Demon Lord (Dragon and Phoenix Bring Good Luck 2): All living beings on this continent saw the dragon and the phoenix ascend together.

Above the Nascent Soul stage was the Soul Formation stage.

Cultivators, starting from the Golden Core stage, would produce some phenomena during their advancements. Naturally, advancing from the Nascent Soul stage to the Soul Formation stage also came with its own phenomena.

Thus, late at night, everyone felt the fire-attribute spiritual energy of the southernmost region surging toward the Demon Lord’s carriage-like magical artifact. Not long after, they also sensed someone inside the artifact advancing from the Nascent Soul stage to the Soul Formation stage.

At the same time, a phoenix bathing in flames appeared in the sky above the artifact.

Earlier, after the Qingyun Sect Leader had spoken with the Demon Lord, the righteous cultivators learned from him that the Demon Lord had obtained Phoenix blood and saved Gu Juntian.

The Qingyun Sect Leader didn’t elaborate further, but everyone was already filled with awe, thinking that Gu Juntian’s luck was truly extraordinary.

For anyone else, after their Nascent Soul shattered and their cultivation was lost, there would be no chance of recovery.

But Phoenix blood! Who knew how the Demon Lord had obtained it?

Just as everyone was marveling at this, Gu Juntian advanced to the Soul Formation stage.

A Soul Formation stage cultivator under a hundred years old—truly a force to be reckoned with!

And wasn’t this related to the Demon Lord?

Why hadn’t the Demon Lord taken a liking to them?

Gu Juntian was unaware that a large group of people outside were envious of him.

At the moment, he was feeling a bit frustrated.

He had wanted to spend more time being close to Zhou Qinghao, but accidentally ended up advancing in cultivation.

Once the advancement began, he and Zhou Qinghao couldn’t do anything else, which was a pity.

Fortunately, they could continue after the advancement.

Now at the Soul Formation stage, Gu Juntian pounced on Zhou Qinghao again.

Zhou Qinghao pinched Gu Juntian’s arm and happily hugged him.

He had never imagined that Gu Juntian would turn out to be so… unrestrained.

But he didn’t dislike it.

He enjoyed being close to Gu Juntian.

At the same time, Gu Juntian felt a sense of relief.

After returning to his true form, he had specifically used two drops of his heart’s blood to enhance this body.

Now, the strength of this body was no less than that of a dragon.

This was a good thing; otherwise, he might not have been able to satisfy Zhou Qinghao.

After all, Zhou Qinghao was a dragon!

They had invited the Qingyun Sect Leader to visit again the next day, but given the current situation, that was clearly impossible.

Gu Juntian took a moment to send a message to the Qingyun Sect Leader, explaining that he needed to stabilize his cultivation. For the entire day, neither he nor Zhou Qinghao saw anyone.

Gu Juntian spent three days stabilizing his cultivation. By the time he reappeared, he had reached the late stage of the Soul Formation stage.

This rapid progress was due to the two drops of Phoenix blood and his dual cultivation with Zhou Qinghao.

No, it couldn’t even be called dual cultivation—it was more like absorption.

Zhou Qinghao’s current strength was a bit too overwhelming. If left unchecked, in a few decades, he would become a force too powerful for this world to handle, just like the Phoenix.

To allow Zhou Qinghao to enjoy more time in the cultivation world, Gu Juntian had no choice but to work hard at absorbing Zhou Qinghao’s energy. It was quite exhausting.

The people outside, however, didn’t think Gu Juntian was suffering. They were all envious of him.

Gu Juntian had only been a Nascent Soul stage expert a few days ago, and now he was already at the late stage of the Soul Formation stage!

They wanted that kind of progress too!

But all they could do was dream about it.

After Gu Juntian reappeared, he announced that he and the Demon Lord would hold a soulmate ceremony. Only then did everyone realize that the two had already formed a soulmate bond.

There was no room for anyone else to interfere.

Gu Juntian and Zhou Qinghao planned to hold the ceremony at the Qingyun Sect.

