Volume 11 Chapter 21 The Earth is the Victim of the Enraged Dragon and Phoenix

The legend of the dragon and phoenix dated back to a time when darkness and lightning pervaded the Earth, a time when rifts in the dry earth spread to the ends of the world. Depending on which story it was, the dragon and phoenix were illustrated, as well as connected, differently. In “Six Evil Beasts Chronicles”, the dragon and phoenix were mortal enemies who’d never be allies. While the book was a work of fiction, some of the details were surprisingly accurate, especially this part.

From the archive’s Mount Daluo’s founder left, the six beasts often fought as a team. Due to their varying reproduction times, they’d each lead their own armies in separate places; compare it to a nation with numerous garrisons set up in different cities. For this reason, divide and conquer was always used to tackle the threats. This was true for all but the smallest races - the dragon and phoenix races.

The might of the dragon and phoenix were distinctly different to the others, and their connection was the hardest to understand. The strategy used back then to take down the two was to put them together because they couldn’t help going at each other’s necks until they were incapacitated. In other words, the only counter to dragons’ might was phoenixes’ might.

Fengqi shenmu was a tree unique to Nanjiang and most commonly mentioned of in old tales related to their Sun Divine Bird. According to the fables, the Sun Divine Bird’s habitat was on a spiritual tree in the clouds. The Sun Divine Bird only chose the most beautiful habitats to call home. Any tree it perched on, spat on, bled on and whatnot was considered a priceless treasure. That was how a fengqi shenmu tree was created.

That was what I was supposed to say. For some reason, it came out as, “The hen pecks the centipede, and the centipede bites back. Their fight was incredibly ferocious. The centipede is now too poisonous. What can we do? We’ll scare it with the hen’s feathers. Easy.”

“So you came to Wanyu for the shenmu?”

“You two understood that? You’re geniuses?!”

Young Shiyi imitated a puffer fish: “I always knew, okay? You think I’m uneducated like you?”

My bad for forgetting she finished books ten times faster than me. Did I ever mention she didn’t read gossip exclusively unlike me?

Boss Shen finally finished thinking. “Wait, are you suggesting… the Sun Divine Bird Nanjiang people worship is…”

“I never said that.” I shook my head. “Let me make it clear that I’ve only seen this mentioned in old gossip books back on Mount Daluo. I’ve never seen a phoenix. By the same account, I’ve never seen a Sun Divine Bird, so I can’t provide a confident answer to your query. One thing I can confidently tell you, though, is that fengqi shenmu is the bane of dragons.”

In the first clash against a dragon, the wood was used to design a formation. In a sense, the wood weakened the dragon similarly to a drug.

Shen Yiren asked, “We can take down the beast if we have the wood?”

“Even if we can’t get our hands on it, we can still succeed with our current forces.”

“Why did you go through all the effort to come here, in that case?”

“But, it will reduce the death toll.”

Boss Shen just stared at me, seemingly surprised. She then glanced over to Young Shiyi - perhaps because she thought she shouldn’t stare at me. For th