Beyond the Xuanhuang Realm

"Senior, how long will it take for Xiaoyao to finish?"

Mo Tianxiao felt very unnatural being stared at by Huang Miaoyin, so he could only find a topic to lighten the atmosphere a bit.

"At the shortest, one year. At the longest, ten years."

Huang Miaoyin's answer made Mo Tianxiao freeze.

It would take that long?

"Well, Senior, since Xiaoyao will take so long, can I go out first?"

Mo Tianxiao spoke up, a bad feeling rising in his heart. He wouldn't have to wait in this place until Huang Xiaoyao finished her bloodline awakening, would he?

Obviously, his feeling was dead on.

Huang Miaoyin's voice carried a hint of laziness as she questioned, "You seem very reluctant to see me?"

"Not at all!"

"Senior, how could you have such a thought?"

Mo Tianxiao scratched his head, a stiff smile on his face.

"Give up on your little schemes. Until Xiaoyao completely awakens her bloodline, you won't be able to leave."

Huang Miaoyin's words completely shattered Mo Tianxiao's hopeful illusion of leaving.

"This place has been sealed. Only the bloodline of the Heavenly Demon Phoenix can open it, and only the specific Heavenly Demon Phoenix bloodline that opened this door can take effect. Simply put, if you want to get out, you can only rely on Xiaoyao."

"Of course, if your strength is greater than this tree, you might be able to forcefully break that door open."

Listening to Huang Miaoyin's words, Mo Tianxiao quietly sat cross-legged on the ground.

"Sigh, it looks like I can only wait to leave together with Xiaoyao."

He gazed helplessly at Huang Xiaoyao's figure, secretly clicking his tongue at the speed her aura was strengthening.

Before they entered the Heavenly Demon Phoenix Ancestral Land together, Huang Xiaoyao was only at the Profound Connection Realm. Not much time had passed, yet she had already broken through to the third level of the Void Refinement Realm and was sprinting toward the middle stage of the Void Refinement Realm.

This breakthrough speed was basically cheating.

"Is this the benefit brought by a bloodline?"

A trace of envy appeared in Mo Tianxiao's eyes. It was one thing for her destiny to be strong, but her bloodline was this powerful too.

A Child of Destiny cheating the system was truly unreasonable.

"Are you very envious of her bloodline?"

Huang Miaoyin looked at Mo Tianxiao. Her voice was very calm, as if she were chatting with an old friend, carrying an indescribable sense of familiarity.

"This is a divine beast bloodline. There shouldn't be anyone who isn't envious, right?"

Mo Tianxiao responded as a matter of course.

Which cultivator wouldn't want to possess a top-tier bloodline? No one would despise a life with cheat codes.

Huang Miaoyin turned her head and glanced at Huang Xiaoyao. "A powerful bloodline doesn't mean one can go further. Conversely, someone with a weak bloodline and mediocre aptitude isn't necessarily worse than an existence with a powerful bloodline."

She had lived for an unknown amount of time and had seen far too many people with powerful bloodlines, heaven-defying aptitudes, and darlings of the heavens. But in the end, they all perished in the river of time on the path of seeking the Great Dao.

Those who could make it to the end might actually be existences with no aptitude at all. Although such individuals were pitifully few, she had seen them with her own eyes.

No talent, no aptitude, and even possessing absolutely nothing.

But in the end, they forcefully defied the heavens and changed their fate. No talent? Steal it! No aptitude? Steal it! No destiny? Steal it!

That woman she both hated and feared was exactly this kind of person.

Unreasonable and illogical, as long as she set her sights on something, it would definitely fall into her hands in the end. Even if it was a man, she could rely on snatching him.

Yue Liuli! The person she hated yet had no choice but to admire.

A mediocre freak.

This was her evaluation when she first met Yue Liuli. Later, this evaluation changed to... a crazy bandit.

Mo Tianxiao strongly disagreed with Huang Miaoyin's words. "Senior, with mediocre aptitude, no bloodline, no talent, no destiny, and no background, how can one defy the heavens and change their fate? How can they defeat those who reached the finish line the moment they were born?"

Huang Miaoyin glanced at him, a hint of disdain in her tone, as if mocking him for not having seen the world.

"Where is the finish line on the path of cultivation? You are still too young now. You will understand once you meet that kind of person in the future."

He had probably already met her, just didn't know it himself. Of course, perhaps it was because he didn't want to recall the her from that mediocre yet crazy period.

"Is that so?"

Mo Tianxiao smiled and scratched his head, not arguing with Huang Miaoyin. She had lived for an unknown amount of time, so her experiences were naturally vastly richer than his.

Furthermore, it wasn't that he completely disbelieved it. After all, there was a saying in the human world: "Man will conquer nature."

Although rare, one could not deny that this situation had always existed.

For the following time, the two chatted casually. Temporarily unable to leave, Mo Tianxiao could only pass the time like this.

As for cultivation? Was that something someone his age should be thinking about?

Perhaps because they were becoming more familiar with each other, Mo Tianxiao spoke more and more relaxed, and the topics gradually became abstract.

In response to this, Huang Miaoyin began to keep silent, ignoring him and letting him talk to himself.

Feeling bored, Mo Tianxiao stopped bothering Huang Miaoyin and began to stroll around the Heavenly Demon Phoenix Ancestral Land. Looking at these stone statues, he felt a bit curious for a moment.

"Senior, are the owners of these stone statues still alive like you?"

These were all at the divine beast level, formerly at least Great Emperor experts. If they were all still alive, where were they?

And what did the world outside the Xuanhuang Realm look like?

Was it a more powerful world, or countless other worlds just like the Xuanhuang Realm?

"I don't know."

Huang Miaoyin also swept a glance over these stone statues. There were very few among them who could stand shoulder to shoulder with her, and she didn't know if the oldest few were dead or alive.

"Aside from me being the first owner of my stone statue, the rest of the stone statues have probably passed through an unknown number of successors."

"After this time, this stone statue will also welcome its second inheritor."

Huang Miaoyin looked at the faintly glowing Nine Heavens Divine Phoenix stone statue behind her.

Who would have thought that after her, it would take so long for the Heavenly Demon Phoenix clan to produce a second Nine Heavens Divine Phoenix bloodline.

However, she could understand. After all, the Nine Heavens Divine Phoenix was an auspicious beast for the entire demon race; the appearance of even one was incredibly rare.

Take her, for example. If it weren't for her status as an auspicious beast, her heaven-defying destiny, and her top-tier bloodline, she might have died long ago.

If she had died, it wouldn't be easy for Huang Xiaoyao to awaken her bloodline.

"Is the next successor Xiaoyao?"

Mo Tianxiao glanced at Huang Xiaoyao.

"When Xiaoyao's cultivation reaches the peak of this world, she will leave her own power imprint in the stone statue, ensuring that future generations can easily awaken their bloodlines."

"So that's how it is." Mo Tianxiao nodded.

So this was how the Heavenly Demon Phoenix clan passed down their legacy. Didn't that mean that once Xiaoyao awakened her bloodline, this old woman would no longer appear in the Xuanhuang Realm?

"Senior, what is the world outside the Xuanhuang Realm like?"

Mo Tianxiao asked curiously.

Even the system couldn't see through this old woman's cultivation, and he didn't know where her true body actually was.

With his cheat system, sooner or later, he would also break through the limits of the Xuanhuang Realm. It wouldn't hurt to learn about the outside world in advance.

Huang Miaoyin looked at him, stayed silent for a moment, and then said, "It has been too long, so I've forgotten some of it. Just think of it as a Xuanhuang Realm magnified countless times."