The Medallion

"Oh really?" Rocky asked with his eyebrows raised in surprise.

"Matriarch, are you really going to tell him?" The elders and advanced ordinary spiritual beings of the Phoenix Master Clan, as well as Felicia and Erica, were also shocked. They didn't understand why the matriarch had changed her mind and why she was planning to tell Rocky the truth.

"Well, I think he can do something that not even we can do. So it might not be a bad thing to let him know the truth," explained the matriarch. Then she turned to Rocky and said, "Prince Crimson, follow me." With that said, she left without a backward glance, leaving the others with disbelief still written on their faces.

When she was gone, their watchful eyes followed Rocky instead, but he soon left to follow the matriarch.

Not long after, they stopped at the gate of a sacrificial hall not far from the nest of the legendary guardian beast.

As he approached the sacrificial hall, Rocky could clearly feel a powerful demonic aura coming from it, which was very similar to the aura emitted by the mutated spirit manipulators and the Ice Phoenix Queen.

"Where are we?" Rocky asked as he spun around and cast a curious look at his surroundings.

"This sacrificial hall is one of the forbidden areas of our Phoenix Master Clan. No other members are allowed to enter here, except for me and several elders. But today, I will make an exception for you." As the matriarch finished speaking, she walked into the hall and gestured for Rocky to follow her.

coming from, but the hall was as bereft as the day it was built. There was nothing but a black and cyan cauldron, which came up almost

he had encountered it before. More than that, he felt

the Demonic Soul Cauldron. It was used to suppress the soul of the most powerful demonic beast in the ancient times. However, a few days ago, several formidable spiritual masters of the spiritual race broke into this sacrificial hall and forced the Demonic Soul Cauldron open, so the soul sealed inside escaped." The

held the most powerful demonic beast in the ancient times? I've only heard of ancient spiritual beasts before." It was the first

the members of the spiritual race as food. For this reason, the spiritual race had no interest in preserving them, so they later became extinct. As for the herculean demonic beast in the ancient times, it was said that it had lived for over a thousand years before it was suppressed inside the cauldron. It was so formidable that its soul remained intact even after its body was destroyed, so it had to be suppressed in the cauldron," the matriarch explained.

the most powerful demonic beast in the ancient times? But if that's the case, what made the spirit manipulators in the martial arts contest mutate?" Rocky

demonic beast from the ancient times had been refined by the former owner of the cauldron into an original soul and countless

refine it?"

is a taboo object. Since it was brought back to our clan, it has been frowned upon and perceived as dark and dangerous. That is why it had been sealed in this hall, and no one is allowed to get close to it. This time, however, it was opened, and the original soul and countless remnant souls escaped. Although we arrived to stop some of them in time, many of them escaped and scattered all over the Magic Phoenix Empire. The mutated spirit manipulators that you saw in the martial arts contest were all affected by the scattered remnant souls. The reason why our legendary guardian beast has become like that is that it has devoured the original soul of the most powerful demonic beast from the ancient times," the

a question, though. If the cauldron didn't belong to your clan, where did it come from? Based on what you said, it should have existed for long.

tell you that." It seemed that Rocky had hit a stone wall in his investigation, as the matriarch didn't look willing to answer any more of his questions. He decided to shelve that

time, peering closer at it before glancing at the matriarch questioningly. "Can

was killing him, and his body felt like

nod, he approached the cauldron on the central platform of the hall. With every step he took, he felt the evil power in his body as