Chapter 1759 — A Strange Turn of Events (Part Two)
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"It seems... it seems the Dark Phoenix bloodline suddenly awakened and resonated with the bloodline in my body..." the Palace Mistress Wan'er said cautiously. "Could it be that within the Palace of the Dark Night there is another besides myself who carries the Dark Phoenix bloodline?"
"That is impossible. If there were, I would be at ease, and I would not spend every day driving you on so relentlessly!" said the Grand Elder. "You are the sole heir of the Dark Phoenix bloodline, and its awakening bears on a great matter after the Heaven-Rank Assembly! If anyone could replace you, I would not have kept you confined..."
The Grand Elder spoke the truth: had there been anyone who could replace the Palace Mistress Wan'er, she would not have treated Wan'er so harshly and exactingly all these years, forbidding her even a single step down the mountain and allowing her only to cultivate in seclusion.
"Then it was..." the Palace Mistress Wan'er asked cautiously.
"I do not know... At first I thought the Dark Phoenix bloodline within you had awakened, but when I came to you, I knew it was not so..." The Grand Elder shook her head and spoke with some regret. "Had you not been deflowered, and given yourself to a mortal, bearing a mongrel of impure blood—would our Palace of the Dark Night have come to this?"
The Palace Mistress Wan'er lowered her head, not daring to argue. In those days, for love, she had acted on impulse—and brought irreparable loss upon the Palace of the Dark Night! Had she instead joined with the young master of the Profound Elixir Sect at the time, that sect had its own miraculous pills and medicines to ensure the child's bloodline be pure. If they had devoted themselves to raising such a child, they could have awakened the Dark Phoenix bloodline within her and made her the heir, and then that great matter could have been done...
But now... the Palace Mistress Wan'er could only do all she could in her cultivation, yet never could she awaken the Dark Phoenix bloodline within her own body...
"Enough. Elder Li, have the Shadow Group investigate what on earth happened to provoke such a phenomenon!" said the Grand Elder. "Wan'er, you continue your cultivation. Time is short—you must advance to the Heaven Rank as soon as possible. Only thus might the Dark Phoenix bloodline within you be awakened!"
"Yes!" the Palace Mistress Wan'er answered.
Throughout the Palace of the Dark Night, hers was the only line that bore the Dark Phoenix bloodline.
Legend had it that her ancestor had inadvertently eaten a fabled Dark Phoenix spirit beast, and so the Dark Phoenix bloodline had entered the body, permitting the inheritance of the Dark Night Spirit Mountain and offering hope of setting foot upon the Heavenly Dao.
But after generations of breeding and inheritance, by the time of the Palace Mistress Wan'er, the Dark Phoenix bloodline in her body had grown thin. Though each generation of bloodline heirs had tried every means to preserve its purity, each generation inevitably suffered some loss.
Still, it was said that the Profound Elixir Sect could call forth its founding ancestor to gather the rare herbs and elixirs of heaven and earth and refine a Marrow-Cleansing Bone-Tempering Pill for Wan'er's child—but only on the condition that Wan'er wed the young master of the Profound Elixir Sect at the time, who was now its sect master.