Wait, How Did My Digital Girlfriend Become a Sword Immortal? Chapter 810: The Struggle for the Righteous Wife

"Whew—! At last, things have calmed..."

A breath of relief escaped Chen Huaian as he gazed upon the still form of the Vermilion Bird sprawled on the floor.

For the very first time, he had ascended to the Void Fusion Realm, forming his personal world. Tension had gripped him tightly, with fears that his world might lack sufficient power or link up to the small realms of Cangyun Realm, possibly pulling the Moon Shadow Sect into Earth Star's affairs...

Advantages and drawbacks weighed on his mind.

He wished to spare the Moon Shadow Sect's followers from the tangled fates of Earth Star's endless rebirth cycles.

Yet, should the Moon Shadow Sect actually arrive on Earth Star, it would surely ease his load and boost his odds against the Celestial God Clan.

Luckily, no connection existed between the world of his primary self and that of his clone.

He'd simply observe the merging process once his primary self and clone united down the line.

Chen Huaian retrieved the pill he'd readied beforehand and pushed it into the Vermilion Bird's beak. This Celestial-grade treasure worked wonders indeed. Though the Vermilion Bird lay senseless and couldn't gulp it down, the pill dissolved the moment it touched its mouth, turning into a thread of soft golden power that swiftly coursed through every part of the Vermilion Bird's frame.

That soft golden power at last gathered at the spot of the Vermilion Bird's core. The heart, frozen in stillness before, sprang back to life.

Thump-thump-thump—!

The pulsing rhythm strengthened and intensified, rattling the top floor of the Demon Sealing Pagoda.

As brilliant plumage began sprouting anew on the Vermilion Bird's form and its presence shifted from wild turmoil to serene fortune, Chen Huaian realized the Vermilion Bird's fractured spirit was slowly mending, aided by the Celestial-grade pill.

All at once, a blazing warmth surged toward him.

—Samadhi True Fire burst into flames across the Vermilion Bird's body, its power surging back to full strength.

Its closed lids snapped wide.

A brief gleam of swirling, blazing gold.

The instant after, the Vermilion Bird disappeared right in front of Chen Huaian's sight.

Whoosh—!

A blast of wind laced with sparks tugged at Chen Huaian's garments.

When he finally registered it, the Vermilion Bird loomed directly in his path. Its enormous frame hovered at his back, vast wings throwing a deep, dark shade. Its narrow neck bent in an impossible twist, peering at him from below.

"You... carry the smell of that ancient brute and that vile female on you!"

Ancient brute and vile female?

Chen Huaian didn't need much pondering to identify the targets of the Vermilion Bird's words.

The Azure Dragon and the Phoenix.

Tales claimed the Vermilion Bird clashed with the Phoenix. He'd dismissed it as mere folklore, yet now it appeared the rivalry held truth.

"As heir to the Ancestral Dragon, This Venerable One embraces all Auspicious Beasts with openness, no matter the feuds among you." Chen Huaian declared gravely, keeping his expression composed.

The Vermilion Bird's gaze sharpened, scanning Chen Huaian from head to toe, before it abruptly asked, "That vile female granted you the Phoenix Divine Fire?"

"That's right." Chen Huaian confirmed with a straightforward nod.

"You can't keep her fire. Mine is what you need!" The Vermilion Bird slammed its talon down hard. Flames leaped in its burning eyes, betraying a sour disposition.

"This Venerable One finds your fire quite impressive too. We're grown-ups here. To grow stronger, one would naturally desire both..." Chen Huaian touched his nose, baffled by the Vermilion Bird's jealousy and rivalry.

Unlike the Phoenix's poise, the Vermilion Bird acted like the first wife dealing with a rival's intrusion post-wedding, its whole avian form seething with bitterness.

"No, pick just one!"

The Vermilion Bird locked eyes on Chen Huaian intently. "Since she gave you the Phoenix Divine Fire earlier, your grasp on the Fire Dao must sit at fifty or sixty percent already. Let's see whose fire reigns supreme!"

At those words, a heavy premonition flooded Chen Huaian's chest.

The moment that followed.

Screeeech—!

A piercing cry tore through the air.

Chen Huaian's view drowned in an ocean of furious blaze.

Prior to saving the Vermilion Bird, it had scorched him with flames.

Now, post-rescue, it unleashed fire once more.

And not just any fire—the intensity had more than doubled from before?

Chen Huaian sensed his limits cracking.

