The Purgatory Calamity-Chapter 1008 - 966: Age-Old Secret_2

At that time, Luo Hongyan was still an ordinary yet exceptionally talented Heaven Clan girl, whose beauty was first known in the territory of her clan and admired by many peers, both within and from outside the clan.

One day, as she roamed a sea of flowers, she happened to encounter a vibrant green Divine Bird.

The Divine Bird gracefully landed on her shoulder, chirping and speaking the language of humans, and they became constant companions for a very long time.

The Divine Bird was both a friend and a mentor to her.

It told her about the profound mysteries of her bloodline, elucidated the verities of the Law of Light to her, and explained how she should forge her path in the Divine Tao.

Due to the arrival of this Divine Bird, her bloodline advanced rapidly and her understanding of the Law of Light surpassed all her peers.

But just before she attained godhood, the Divine Bird suddenly disappeared, never to be seen again.

When she forged her first Light Divine, the blessing she most wished for was from the green Divine Bird. Even after she became a god, she searched everywhere for it, but there was no information on the Divine Bird.

Until this very moment!

"Whoosh!"

Inside His divine eyes, the green Divine Bird that appeared suddenly transformed.

The green Divine Bird morphed into a majestic Black Phoenix!

Dark Divine Aura crazily spread in the depths of His eyes.

In the cold black eyes of the Black Phoenix, there was nothing but a lofty and indifferent contempt for all beings—destruction, demise, corrosion, poison, and other terrifying powers were also boiling in the darkness.

"Ah!"

Continuously infiltrated by its will and on the verge of losing her self, Luo Hongyan suddenly screamed at that moment.

With a shock intense enough to make one doubt life itself, He looked at the "Illusory Void Realm" in the space rift, at the Black Phoenix within the "Illusory Void Realm."

"It’s you!!"

Luo Hongyan’s scream tore through the sky like a sharp blade.

"Crack!" freeωebnovēl.c૦m

Huge swaths of the void were shattered by Her scream.

The already fragmented Star River became even more tenuous and the Great Tao Law twisted and snapped.

His heart was thrown into utter chaos.

He could not have imagined in His wildest dreams that the green Divine Bird, which He regarded as a spiritual pillar, was actually the Sovereign of the Ancient Demon Clan!

The Black Phoenix, whom He had been determined to eliminate and whose Dark Extreme Path He had wanted to seize, turned out to be the greatest aid on His Divine Path!

Without that Divine Bird, without the coming and cultivation of the Black Phoenix, He would not have achieved Divine Enthronement so smoothly, nor become one of the Sovereigns so easily.

But how could this be possible?

It defied all reason!

Yet, the Black Phoenix, hidden within the "Illusory Void Realm," gave a confirming answer at that time: "It was me."

Upon these words, even Yi Hao, the God of Destiny, changed color.

The smile on Yi Hao’s face vanished as He watched the "Illusory Void Realm" within the crack with a solemn expression, quietly communicating with someone through the will of His mind.

"No, there’s something I don’t know, something strange."

The God of Destiny immediately treated the situation with caution, attempting to decipher the bizarre destiny to see if there really was a thread of fate between Luo Hongyan and the Black Phoenix.

"To think they know each other..." Pang Jian was stunned.

Watching Luo Hongyan from atop the Divine King’s Skull, disconnected from the Star Sky and unable to sense even the Sea of Souls and the Black Dragon King, he also looked towards the Black Phoenix in the "Illusory Void Realm."

Countless questions arose in his mind, and Pang Jian felt as though he was dreaming, struggling to distinguish between reality and the present.

Light and darkness are opposites, a truth seemingly unbreakable since ancient times, and the Black Phoenix was the ultimate embodiment of darkness, the representative of the dark.

Luo Hongyan was the God of Light and the Sovereign on this Divine Path.

After becoming a Sovereign, she and the Black Phoenix had become natural mortal enemies, always seeking to strangle the other to seize the Dark Extreme Path.

Who could have imagined that the instigator that enabled Her to walk this path and ultimately become a Sovereign of Light was the Black Phoenix?

"Why is it you? Why is it you?! Why?!"

Luo Hongyan, her emotions boiling over, managed to break free from its will’s contamination and tenaciously retained Her own spiritual intelligence.

She had to seek an answer!

Her desire for this answer outweighed all external invasions, nothing could grind down Her will, not even the most supreme being could take possession of the memories and the brilliance of Light Divine in Her mind.

"I need an opponent."

The Black Phoenix’s voice was eerily calm as it said indifferently, "I have always been clear that only within the Heaven Clan could such an opponent be born. So I have been searching, always waiting."

