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Chapter 857 591: No Longer Human
Out of nowhere.
Yimiao was rambling over there, and Chen Zhixing was listening with one ear and letting it out with the other, not paying any mind. After chatting idly with the Celestial Saint for a few words, he chose to part ways and returned to Wuyou Immortal Island.
Upon returning home, he looked at Lu Qingqing, who was still lying on the bed in a coma, and a trace of helplessness flashed in his eyes.
"It seems I need to urge Qingqing to speed up her cultivation progress. Her innate talent isn't exactly at the peak, and after more than a hundred years, she's still at the Nirvana Realm, unable to withstand even a bit of released killing intent. In the future, when affection comes into play..."
At this point, Chen Zhixing's expression became somewhat peculiar as he looked at his wife lying on the bed. Suddenly, a hint of desire flashed in his eyes.
He knew this was a side effect caused by his cultivation of the 36 Celestial Spirits Transformations and absorbing the bloodlines of many Spirit Beasts, especially the white dragon's blood. It made him almost daily in a state of boiling blood and arousal. A little provocation would make his desires surge, and he would perform that intimate act with any beautiful being he saw.
"This kind of desire needs to be restrained..."
A family knows its own affairs. In reality, every time he performed a complete intimate act, it caused damage to a High-tier Life Form. Although not much, at Chen Zhixing's current level, even a one-in-ten-thousandth consumption, if calculated in Spirit Stones, could pile up to form a small mountain.
Therefore, high-tier male cultivators generally abstain; otherwise, if they allow themselves to deplete endlessly, even a Vajra Body would exhaust its essence in a few years.
It's even worse for female cultivators!
The first hurdle for female cultivators entering the Dao is to cut the Red Dragon. If they don't, their cultivation will weaken by one-thousandth monthly, creating a perpetual weakening, a hurdle on the path of cultivation.
Even more frightening is pregnancy and childbirth. Normal people are pregnant for ten months, but a high-tier cultivator is pregnant for three years and six months. Giving birth to a child means cultivation stagnates for over three years easily, and if they are not careful, their cultivation might regress by one or even two major realms. If they were to carry a Demon Seed Immortal Embryo, they wouldn't make it to full term before being drained by the fetus themselves.
Therefore, Immortals dread matters between men and women like tigers, and the Celestial Court in the Three Great Immortal Realms set heavenly rules prohibiting romantic affairs between Immortals for a reason.
"Except for dragons."
Feeling the dragon blood within him becoming more agitated, Chen Zhixing slightly frowned, inwardly annoyed by the side effects brought by this dragon blood.
He didn't know if Immortals loved to eat dragon meats, but anything tainted with dragon blood would become excessively indulgent and lustful, making it difficult to suppress this impulse born from bloodlines..... This made Chen Zhixing suspect this was a curse, set by some influential person particularly fond of dragon dishes, to make the Dragon Race reproduce more for their desire to feast.
Three consecutive times, Chen Zhixing stopped himself from peeling off Lu Qingqing's clothes, using sheer willpower.
He took a deep breath, turned around, and walked out of the bedroom.
He couldn't stay any longer.
Although Lu Qingqing didn't have the special attraction to Chen Zhixing like those two phoenixes, since Lu Qingqing was his wife, being intimate was only natural, which created another kind of special attraction for Chen Zhixing.
He headed straight to his retreat location at Ziwei Star Palace.
After closing the door, Chen Zhixing began adjusting his breath anew, simultaneously deciding that when next absorbing bloodlines with the 36 Celestial Spirits Transformations, he must choose a calming Spirit Beast that can suppress the dragon blood's agitation. Otherwise, if his dragon blood continued to riot, he doubted his own resolve could withstand it for much longer.
Yet the problem arose, for he had already absorbed all the Spirit Beasts he fancied in the Celestial Profound Realm, where could he find new Spirit Beast seeds, let alone ones that could suppress his desires?
Subconsciously, a certain image of a phoenix dwelling in the Earth's core flashed across his mind.
"I remember that since the Celestial Court era, there's never been any scandal involving it, maybe I should try absorbing it as a Spirit Beast?"
As he thought about this, warmth ran through his lower abdomen.
Realizing this, Chen Zhixing rubbed his temples.
Back when the Celestial Saint mentioned this Immortal Flame Phoenix to him, wasn't it said to be an asexual Innate Deity?
"I hope it's not female!"
This thought flashed, and the next instant, Chen Zhixing's figure disappeared from Ziwei Star Palace.
At the same time.
Below the ground of the Celestial Profound Realm, at a depth of a hundred thousand fathoms, in a small world filled with magma and lava flows, the residence of the Immortal Flame Phoenix, its divinity-filled eyes opened wide.
Immortal Flame Phoenix, itself was birthed from over twenty thousand years ago when the Celestial Court Emperor Venerable wanted complete control of the world, and upon probing into the center of the Earth to find the 'Heavenly Tao Consciousness,' triggered the Celestial Profound Celestial Tao's self-defense mechanism, birthing this Innate Deity.
In its essence, a Peak Celestial Immortal cultivating Golden Immortal Technique condensed a wisp of Golden Nature. Upon sensing a foreign invasion, it manifested into its present form as an Innate Deity.
Ultimately, this Immortal Flame Phoenix was just a wisp of Golden Nature, merely transformed into a phoenix due to being nurtured by the world.
Then the question arose, does Golden Nature have gender?
The Celestial Saint said no.
Chen Zhixing didn't know.