qin Xuan, as if bowing its head. A miniature eel was lying on the sword, trembling, and it looked a bit scared. It seemed to be afraid of Qin Xuan's aura.
The ancient Jingni was actually trembling. Was it because of the Vermillion Bird sealed in the sword? Jingni looked at the Jingni phantom with a puzzled expression, then looked at Qin Xuan's Everbright Sword, contemplating something in her mind.
Qin Xuan had said that her Martial Soul was the Jingni Sword. It was somewhat similar to his Martial Soul, the Everbright Sword. It seemed that there were ancient beasts sealed inside.
If Qin Xuan's Martial Soul was the one that sealed the ancient beast Vermillion Bird from the Douluo World, then her Martial Soul was the one that sealed the ancient strange beast Jingni in the world of Qin Shi Ming Yue.
Because they belonged to different worlds, there was no difference in the strength of their Martial Souls at the beginning. The quality of their Martial Souls was equally important. Now the Jingni Sword was actually afraid of the Everbright Sword. Could this be what Qin Xuan meant by the evolution of the Martial Soul?
Seeing that Qin Xuan's energy was stabilizing, Jingni, who had planned to use this time to practice more, suddenly lost the desire to practice. At such times, she would not tolerate interference from others, and she began to protect Qin Xuan.
This wait lasted a whole day and night. From early morning to noon, and then to evening. Until the next day, when it was just dawn. Qin Xuan finally showed signs of waking up.
A strange feeling suddenly arose in Jingni's heart, and her bright eyes, which were slightly red due to sleepiness, instantly focused on Qin Xuan.
The red flames that had originally covered Qin Xuan quickly turned into gold. The Everbright Sword also turned golden. It quietly floated between Qin Xuan's palms, its surface covered with golden thunder rendered by flames. Faintly, one could also see the white bat magic pattern that represented the Killing God Domain.
Qin Xuan's body shook violently, and the next second, he was completely engulfed in flames.
Golden flames shot up into the sky, and in the blink of an eye, they covered the sky above the valley. The loud sound of a Phoenix erupted. Brilliant golden flames cut through the hazy sky, as if the sun was rising, instantly illuminating the entire valley.
As it rose, the golden flame faded away, revealing a huge figure about 7 meters long. The fiery red bird soared over the valley, with dazzling golden tail feathers, a perfect body shape, and proud eyes overlooking all living things, all demonstrating its majesty as the King of Birds.
The most peculiar thing was the flame on its body, which actually contained two colors: gold and red.
Jingni stood up, folding her hands on her bulging belly and looked up at the sky, her beautiful eyes unblinking as she murmured to herself, "Is this the ancient Vermillion Bird sealed in the Everbright Sword?"
"No, it is no longer the sealed ancient Vermillion Bird. It is free." Qin Xuan walked over, holding a palm-sized golden sword in his right hand. 6 Soul Rings—2 yellow, 1 purple, and 3 black—were stationary in different parts of his body, completely covering him.
The sixth black Soul Ring was particularly deep, and its diameter was several times larger. Compared with the fourth and fifth black Soul Rings, it was particularly dazzling.
His Soul Power had reached about level 68.5, just a step away from level 69. This means that after breaking through level 60, he had practiced in the City of Slaughter for nine months.
He then absorbed the 100,000-year Soul Bone and the inner core of the Ten-Headed Fiery Sun Serpent. These had allowed him to increase his Soul Power level by a total of eight and a half levels at once.
He improved by about 3 levels in the City of Slaughter, another 3 levels from the 100,000-year Soul Bone, and two and a half levels from the inner elixir of the Ten-Headed Fiery Sun Serpent on top of his level 66 Soul Power.
Qin Xuan believed that within half a year, he would be able to break through to the Soul Saint level.
At the same time, he couldn't help but marvel in his heart. He didn't expect that after refining the inner elixir of the Ten-Headed Fiery Sun Serpent, it would not evolve the Martial Soul like the original novel's Brocade Phoenix. Instead, it would lift the seal on the Everbright Sword, restoring the freedom of the Vermillion Bird and allowing it to exert its full power.
And a Domain of talent was born.
That is to say, in this era when Bibi Dong and Tang San have not yet entered the City of Slaughter, Qin Xuan is now the only Soul Master in the Douluo Continent who possesses dual Domains.
Not only that, after being unsealed, this Vermillion Bird seemed to have become a special existence in Qin Xuan's body. Although it still resided in the Everbright Sword, it was more like a separate individual. What exactly is the function of this individual? Perhaps the answer will be revealed when he cultivates to Titled Douluo in the future.