Seeing Han Zhan fall silent, Luo Chen also began examining the remaining paths. Thirteen paths lay before him. Which one should he choose? As Han Zhan had said, how could he not be tempted by these inheritances? He was a rogue cultivator with neither master nor lineage. Everything he possessed today had been earned through his own efforts. Yet after years of cultivation, he understood one truth better than most: the truly extraordinary treasures, techniques, and inheritances rarely circulated in the wider cultivation world. Almost all of them were hoarded by great sects, mighty factions, and influential figures. Even among everything he possessed, only a handful could genuinely be called exceptional.

The Heavenly Phoenix Nirvana Scripture was one of them. It was very likely the cultivation art once practiced by the demonic phoenix Rosycloud of Green Parasol Mountain, and it had accelerated his cultivation to a level he could not have imagined before. His life-bound enchanted treasure,...