Dance Of The Phoenix
187. The Sacred Fire Core

"Aren't you afraid Childe's mentality is disturbed? I'm a little worried ...." Su Churan watched Childe from afar with Gu Yuena.

Since the war was over and managed to hold on once more, Childe was immediately transported by Su Churan back to the palace. At that very moment, Childe shut herself in the room with a chaotic look.

This was his first time on the battlefield, on the front lines, and being hit by countless corpses helplessly. If not because he knew how to make a shield using the holy fire around his body, he was afraid that the dead creature would have long found him and killed him in the pile of corpses.

Gu Yuena looked pondering. Childe's emotional fluctuations were chaotic. He was scared, but determined to stay alive. Secretly, he felt nostalgic.

"If it's not like this, I can't put him on the front lines as a leader."

The attacks that took place in Wyvernia did not touch Childe's morale enough. After learning that Childe is more heartless than Vale, Childe's personality is darker.

He lost his father, but was not at all sad. His sadness ended when his mother died, after which he became a shadowy figure who was not cared for and was in the darkest corner of the day. The family is just a complementary decoration.

"He only loves himself. He was neither suited for revenge nor for revenge, but he had the determination to survive. Someone who has a very big life determination is sometimes more terrible."

"So, what's your hope after all this is over?" ask Su Churan.

"War will make his mentality strong. At the very least, he would be a little cold-blooded. However, I will not make it completely in such darkness. After a month, you place him in the Pure Element Alliance with the rest of the members."

Su Churan was getting confused. The Pure Elements Alliance is still under construction and will be completed by next month at the earliest. Even so, its members are still very few. Childe's mental state is also concerned. How could he join the other equally clumsy little members?

Gu Yuena kept a lot of bad memories in her mind when she saw Childe's situation. Compared to Vale who is easy to control and naive, Childe is more complicated. She didn't have to bother educating Vale because she would obey his orders, but Childe was different.

Gu Yuena had to use the most cruel means to educate him.

"When I was little, I was far away in the dark. I was forced to kill my own comrades in order to survive for several times, leaving me one who ended up being someone else's weapon." Gu Yuena was silent for a moment, then slightly smiled. "At least, I won't force someone to kill his comrades-in-arms. I'm not gonna make him feel that."

Gu Yuena knew her bitterness, which made her have a distorted thought where death was the best thing for others. Even though he had abandoned his past, he had never forgotten it.

In the end, the friend he thought was his older brother, killed him. He does not blame others, because it is also his own choice.

In this life, he had understood what a valuable companion and friend were. He will not waste it any more and will not let go of what he understands.

"Let him alone to deal with his trauma. After 24 hours, send someone to talk lightly to him, don't pressure him." This was the only way for Gu Yuena to mentally help Childe who was in turmoil.

"Good." Su Churan had no other comment. He himself did not know how to deal with the complicated Childe.

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The imperial army retreated to the next city as the final frontier was pierced by the death creatures. The number of death creatures is increasing along with the number of fatalities. Those who lived could not handle it any longer and chose to give up a city on the border and build a base in Shui City.

Shui City was in the northwest of Yi Empire, about 100 kilometers from Ming City which had just been controlled by Linghun Palace. It was 40 kilometers towards the Capital and had become the last fortress they had to defend. The people were evacuated as soon as possible and given a safe place if at any time the city of Shui fell in the same condition.

The elites of the Yi Empire had made many efforts for this war. In just one year, the Yi Empire fell into a slump. If Linghun Palace arrived at the Capital City, the Yi Empire would really be finished by then and there.

This time, the five palaces had given everything to defend the last defenses of the Yi Empire. The Pure Elements Alliance had only been built and already had several members. Unfortunately, it took quite a long time to develop a pure elemental elite to destroy a death creature. That alone was enough to make Linghun Palace take possession of the land as quickly as possible.

However, for some uncertain reason, it was sudden that Linghun Palace did not show any movement and simply disappeared. Everyone was completely perplexed when they were at the city gate and looking into the desolate distance.

There were no scouts, no strange creatures, no witches posing a threat. Everything becomes a vacuum.

