Chapter 491: Little Dragon in Flame

This chapter is a bonus chapter for the "Wu Ma Wei Yang" reward.

The legends of this world.

A Phoenix lives for five hundred years. When it is about to die, it gathers many branches and burns itself to ashes. From the ashes, a new Phoenix will be born, and this cycle repeats.

There is also a legend that says after the Phoenix dies, worms hatch from its bones. These worms constantly consume one another, eventually growing into a new Phoenix.

Of course, there is also a legend that the Phoenix lives in the volcano's crater, and they are new beings born from the death of the Fire Dragon.

"A five-hundred-year cycle, this sounds somewhat similar to the legend of the Dragon Valley that Virginia told me. It is said that the Dragon Valley is the reincarnation site of dragons, and old dragons return to the Dragon Valley to lay the groundwork for their reincarnation... It seems these legends are interconnected."

For legendary creatures, humans likely only imagine reincarnation, immortality, and other such mystical phenomena.

He placed the Phoenix feather on the table and asked the servants for paper and a pen to start writing a letter. The letter was addressed to Marquis Merlin, expressing his gratitude and hinting that he would look after the Longtaro family. He also asked Marquis Merlin for more information about the Phoenix feather.

Its origin, and whether there are real Phoenixes.

After finishing the letter, he lit a candle, melted some pine resin, and poured it over the envelope's seal. Then he took out a rectangular seal engraved with the half-serpent tongue name "Lis" and pressed it onto the pine resin, leaving a unique mark. He gave the letter to the servants of Tulip Castle to help send it out.

Afterward.

He started intently studying the Phoenix feather, holding it in his hand and feeling its warm texture. Because this Phoenix feather was so precious, he always handled it with great care, examining it meticulously. This study made him lose track of time, and it was almost midnight.

After roughly grasping the external properties of the Phoenix feather, he decided to infuse it with mana to activate it, attempting to use the Phoenix feather to accelerate his mana cultivation.

When the mana touched the Phoenix feather, Liszt could feel the room's temperature instantly rise by ten degrees.

The Phoenix feather instantly appeared to ignite—not real flames, but a surge of fire-attribute magic power, released in a flame-like flowing form. Through the mana circulation, it entered Liszt's meridians, helping to expand the driving force of his mana.

"The effect is almost like a drug!"

Liszt's eyes sparkled as he carefully guided this new magic power, transforming it into his own mana. The new mana had a clear boundary with the dragon mana in his body, but as the mana continued to circulate, the boundary gradually blurred and attempted to merge—his mana was originally formed through fusion.

The newly born mana would definitely become stronger.

However, just as this not yet fully merged mana flowed through his meridians toward his heart.

A sudden change occurred!

The magic seed in his heart, stimulated by this new mana, suddenly became violent. It released a tremendous attraction, madly devouring the mana in Liszt's body. In almost the blink of an eye, the mana in his body was completely depleted, and his body grew weak and limp.

Only his brain remained clear, and he was particularly frightened: "What's happening? Is the magic power of the Phoenix feather conflicting with the magic seed in my heart?"

Can two tigers share one mountain?

So the magic seed went berserk?

Liszt was filled with fear and anxiety, feeling as if he had gone into a state of qi deviation, his body in a very bad condition. Mana is the source of a knight's power; once it disappears, the knight will definitely become an ordinary person. However, he could not resist; the magic seed residing in his heart was completely uncontrollable.

"Using my body to nurture a dragon was a grave error!" He began to regret, wishing he could dig out his heart, find the magic seed, and crush it.

But soon, another change occurred. After absorbing all the mana in his body, the magic seed did not stop but continued to devour. Since there was no mana left in his body, it turned to the Phoenix feather in Liszt's hand.

This intense devouring force, transmitted through his meridians to his hands, began to devour the flame-like magic form of the Phoenix feather.

These flames seemed to want to resist.

But they could not struggle, and with a whoosh, they were sucked into the meridians of Liszt's hands. A burning pain spread through his hands, then through his meridians, attacking his entire body until it reached his heart, making his whole heart convulse. The excruciating pain almost numbed him.

He desperately wanted to faint, but his continuously improving physical condition made it impossible for him to lose consciousness.

He could only feel the pain clearly: "What on earth is going on, what exactly happened, why did the magic power seed rebel! Did the Phoenix's Feather stimulate the magic power seed?"

He could only distract himself from the pain by thinking.

He wanted to use the Magic Eye skill, but without any mana to operate, he could only watch his hands with his naked eyes. The burning Phoenix's Feather in his hands, the flame continuously "drilled" into the skin of his palms. As the magic power seed kept absorbing, the flame grew smaller, and the color of the Phoenix's Feather became increasingly dull.

He didn't know how long it had been, for him, it felt like a century.

Finally.

The Phoenix's Feather in his hand completely extinguished, with no more luster, then slowly crumbled, turning into powder and disappearing between his fingers, turned into ashes before it could even hit the ground.

"My priceless Phoenix's Feather... is it just gone?"

Liszt was on the verge of tears, even before he could start his cultivation, the Phoenix's Feather worth several dragon coins had completely vanished, without leaving a trace.

Before he could cry out.

A peculiar feeling quickly emerged, spreading from the heart area—the devouring power of the magic power seed had disappeared, in fact, he couldn't even feel the magic power seed anymore. Only the peculiar feeling in the heart area, connected to his brain, produced a certain sensation...

As if something had come to life!

"Oh ho!"

A delicate cry rang out in his mind, not only ending all the pain in his body but also giving him a sense of telepathic link similar to that with a contracted spirit bug—as if a delicate, newborn, weak life emotion had occupied a corner of his mind.

"This is..."

Liszt was somewhat confused.

At the same time, the warmth in his heart began to move rapidly, quickly traveling along his energy channels to his palm. He looked down and immediately saw a flame inexplicably burning in his palm, without any burning sensation or the sting of flames, only a faint warmth.

This flame soon twisted, forming a small flying creature.

Wings resembling a bat's, a slender body with two powerful hind legs, and two short front legs, along with a tail that wagged incessantly, and a head with a somewhat adorable long horn.

Clearly the form of a Fire Dragon!

"Oh ho!"

The Fire Dragon opened its mouth, emitting a faint yet unmistakable roar, instantly pulling the confused Liszt back to reality, fully alert.

"Fire Dragon?"

"No, it's more solid than a Fire Dragon, more tangible and alive, is this a juvenile Fire Dragon?"