128: Chapter 128 Nirvana
Oscar Barry went crazy.
He accelerated continuously, heading towards the place where the Vermilion Bird had fallen.
Oscar Barry had faith.
The object of his faith was none other than the Vermilion Bird.
That was five years ago.
Oscar Barry was still a veteran drug addict.
His body had long since been eroded until he was like a walking corpse.
His body was numb, his nerves dull, and he was so thin he was nothing but skin and bones.
He lived in the surrounding garbage dumps, like a zombie.
Until his girlfriend told him that she was pregnant.
Their child.
In that moment.
Oscar Barry felt as if he had been struck by an electric current.
He was excited for an entire day.
For the sake of the child, he resolved to quit drugs.
He began to exercise.
Fortunately, the recovery of Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi and the practice of the Dao of martial arts gave him hope.
Relying on his Internal Skill practice and using the child as his spiritual pillar, he actually began to slowly overcome his drug addiction.
Although he hadn't completely quit, he was already able to use his own willpower to force himself through it.
Through countless days and nights, and the wails during countless withdrawal episodes, that pain nearly shattered Oscar Barry's sanity time and time again.
If not for the child as his spiritual sustenance, he would have likely collapsed long ago.
Until that day.
She suddenly went into labor.
The frail Oscar Barry painstakingly moved his wife to the car and drove frantically towards the hospital.
But right on the road.
Oscar Barry's drug addiction flared up.
Even though his willpower far exceeded what it had been before, he still couldn't avoid being affected.
Driving the car, he crashed headlong into a large tree.
Oscar Barry desperately endured the pain of the drug withdrawal while holding his wife and wailing incessantly.
In that moment.
Boundless regret flooded his mind.
He hated himself.
He hated that he was a drug addict.
He also hated that he didn't have a strong body.
His beloved wife gradually lost her breath in his arms.
The fetus in her womb also began to weaken.
Oscar Barry's will sank continuously.
It was like sinking into an abyss, melting and dissipating.
He looked up to the sky and wailed in pain.
It was heart-wrenching.
He prayed incessantly for the descent of the divine!
He begged bitterly and incessantly.
He was willing to offer his lifelong faith, and even his own life, to beg for the divine's mercy.
No one could understand the despair Oscar Barry felt in that moment.
But as the saying goes, the greater the despair, the greater the fortune.
The divine descended.
Clad in crimson light, with seven-colored feathers and several complex and magnificent tail feathers, it was as beautiful as a sprite from the mortal world.
Its body, several meters in size, soared through the air.
Its spiritual Phoenix eyes cast a proud gaze down upon the mortal world.
That arrogance was unlike any mortal creature; it was filled with divinity.
A crimson feather fell from the high sky.
The moment it hit the ground, red light spread out.
Wisps of overflowing energy condensed into threads in the air, drifting constantly, slowly gathering toward the fetus in the womb.
Even Oscar Barry was enveloped by a few wisps of crimson light, which then entered his body.
A torrent of scorching heat rushed into his chest.
He coughed up black blood violently.
But his body inexplicably recovered some strength.
Even his will became a bit clearer.
When he regained consciousness, the child was born.
His wife's abdominal cavity had turned to ashes, yet a chubby, healthy baby appeared in the ashes, completely unharmed.
This was a miracle!
This was the descent of the divine!
Afterwards.
Oscar Barry picked up the crimson feather, gripped the burning hot feather, held the delicate baby, and stumbled to his knees before his wife's body.
Afterwards.
He found out the identity of the divine.
The Phoenix.
The Phoenix originated in China.
He didn't know what information he had checked.
Venerable Phoenix became the deity of the Phoenix Sect.
Oscar Barry discovered that the feather looked like a blade, so he modified it slightly to forge a strange long blade.
It was this strange long blade that could channel a wisp of crimson light, and this light could have an effect on drug addicts.
The light was like calcination; it would burn away the toxins in the drug addict's body.
With this method, Oscar Barry successfully began to preach.
However, the people he preached to were all fellow drug addicts.
Five years passed in a flash.
Having seen Venerable Phoenix several times, Oscar Barry and his people also moved to the surrounding area.
Venerable Phoenix had become even more powerful, and their faith had become even more steadfast.
Oscar Barry's eyes suddenly brightened; he stomped his foot and instantly leaped over a hill.
The scene in the distance immediately came into view.
A charred trail appeared on the earth.
Trees were broken, and the ground was churned up.
A behemoth appeared in his eyes.
Oscar Barry stared blankly at the giant beast before him.
It was the first time he had seen his deity so weak, so disheveled.
The flames around the deity's body were spreading wildly.