"You’ll never know how delighted I was when I found you."

"Luo Hongyan, you are the one I’ve been waiting for years, the one who could spar with me in the future, the one who could match me in strength."

"And indeed, you did not disappoint me."

"Swoosh!"

Pang Lin’s tiny figure appeared on the forehead of the Black Phoenix.

At this moment, her lips curved with a smile, looking down on Luo Hongyan, who seemed on the brink of collapse, with the expression of an elder regarding a junior.

"Your path to the six Divine Powers, including the faintest breadcrumbs of my true body lying dormant in Purgatory, as well as all your actions in exploring Purgatory in a human body, have all been propelled by my will behind the scenes."

"You?!"

Luo Hongyan appeared to be maddened, her divine eyes fixated only on the image of the figure in a bright red dress.

The human aspect of Her nature had been vastly magnified!

Pang Lin’s shocking revelation had intensified Her inner obsession to such a degree that even the supreme will that erases passions and desires struggled to shake Her heart at this moment!

"Are you the one directing my life, paving the way for my growth, leading me to act according to your will?!"

"What meaning does my life have then?!"

"Black Phoenix! How could you treat me so?!"

Luo Hongyan was truly enraged.

She had never felt as agitated as she did now, realizing that if her life had been manipulated at every turn, then wasn’t she just a puppet?

Was she not blindly being used as a pawn, manipulated until now by another’s hands?

It was infuriating that only today had She come to realize it!

She was exceedingly unwilling to accept it, and it was incredibly difficult to bear!

Even the influence of the highest supreme will had to wait until She sorted through her thoughts, until She unraveled the answers!

"Huff! Huff, huff!"

Her own Divine Aura, under the glow of silvery light, rekindled!

The Great Tao Truths that had emerged within Her God Status, encompassing myriad God Spirits, had only recently been refined into the form of Law Silent Lightning and were forcibly erased by Her in the midst of emotional turmoil!

Stormy waves surged through Her mind, Her Divine Power and Divine Aura blazing fiercely!

At all costs, risking soul and body burning alike, She must have the Black Phoenix provide answers!

"What exactly do you want to do?! Black Phoenix, what purpose are you trying to achieve through me?"

"Tell me?!"

Her anguished and piercing divine voice fragmented the "Chaos Star River."

"Boom! Crack!"

The entire Star River seemed to collapse, and the massive Supernatural Ability attracted by Her exploded directly, obliterated near Her Divine Body.

"My purpose?"

Pang Lin furrowed her brows in deep contemplation.

Moments later, She whispered softly, "Hongyan, there were things that I didn’t quite see through initially, or maybe didn’t perceive deeply and far enough. I had thought about pushing you to become the Sovereign of Light, seizing the Extreme Light Path you pondered over your lifetime to forge my own Realm of Divine King with a fusion of light and darkness."

"The realm you wanted before was also my original pursuit, the guideline I set for myself."

"But I don’t think so now."

She smiled, "Hongyan, the things you want, I can actually give them to you, right at this moment."

"Whoosh!"

The Black Phoenix, which had been hidden within the "Illusory Void Realm," suddenly flew out, moving willingly towards Luo Hongyan.

"Boom!"

The Black Phoenix shattered in midflight.

Her knowledge of the Dark Extreme Path, gleaned from long years and all her wisdom, turned into myriad flows of extreme black light.

At that moment, the streams of light merged into Luo Hongyan’s Divine Body one by one, entering Her Sea of Light Souls, becoming a part of Her God Status.

Luo Hongyan, who had been devoted to the fusion of light and darkness since ascending to godhood, finally obtained what She had longed for all her life.

For this, She had joined forces with Tianyu and Fu Ya to ambush the Black Phoenix in deep space, letting it languish for years in the mysterious Mysterious Fog Sea.

Yet She hadn’t obtained what She truly desired through that battle.

Afterward, She crystallized a human body in Purgatory and infiltrated the heights of darkness in the Seventh Realm, intending to refine the "lifeless" Black Phoenix.

She failed for the second time.

Not long ago, in this desolate Star River, She again attempted to seize the Path of Extreme Darkness from the Black Phoenix.

She failed for the third time.

Her repeated failures nearly drove Her to despair, and that’s why She was forced, under the pressure from Yi Hao, to choose to ascend to Divine King in an imperfect manner.

But after She became the Divine King, the Black Phoenix voluntarily gave up its demon body and handed over what She had dreamt of acquiring.

And it was presented as a gift!

...