69: Chapter 69 Raising a free-range chicken turns out to be a phoenix!

Changge Peak, inside the small courtyard.

As soon as Su Changge returned, he impatiently flopped onto the rocking chair and let out a long sigh of relief.

"Oh my god, I'm exhausted."

Pretending to be cool in front of hundreds of thousands of people just now, while having to maintain the demeanor of a Master at all times—for someone with social anxiety like him, it was simply more tiring than getting into a fight.

However, when he opened the System panel and saw the generous rewards, all his fatigue vanished in an instant.

【Words Become Law (One-time Trial Card)】: After use, it allows the Host to speak one sentence that forcibly twists reality within a certain range, making it true. The intensity of the effect is related to the consumption of emotion points.

【Resurrection Coin】: When the Host suffers a fatal attack, this coin can be automatically consumed to negate the attack and revive the Host on the spot with full health.

"Hiss—" Su Changge looked at the descriptions of these two rewards and gasped.

This... this is simply two trump cards of legendary caliber!

Words Become Law means he has gained a chance to become a "True God"!

The Resurrection Coin gives him, this King of Caution, the greatest safety guarantee!

"Awesome! So awesome!" Su Changge felt his sense of security instantly skyrocket.

His gaze then fell on the final reward.

【Mysterious Gift Package】.

"Come on, let me see what good stuff is inside!" He rubbed his hands together, filled with the excitement of opening a blind box, and selected "Open."

【Ding! Congratulations to the Host for opening the [Mysterious Gift Package] and obtaining the following items:】

【1. System Function Upgrade Card x 1 (Can be used to upgrade or unlock a System function).】

【2. [Spirit Feeding Pill] x 1 bottle (100 pills in total).】

【3. [Phoenix Essence Blood (Diluted Version)] x 1 drop.】

"System Function Upgrade Card?" Su Changge's eyes lit up.

He immediately opened the System function list and discovered that, in addition to existing functions like 【Special Effect Customization】 and 【emotion points Exchange】, there was a grayed-out section displayed as "Locked."

【Pet Raising System】.

"This looks fun!" Su Changge was immediately interested. As a modern person, who hasn't played a few games with pet Systems?

"System, use the upgrade card to unlock this 【Pet Raising System】!"

【Ding! Confirm unlocking the [Pet Raising System]?】

"Confirm!"

【Ding! [Pet Raising System] successfully unlocked! New gameplay and new fun await the Host's exploration!】

A brand-new interface appeared on Su Changge's System panel. It had various options like Pet Slot, Pet Status, and Pet Skills, looking quite professional.

Su Changge looked at the empty Pet Slot and felt troubled.

"Where am I supposed to find a pet?"

He couldn't just go to the back mountain and catch a Yao Beast, right? That's too dangerous.

His gaze swept across the courtyard and finally landed on the chicken coop in the corner. There, he kept a few common large chickens, which he raised to achieve "Spirit Egg freedom."

"Got it!" Su Changge slapped his thigh, "I'll use you lot for the experiment!"

He cast his gaze back to the other two items from the gift package.

【[Spirit Feeding Pill]: A special feed made from highly compressed Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi, which can be used to feed Spirit Beasts and has a certain chance to stimulate their Bloodline potential.】

【[Phoenix Essence Blood (Diluted Version)]: Essence blood containing a trace of the ancient Divine Beast Phoenix Bloodline. If consumed by mortal creatures, there is a very small chance of causing a Bloodline mutation, evolving towards a Phoenix.】

Su Changge looked at these two items, and a bold idea sprouted in his heart.

"If... I mix this Phoenix Essence Blood into the Spirit Feeding Pills and feed it to these chickens..."

"Then... could I raise a Phoenix?"

Thinking about being able to eat fresh "Phoenix eggs" every morning, Su Changge was almost drooling.

He did it without delay! He immediately dripped that drop of precious Phoenix Essence Blood into a Spirit Feeding Pill, rolled it between his fingers, and threw it into the chicken coop.

"Cluck-cluck!" In the chicken coop, the largest, most robust rooster with the reddest comb was quick-eyed and sharp-beaked, pecking the pill, which emitted a strange fragrance, into its stomach in one gulp.

After eating it, it crowed triumphantly twice, as if showing off. Su Changge didn't pay it any mind and threw a few more ordinary Spirit Feeding Pills inside for the other hens to share.

After doing all this, he went back to sleep, feeling very satisfied. He didn't know that this unintentional act of his was about to cause waves in this world.

...

Meanwhile.

In the Eastern Wasteland, in a hidden forbidden land shrouded in endless darkness and Chaos Laws.

This was the "Eternal Seal" set up in the ancient era by a peerless mighty figure at the cost of their own life.

At the center of the Seal, a terrifying demonic shadow, ten thousand zhang tall and bound by countless thick chains of Laws, had been sleeping for untold tens of thousands of years.

Just at the moment Su Changge was preaching the Dao and triggered the resonance of the Heavenly Dao, this demonic shadow, whose eyes had been tightly closed for ten thousand years, slowly opened them a crack.

"Hmm...?" An ancient and hoarse whisper echoed in the dark space.

"The Laws of this world... why are they fluctuating so violently? Is some old friend waking up?"

His Divine Thought, like invisible tentacles, instantly pierced through the Seal and swept across the entire Eastern Wasteland continent.

He saw the soaring Golden Dragon of Luck in the Yaoguang Holy Land, the Buddha light illuminating the Myriad Buddha Temple, and the sleeping Yao God in the Primordial God Mountain...

But none of these stirred any interest in him. These "juniors" were too weak.

His Divine Thought finally landed on the source that triggered the Heavenly Dao resonance—Taixuan Sect, Changge Peak.

He "saw" the young man in white lying on the rocking chair, looking completely ordinary.

"Return to Simplicity? No... why can I not sense any Karma on him?" The demonic shadow made a sound of confusion.

Just then, he suddenly sensed a trace of a Divine Beast's aura on Changge Peak—extremely faint, yet incomparably pure.

That aura came from... a rooster crowing in the chicken coop? That rooster had just swallowed a drop of... Phoenix Essence Blood?

The demonic shadow fell silent. After a long while, his low laughter echoed in the darkness, carrying a hint of amusement.

"Interesting..."

"Really, how interesting."

"A variable whose Karma cannot be seen through, a pet about to transform from a common chicken into a Divine Beast..."

"It seems that in the tens of thousands of years I've been asleep, this world has undergone quite a few interesting changes."