With the Vermilion Bird restored to reason and its rank as an Auspicious Beast, Chen Huaian had dropped his defenses around it. He'd permitted its nearness without caution. This sudden assault left him unprepared; even calling forth his sword proved impossible. He could only witness as the inferno swallowed him whole.

Still, the agonizing burn he dreaded never struck.

Another sharp call, utterly unlike the Vermilion Bird's, echoed clearly.

Behind Chen Huaian, a duo of flame-wrought wings unfurled. They folded forward, crafting a barrier to shield him.

At the same time, a deeper blaze ignited across Chen Huaian's form.

"You vile female, lingering here still!" The sight of those flame wings sparked shock and rage in the Vermilion Bird, like a feline with its tail trod upon. It bounded high and beat its wings toward Chen Huaian anew, making the fiery tempest crash down harder.

The rich scarlet phoenix wings, born of Phoenix Divine Fire, thrashed and wavered fiercely before Chen Huaian under the onslaught.

Yet they held firm against the Vermilion Bird's blaze.

Witnessing that, the Vermilion Bird's savagery deepened. Its eyes shifted form, and it plunged as a bird of unadulterated Samadhi True Fire.

A rush of heat stirred inside Chen Huaian.

As though a searing intruder had breached him.

The instant next—

"Bitch! You dare shield him yet!"

The Vermilion Bird's cry detonated straight in his Sea of Consciousness, brimming with scorching fury.

"Quiet!" A crisp, arrogant feminine tone shot back right away. "Is tantrums all you've got when your power falls short?"

Chen Huaian felt like two scolding women bickered in his mind, stirring up a relentless hum.

Worse still, the duel of divine fires beyond his frame abruptly intensified.

The gleaming golden Samadhi True Fire and the intense scarlet Phoenix Divine Fire refused mere surface battle any longer.

Alive with intent, they morphed into twin streams of searing fury and stormed into the channels and bones across his body.

"Argh—!"

Though Chen Huaian's resolve stood firm, a stifled cry escaped him.

His frame turned into a warzone for the pair of mighty Auspicious Beasts.

To his left, Samadhi True Fire raged unchecked. His Meridians scorched like rivers of liquid rock. His flesh gleamed with a fearsome golden tint, venting hot white vapor, resembling a solar orb crashed to the earthly plane. To his right, Phoenix Divine Fire seared with abyssal warmth. That blaze threatened to char the very spirit. Vivid crimson fire motifs crawled under his skin, casting him as a blaze fiend risen from the depths.

Two stark flame forces clashed and ripped wildly inside him.

Every path they carved left his Meridians near rupture, his tissues on the edge of charring away.

Agony beyond measure threatened to overwhelm his awareness.

"Begone! This land belongs to me and the Azure Dragon!" The Vermilion Bird's intent stormed with haughty force.

"Ridiculous! When did the Dragon Soul's heir turn into your sole domain?" The Phoenix yielded not an inch.

Chen Huaian's head spun from the clamor, his innards a tormenting inferno.

He understood this couldn't persist. Lest a victor emerge, he'd burst apart first.

Progress had flowed so seamlessly until now.

He refused to perish in this clash over 'primary consort' status between two Auspicious Beasts.

"Both of you... silence!"

Clenching his jaw with grim determination flashing in his gaze, he unleashed the Heavenly Demon Art to its utmost.

If expulsion failed, he'd absorb and forge them anew!

Dark Demonic Energy erupted from his Dantian.

Rather than clash directly with the divine fires, it slithered like a cunning, shadowy viper around the fiercest clash points, wrenching away and consuming stray threads of scattered flame essence! This tore the pain to new heights, akin to dousing glowing irons with frigid water. Blistering heat and biting chill alternated havoc in his core.

Chen Huaian's complexion drained to ashen, perspiration cascaded in sheets, and his limbs quaked without cease.

But in this excruciating trial, beneath the Heavenly Demon Art's tyrannical forging might, a quiet shift unfolded.

The once sharply divided and hostile Samadhi True Fire and Phoenix Divine Fire, amid the Demonic Energy's compelled merging and tempering, started to weave a peculiar unity at the core of their Fire Dao.

No mere rivalry persisted. Teetering on ruin and renewal, a profound essence gestated.

A barely perceptible spark of disordered hue, as if holding the primal truth of every flame under the skies, silently kindled in the depths of Chen Huaian's Dantian, birthed through boundless suffering.