The forest had been ignited.
Fire-red light filled his entire field of vision.
Oscar Barry's deity wailed in pain and struggled incessantly.
A large amount of blood gushed out.
That blood was extraordinary; as soon as it flowed out and touched the flames, it was like pouring oil on a fire, causing the flames to burn even more intensely.
Under Oscar Barry's dazed gaze.
A large amount of blood was ignited, and snakes of fire spread toward that massive body.
Boom!!!
Scorching flames rose dozens of meters high.
The surrounding forest trees instantly dehydrated, withered, and then were ignited.
The flames burned extremely rapidly.
The crimson flames turned into a huge fireball, with an extremely high temperature.
Even Oscar Barry's skin instantly turned charred black.
Infinite sadness welled up in Oscar Barry's heart, as if the sky were collapsing.
Despair grew.
But the scene he saw next left him stunned on the spot.
The monstrous fireball began to shrink extremely quickly.
As if it were burning out.
But that was not the reason Oscar Barry was stunned.
A ball of light appeared in the center of the fireball.
As the fireball shrank, that ball of light was revealed first.
An egg!
A pure white egg.
As soon as the pure white egg appeared, it displayed extraordinary energy.
The infinite surrounding flames began to shrink and diminish.
They actually flowed like water toward the pure white egg, finally merging into it.
Finally, having absorbed all the flames, the pure white egg fell to the ground.
The thick ashes on the ground were charred and black.
Yet that egg was blindingly white.
Black and white.
It cast a layer of holiness over the egg.
The remains of half of the Phoenix's body stood lonely, while the other half had turned to ashes.
Gulp!
Oscar Barry watched this scene and forced himself to swallow.
His eyes were fixed.
"...Nirvana?!"
He suddenly thought of the information he had checked.
The reason the Phoenix could be called the Phoenix was precisely because they could be reborn through Nirvana.
Every time they died, they could be reborn from the ashes through Nirvana.
Could it be?!
Oscar Barry's eyes lit up.
In an instant, his despair vanished.
He took action immediately.
A massive amount of Internal Energy swept out, directly snatching the Phoenix egg from the air.
With the warm Phoenix egg in hand, Oscar Barry glared hatefully at the soldiers who were closing in from the distance.
He fled behind him without looking back.
Fast!
Fast!
Faster!
I need to be even faster!
Oscar Barry had a crazed expression as he kept accelerating.
Like a gust of wind, he crossed a distance of several kilometers and appeared at the gathering camp.
Whoosh!
He was like a streak of black light, rushing directly to the center.
Grabbing his daughter, Oscar Barry disappeared from the camp in an instant.
Leaving only a secret voice transmission that fell into one person's ear.
"Wait for me!!!"
Everyone was unaware of what had happened.
They stared blankly at this scene.
But immediately afterward, they were surrounded by a large number of troops.
...
"Did you find him?!"
Fang Rui stood before the Vermilion Bird's remains and asked in a cold voice.
"Report, Commander, we did not find him. We found his residence, but according to our investigation, these people do not know what Oscar Barry took!"
The soldier replied in a deep voice.
Fang Rui looked at the massive remains before him, his eyes as cold as bone-chilling frost.
"How is the image data analysis going?! What exactly did he take!?"
Fang Rui turned around abruptly.
No matter what had been taken, a portion of the spoils that belonged solely to their Joint Forces had been intercepted.
This was simply snatching food from the tiger's mouth.
"Report, according to big data analysis, we suspect that it was an egg!"
"An egg?!"
Fang Rui looked at him in surprise.
Seeing the other party nod, he fell silent.
Turning around, he looked at the massive remains before him, his pupils shrinking to pinpoints.
Why would it be an egg?!
Could it be that it could lay eggs!?
After thinking for a long time, although he didn't know what the outcome would be, Fang Rui knew that the Joint Forces might not be able to disband so quickly.
...
Ten days later.
Artillery fire roared.
Oscar Barry held his daughter in his arms, protecting the basketball-sized Phoenix egg, and broke through heavy blockades.
He plunged directly into the sea.
If a Peak First-Class Martial Artist wanted to escape, even an Innate expert would have to go to some trouble if they weren't careful.
Huge waves swallowed up Oscar Barry's tracks.
The pursuing Joint Forces looked at the sea hatefully, their expressions annoyed.
Their luck was a bit bad; they were always finding loopholes with this guy.
Several times, they were just a little bit short.
The soldiers beside him were annoyed, but Fang Rui stood on the shore with a calm expression, watching the rolling waves, a trace of something strange flashing imperceptibly in his eyes.
I hope you live a little longer!