The Qingyun Sect had taken great care of Gu Juntian in the past, so he held the sect in high regard. As for Zhou Qinghao, staying in the cultivation world was far more comfortable than remaining in the Demon Abyss.

The Demon Palace had been destroyed, and the treasures from both the Demon Palace and the Phoenix were now carried with him… At this point, he had no desire to return to the Demon Abyss and only wanted to enjoy himself in the cultivation world.

There was still animosity between the righteous cultivators and the demonic cultivators, and Zhou Qinghao’s relationship with the four demon kings wasn’t great either… That very day, he expelled the four demon kings and the other demonic cultivators, keeping only the plump and skinny demonic cultivators by his side.

After all, with his current strength, he didn’t need the protection of the Demon Abyss forces.

Moreover, even after sending these people away, he still had six dragons to pull his carriage and over a hundred dragons to guard him.

After Zhou Qinghao signed soul contracts with the Dragon Queen and the Fourth Elder, forcing them to pull his carriage as well, the dragons of Dragon Island finally quieted down.

The ordinary dragons of Dragon Island, seeing that Zhou Qinghao was a five-clawed golden dragon, were more than willing to follow him.

The descendants of the elders had grievances against Zhou Qinghao, but since he held the lives of their relatives in his hands, they didn’t dare to act out.

In the end, all the dragons of Dragon Island, except for Ao Jin, were at Zhou Qinghao’s command.

As for Ao Jin… after Zhou Qinghao emerged from the volcano and publicly transformed into a five-clawed golden dragon, Ao Jin fled. No one knew where he went.

Zhou Qinghao had no intention of looking for him.

For a time, he had hated Ao Jin and wanted to kill him. But after learning that Gu Juntian had only followed Ao Jin in the past because he saw him as a potential food source, Zhou Qinghao stopped caring about Ao Jin.

Although being thrown into the Demon Abyss and the demon kings’ attempt to extract his inner core were somewhat related to Ao Jin, Ao Jin himself had never directly caused him trouble, so Zhou Qinghao couldn’t be bothered with him.

He would rather spend that time letting Gu Juntian absorb his energy.

Zhou Qinghao first accompanied Gu Juntian to the Qingyun Sect to hold their soulmate ceremony, and then he continued traveling the world in his carriage pulled by six dragons.

During his travels, righteous cultivators always followed him.

At first, these people were wary, but later, their reasons became more varied.

Those with lower cultivation levels came to broaden their horizons or to explore the culinary and scenic delights of the cultivation world alongside them.

As for those with higher cultivation levels, they sought opportunities to discuss cultivation matters with the Demon Lord.

It was well known that after meeting the Demon Lord, as long as you praised him and Gu Juntian as a match made in heaven and said a few nice words, the Demon Lord would be happy to chat with you.

During the conversation, if you asked a few questions, the Demon Lord would even answer them.

There was a master of formations who couldn’t figure out a particular formation, but the Demon Lord understood it at a glance.

There was an alchemy master who couldn’t refine a certain pill because one of the herbs in the recipe had gone extinct. After studying the problem, the Demon Lord provided an alternative solution.

When the Demon Lord was in a good mood, he would even gift the low-level cultivators following him with pills he had refined himself!

In short, following the Demon Lord came with many benefits.

That’s why there were always so many people trailing behind him, and countless legends about the Demon Lord spread throughout the cultivation world.

At the same time, Gu Juntian became the most envied person in the entire cultivation world.

Since becoming the Demon Lord’s soulmate, his cultivation had skyrocketed, and his lifestyle surpassed even that of the Transcendence-stage cultivators in the cultivation world.

They wanted that kind of life too!

One day, in a tavern in the cultivation world, people were discussing Gu Juntian: “Have you heard? Gu Juntian has reached the Transcendence stage.”

“He’s only a little over a hundred years old, and he’s already a Transcendence-stage expert. He’s truly the first in history!”

“It’s so enviable!”

“It’s not just envy anymore—it’s jealousy. Why didn’t the Demon Lord take a liking to me?”