Everyone did not know why the Linghun Palace that had been so fierce for the past year, had suddenly disappeared as if what had happened all along was just an illusion.

However, someone from Tianshuang Palace knew for sure. It was not Gu Yuena who was the closest to Linghun Palace, but Bai Youzhe.

These few days, he had returned to Tianshuang Palace and found Gu Yuena who was cultivating for a long time to perfect the impenetrable process of nirvana. These few days as well, the situation became desolate and strange.

Gu Yuena woke up from her long cultivation, then felt the rapidly increasing fire power around her body. Unfortunately, he still could not reach nirvana and gain the full power of the Phoenix Queen. He needs a trigger.

The phoenix will enter a period of nirvana while experiencing a state of life and death. He will be in a precarious situation and go through a short, uncertain death when the time will be to wake up. Upon awakening, he would pass the stage of being reborn and become a true phoenix.

To deal with life and death situations, Gu Yuena needed a trigger. This war is the answer.

"You're done?"

The voice made Gu Yuena stir her head and look at the soul fluctuation not far from her being.

"Youzhe?"

Bai Youzhe, standing while folding both her hands on her chest and leaning against the door, watched Gu Yuena from the start. He smiled, then walked over to Gu Yuena whom he had not seen for a long time.

"You really did give me a lot of surprises. Not only established the Pure Element Alliance and became a holy leader. Actually you also defeated Geng Ji in front of the three other palace lords."

Gu Yuena pursed her lips. "Actually, I don't really care about those two things."

"I also heard that you started forging Childe, that spoiled prince. You seem to like educating children."

Gu Yuena chuckled. "Can he still be called a child? My way is not at all suitable for use by children."

"Well, I think it's like that." Bai Youzhe rubbed her chin. "You have many suitable ways to treat everyone."

Bai Youzhe became serious. "The Hell Region began to recover their situation. But it still takes time. Since the demon bone had disappeared from Yang Xinyuan's hands, the Queen of Linghun Palace came to the Underworld and looked for it."

Gu Yuena's rapture stiffened. "He ...."

"You just calm down. He did nothing bad other than make a fuss in the Hell Region over his anger. After that, he left. At least it gave quite a reason why Linghun Palace had not moved lately."

Gu Yuena nodded in understanding. "But even so, the situation of the Yi Empire was still not conducive. I will find out the further development of the Pure Element Alliance and accelerate the formation of the army."

As the owner of the holy fire, he had an understanding of the pure element. The Phoenix Queen's memory also helped her refine the understanding to help the pure element owner develop his potential.

It has already been several months since the formation of the alliance. When Gu Yuena arrived at the entrance of the palace building that was part of the alliance building, she stopped her steps when she found Childe standing in the doorway.

Seeing Gu Yuena and Bai Youzhe following, Childe immediately bowed politely. "Your Majesty."

From that day on, Childe had never seen Gu Yuena. He had been sent to the battlefield several times and had almost gone insane in the middle of the battle. Gu Yuena who sent him to the battlefield, actually made him have changed slowly.

One of them, Childe became more quiet and did not complain much. Since he knew, it would all be for naught in the face of Gu Yuena.

Childe guided Gu Yuena into the alliance. There were about 100 members newly sent by the four palaces and the Crown Prince. Today, the new Su Churan brought two brothers with quite good talent from the Wyvernia region who had been having a hard time. They are lucky enough to survive in times like these.

The alliance development is going well and Childe is gradually increasing. Gu Yuena was pleased with this development.

In order to support the development of pure elements to be more effective, under a low talent like Childe, Gu Yuena thought of putting down the core of the sacred flame and pushing the potential of pure elements to the limit to increase the strength of the members.

The Phoenix had a very pure fire. However, pure elements always had a constraint in cultivation where one would encounter a great obstacle in making a breakthrough. In this world, very little energy was truly pure as the cultivation requirement of pure elements as it had been mixed with the dark elements of the demons. That was why, it was difficult for a phoenix to increase in strength and be reborn in such a short period of time.

