Urban Super Medical Sage

"Tell me about my father." Su Chen was silent for a moment before bringing it up. He noticed that throughout the conversation, the Iceflame Vermilion Bird only talked about his mother and didn’t mention his father at all.

"Better not mention him!!!" The Iceflame Vermilion Bird’s voice suddenly turned cold, with hints of anger, disappointment, and resentment...

Su Chen’s eyes narrowed, increasingly curious: "Speak."

"I can only tell you this: your father is extremely powerful, far stronger than your mother. He was one of the top-level powerhouses on that Plane. Your father was a revered hero and War God among the multitude of Gods on that Plane, adorned with countless accolades and honors. He even established the entire Su Family, and once you arrive on that Plane, you will understand the weight those two words hold."

"Yet even so, I still look down on your father. To others, he may be a hero and a War God, but to me, he’s simply ignorant. Although he and your mother were in love, he watched her being hunted and pressured by the multitude of Gods for the so-called greater good of the Su Family. Even to you, he was indifferent, as if you were not his son at all."

The anger in the Iceflame Vermilion Bird’s voice was unmistakable.

"Is that so?" Su Chen’s eyes flickered, but he showed little emotional reaction.

"All right, one last question. Regarding my bloodline, do you know how I can make it grow faster and unleash its potential?" Su Chen finally asked. This question was crucial. The Ancient Soul Ancestral Vein was indeed very powerful, unbelievably so, but Su Chen was sure not even one percent of its full power and potential had been tapped. Yet, how should he proceed on this path? Su Chen was still exploring, and while Jiuyou and Xi knew a little, it was negligible.

"Didn’t you acquire the Heart of Divine Demon? In the grand scheme of things, you should continue collecting those tablets. With each one you gather, your bloodline will undergo a transformation." The Iceflame Vermilion Bird seemed to know everything about Su Chen, even about the Heart of Divine Demon.

Of course, Su Chen wasn’t too surprised. This bird was his mother’s Demon Beast, after all. It would be strange if it didn’t know.

"What else?"

"What else? Discuss this further after you’ve collected all the tablets. Only then will your Ancient Soul Ancestral Vein truly activate the first phase." The Iceflame Vermilion Bird grunted, "Your bloodline is much more extraordinary than you imagine. Otherwise, how could you become The Taboo Existence?"

"Where are the rest of the tablets?" Su Chen was equally shocked. He thought that after collecting all the tablets, he would have reached the ultimate end of the Ancient Soul Ancestral Vein, unleashing its full power, but he was wrong... He was indeed too young.

"I don’t know. However, your Main Mother once said that there’s another tablet in the Grand Cosmos World within the Flame Plane. It seems the Chaos Divine Kingdom also has one. Altogether, there are three tablets in the Flame Plane. You’ve already acquired one."

"Thank you." Su Chen licked his lips, genuinely surprised. Are there two more tablets in the Flame Plane? It seems that once he reaches the Grand Cosmos World, he will have no worries about advancing in Strength, as finding the tablets would lead to a significant power boost.

"All right, this ends our topic about your lineage. Do not bring it up again in the future." The Iceflame Vermilion Bird took a deep breath and said definitively.

"Okay." Su Chen nodded, equally definitive.

"Next, let’s discuss the Emperor’s Treasure Abyss." The Iceflame Vermilion Bird sighed, "I really want to call you a fool. You have no idea how difficult it is to steal from the Emperor’s Treasure Abyss. Let me put it this way: even if I were not here, and you were ten times stronger, given ten thousand years, you still wouldn’t have a slight chance of stealing anything."

"So, with you here, there’s a chance?" Su Chen’s eyes lit up, his heart racing.

Indeed, he had gambled correctly. He had always known that stealing from the vast Treasure Vault of the Di Family, an immense entity, was extremely unlikely, a dream shrouded in layers of Heavenly Net Earthly Trap.

The main reason he proposed the idea was, frankly, because the Iceflame Vermilion Bird was with him; he gambled that the bird was no ordinary being.

"You do have some brains." The Iceflame Vermilion Bird snorted. It knew Su Chen was scheming against it, but it had no choice but to accept.

As Su Chen had said, aside from that Life-and-Death Reversing Pill, there was no other opportunity to elevate his Strength to the extent needed to save Fei Jin within three months.

In reality, there was no guarantee that even consuming the Life-and-Death Reversing Pill would save Fei Jin, but at least there was a glimmer of hope.

After some thought, the Iceflame Vermilion Bird said, "The Emperor’s Treasure Abyss has Nine Layers. Each layer encased within another, you must progress from one layer to the next. Each contains a Mysterious Divine Lock. The material of the Mysterious Divine Lock is the Five Elements Demon Stone from the Demon Fall Ocean of the Grand Cosmos World. The hardness of the Five Elements Demon Stone rivals that of an Imperial Soldier. There’s no way you can forcibly break the lock, and even your Divine Demon Annihilation can’t cause the slightest damage to the Mysterious Divine Lock made from Five Elements Demon Stone. To open it, you need the key."

"Can you get the key?"

"The key is in Di Jie’s Space Ring. Do you think I can get it? Or you?"

"What should we do then?" Su Chen furrowed his brows.

"I have a special Divine Skill that allows replication!!!" The Iceflame Vermilion Bird revealed a bombshell. 𝓯𝙧𝓮𝓮𝒘𝓮𝙗𝙣𝒐𝒗𝒆𝓵.𝓬𝓸𝒎

"Replication? What do you mean?"

"Replication, what else could it mean?"

Su Chen swallowed hard, a little dazed. Replication? Wouldn’t that make one invincible? Any top-level martial skill, Divine Skill, etc., once displayed in front of the Iceflame Vermilion Bird, could be replicated and claimed by it? It’s a cheat-level Divine Artifact!

"It’s not the kind of replication you’re thinking of. My replication can only replicate the form, not the essence."

"Is that so!" Su Chen’s interest waned. If it only replicated the form, it wasn’t very useful.

Simply put, replicating the form meant creating an empty shell. For martial skills, Cultivation Techniques, etc., the core was their essence, which was akin to the thought and Divine Soul of a person. Without the essence, a person becomes a vegetable, a living dead.

Therefore, replicating an empty shell had no real value.

However.

Suddenly, a thought struck Su Chen: "Replicating an empty shell?!!! It could be very useless! But for... for the Mysterious Divine Lock, it lacks essence right! It’s essentially an empty shell made of Five Elements Demon Stone! Do you mean you want to replicate those nine Mysterious Divine Locks?"