“At first, some people said he was forced by the Demon Lord, but looking at it now, what kind of coercion is this? Over the years, Gu Juntian has done whatever he wanted, and the Demon Lord has always listened to him.”

“It’s not something you can envy; we don’t have his skills. Not only is he handsome, but he’s also a master alchemist and a master craftsman. How can ordinary people compare?”

…

Over the years, Gu Juntian had been refining some elixirs and magical artifacts for the people of Qingyun Sect.

They were all top-notch treasures!

He was a prodigy by nature, and even without the Demon Lord, he had his own capabilities.

As they were chatting, the storyteller in the tavern began: “Ladies and gentlemen, today I will tell you the love story of the Demon Lord and Immortal Gu…”

There were many versions of the love story between the Demon Lord and Gu Juntian circulating in the cultivation world.

Everyone knew that these were probably false, but they still loved to listen.

Everyone listened attentively, except for Ao Jin in the corner, who didn’t want to hear it at all.

These years had not been kind to Ao Jin.

Fearing that Zhou Qinghao would kill him, he fled early and had been wandering ever since.

His personality was not good, and he easily offended people. At first, he suffered a lot, but later he learned to keep a low profile, and life became a bit easier.

In fact, he should be grateful to Zhou Qinghao. Several times when he was nearly killed, the other party discovered he was a dragon and, fearing retribution from the Demon Lord, spared his life.

But while his life was spared, injuries were unavoidable, and now he had lost count of how many wounds he had suffered.

Ao Jin grew increasingly resentful toward the Dragon King and the others.

It was those dragons who overly indulged him, not raising him as an ordinary child but treating him as the future Five-Clawed Golden Dragon, catering to all his unreasonable demands, which fostered his terrible temperament and led him to offend Zhou Qinghao.

It was all the Dragon King’s fault!

And that Gu Juntian was no good either. He once claimed to love Ao Jin, but then quickly shifted his affections.

As Ao Jin seethed with anger, he saw his enemy approaching.

His face changed color, and he hurriedly fled.

He knew that his life from now on would likely continue like this.

In truth, this life was much better than the one Zhou Qinghao had initially led in the Demon Abyss, but Ao Jin still felt miserable.

However, the Dragon King and others who pulled Zhou Qinghao’s chariot probably suffered even more.

Gu Juntian had always thought that with him as Zhou Qinghao’s cultivation partner, the time it would take for Zhou Qinghao’s strength to reach the world’s limit would be delayed.

But it wasn’t delayed by much.

By the hundredth year since Gu Juntian arrived in this world, the world could no longer withstand the immense power of Zhou Qinghao.

Zhou Qinghao had to either enter a deep slumber or ascend.

He and Zhou Qinghao chose the latter.

On this day, they returned to the southernmost land for the second time.

The crater of the dormant volcano they had visited before now bore additional remains, clearly from those who had coveted the Phoenix’s blood, attempted to break the formation, and died there for various reasons.

Ignoring these, Gu Juntian and Zhou Qinghao skillfully opened the formation, found the Phoenix’s true body, and then Gu Juntian entered the body. Using the cultivation from his divided form and some of his own, he rebuilt the celestial ladder, ascending together with Zhou Qinghao.

On this day, images of a dragon and phoenix appeared in the sky over the continent, and all living beings witnessed the scene of the dragon and phoenix ascending together.

At first, everyone was stunned.

Wasn’t the Golden Dragon supposed to be with Gu Juntian? Why was it with the Phoenix?

But then they saw the Phoenix transform into a human figure, and who else could it be but Gu Juntian?

So, that was why the Demon Lord had so easily obtained the Phoenix’s blood back then—Gu Juntian was the Phoenix?

Wait, they had always thought Gu Juntian was the Demon Lord’s delicate consort, but looking at this situation, could it actually be the other way around?

Regardless, the auspicious pairing of the dragon and phoenix meant that the people of this continent could now ascend once more.

And the legends surrounding Gu Juntian and Zhou Qinghao continued to grow.

Unfortunately, although the dragon clan had produced a Five-Clawed Golden Dragon, they reaped no benefits, and some among them would spend their entire lives in regret.