The Phoenix Queen was the only phoenix to pass through nirvana faster. He separated the holy fire core in his body and placed it in the palace as a fire crystal and gave the phoenix a stronger holy fire energy. It contained pure and clean energy, compared to Underworld energy that had been mixed with demonic energy, making the phoenix faster to increase.

Unfortunately, the fire crystal had been destroyed since the departure of the Phoenix Queen, becoming the main reason why the Phoenix shut down.

Gu Yuena thought, before she went through nirvana where her life and death were uncertain, she better give these children a little help. His strength fused with the Phoenix Queen, so he did not need to pass through nirvana to bring out the core of the holy fire.

Since not everyone had fire as an innate power, not everyone was a match for holy fire. He had to extract the holy fire into a completely pure element. It was like qi, but it was special for the pure power that some elements possessed.

Gu Yuena was a magician, it was not difficult to extract an energy. He took out a holy fire core from one of his hands and began extracting it periodically. The results of the holy fire extract would be placed inside the bright white-colored crystal where it was originally only used as a valuable accessory on the top wall of the palace.

Who would have thought that the crystal shards that Jin Xiao had carelessly placed at the end of the palace since the construction had been used as a holy fire extraction container that had a lot of pure energy and became the treasure of the Pure Element Alliance. It was the source of the power of the Pure Element Alliance.

The glowing red light gradually turned white. It flowed into the wall-mounted crystal and filled each crystal chamber with a stream of white light. He was not afraid of whether the crystal would break or not.

Something that was at Luye Palace couldn't possibly be just trash even though it was unintentionally left here.

The crystal shone very brightly at the top of the palace, attracting the attention of many to look at it. An extremely pure energy was felt, refreshing their minds and giving off an overwhelming feeling when it subconsciously absorbed it.

Once the extraction process was complete, the light on the top of the palace disappeared. The energy that originally came out massively began to slow down and flow smoothly. Gu Yuena injected life energy into the crystal so that the energy within it could continue to flow as long as he was alive. It did exactly what the Phoenix Queen had done in the past.

Everyone in the Pure Element Alliance clearly felt the change. The energy that goes into the meridians in a subtle and gentle way, gives strength to those who originally had weak energy. It really makes them very happy. They clearly felt their strength flowing smoothly compared to before.

Looking at Gu Yuena at the height of the palace, their eyes twinkled brightly. It was their Sacred Leader!

"Your Majesty." They immediately saluted.

Gu Yuena who was pondering for quite a while while injecting life energy into the crystal gasped. He turned around, realizing many alliance members were kneeling to him. Their strength walked in a better direction, Gu Yuena was quite happy to see it.

"Busy, I won't linger here." Gu Yuena let them go.

The faces of the alliance members were extremely complicated at the moment. They wanted to say something, but when Gu Yuena had left, they swallowed their words inwardly.

They just wanted to ask about the crystal shining on that wall. The crystal was small, but it had a dense life energy and cleared their minds. They just don't have the courage.

Although they had great respect for Gu Yuena for giving them new hope in the Pure Element Alliance and meeting them with pure elemental owners who were considered to have low talent, he said, they still did not have the courage to look Gu Yuena in the eyes. One slash of that woman would have a terrible impact. They did not dare to mispronounce or the like which caused the anger of certain women.

After those tense moments, everyone in the Pure Element Alliance was startled by the announcement from Su Churan that the crystal that had special origin energy to train pure elements had been created by Gu Yuena this afternoon at the peak of the Pure Element Palace.

In just a short period of time, everyone cheered happily for having an increased chance and not being the lowest thing among other cultivators. Upon learning of this, Childe hurriedly went to the Palace where Gu Yuena was staying.

However, as soon as he arrived, the figure he was looking for had already left.

"Where's the Queen?" childe asked the guard standing guard outside the palace.

The guard replied, "The queen went to Shui City with His Majesty the King to check the war situation."

"Shui City?" Childe frowned. "Is there something?"

"As far as I know, the lords of the palace are gathered there. As the last defense of the Yi Empire, they would exert full force to suppress Linghun Palace and Wyvernia."

That meant, Gu Yuena would also fight directly on the battlefield. Childe must immediately prepare the Pure Element Alliance to advance at the forefront!