Rebirth of the Prime Dragon Master
Chapter 58 The Formidable Opponents

"She looks breathtakingly beautiful. Her charm must be at par with that of Marcia's and Lena's.”Rocky observed as he stroked his jaw. His eyes sparkled with admiration. He knew Erica was alwaysquite the beauty, but seeing her up close only reinforced that truth.

Felicia and Erica were warmly welcomed by the crowd. They went across the square, along with theemperor of the Holy Dragon Empire, and sat gingerly on their designated seats at the end of thesquare. The princes including Alston and ministers of the Holy Dragon Empire waiting there madetheir salutations to Felicia to show their respect.

The instant Alston saw Erica, his mind became unsettled.

"Preceptor Felicia, please take a seat.” The emperor of the Holy Dragon Empire respectfully reachedout to invite Felicia.

"Your Majesty, you're welcome." Felicia nodded. She waited for the emperor of the Holy DragonEmpire to sit before she settled herself on the seat of honor beside him.

Then Lena sat down with Erica aside. When chatters and murmurs of the guests simmered down,Priest Dean took a step forward to announce the beginning of the Dragon Birth Festival.

Soon, people sang and danced in the center of the square in an ecstasy of joy.

"Thanks to Her Majesty, we have the great honor to receive Preceptor Felicia at the Dragon BirthFestival of the Holy Dragon Empire. Please send my warmest appreciation to her when you return,”the emperor of the Holy Dragon Empire said with a benign countenance, humbly presentinghimself. As was known by most people, Felicia was the white-haired person of the empress of theMagic Phoenix Empire. She was delegated to take charge of most of the principal affairs in theMagic Phoenix Empire. This showed that she was a person of high influence there. Thus, theemperor of the Holy Dragon Empire had to treat her with utmost respect.

"Your Majesty, you're welcome. Our empires have thrived in good relationships throughout. It's thehonor of the Magic Phoenix Empire to be here to watch the Dragon Birth Festival of the HolyDragon Empire. Her Majesty was very much enthused with your invitation, so she commanded meto take Erica, my disciple, and seven new phoenix spirit manipulators with me. This is a greatopportunity for them to broaden their horizons. They can also exchange experience and skills withthe royal spirit manipulators of the Holy Dragon Empire. From what I've heard, one of the new royalspirit manipulators even fused with the Holy Dragon Bead. As far as I can recall, it is the holytreasure of the Holy Dragon Empire from centuries ago,” Felicia commented, her eyes directly fixedon the emperor's visage.

"You're very much abreast about the information...” The emperor of the Holy Dragon Empire wasboth impressed and taken aback with the mention of the Holy Dragon Bead. He forced a laugh,trying to evade the embarrassing conversation, so he changed the subject and said, "The thirty royalspirit manipulators of the Holy Dragon Empire are preparing there. Where are the seven newphoenix spirit manipulators you've spoken of?"

"Erica." Felicia nodded in Erica's direction on the lower floor, sending her a signal that she was beingsummoned.

Responding to the signal given to her, Erica stood up and whistled. Suddenly, a chromatic shadowof phoenix showed up from a wing of the square. With glittering light, it looked beautiful andsumptuous. Seen from afar, it flew over carrying a few people.

"Is this the Glint Phoenix?" the emperor of the Holy Dragon Empire asked, obviously surprised withthe display before him.

The Glint Phoenix was a breed of rare spirit-manipulated beasts. The Magic Phoenix Empireinherited the ability of the Phoenix Master Clan. Due to this, its phoenix spirit manipulators couldcontrol the phoenix, a higher spiritual creature, which was the only rare spiritual treasure on theWild Spirit Land at par with the dragons. It could also be divided into the war phoenix and thespiritual phoenix.

The Glint Phoenix was not actually the purebred phoenix. It was only considered as a breed ofspiritual beasts. However, it was said that it inherited an extinct capability of the ancient spiritualphoenix. To be specific, it could be reborn after nirvana. On top of it all, it increased its power bydouble after each nirvana. Moreover, the Glint Phoenix was so rare that it was considered muchmore precious compared to some kinds of spiritual phoenixes. Therefore, there were hardly anystories and information about it. Only a few people of the Holy Dragon Empire could recognize it.In addition, the Glint Phoenix had a tendency to be arrogant and disdainful, making it troublesometo discipline. For that reason, it was practically an impossible task to turn it into a spirit-manipulatedbeast.

"Your Majesty, it's surprising that you could recognize the Glint Phoenix. This is the four-starspiritual beast my disciple subdued a year ago," Felicia coolly mentioned, but deep inside shecouldn't help but feel smug of what her disciple gained.

Upon hearing Felicia's words, the emperor of the Holy Dragon Empire and Priest Dean wereastonished. Though they had heard that Erica had a four-star spiritual beast with excellent naturalendowments, they never thought that it would be a Glint Phoenix. Actually, her Glint Phoenix wasn'tremarkable in its current state. But with its inherent ability to increase power after nirvana, in time, itwould surely grow stronger and would take its place in the top ten

"Miss Erica, it is no doubt that your power and capacity is immense since you could tame the GlintPhoenix to be the spirit-manipulated beast of your own," the emperor of the Holy Dragon Empirecommended after a while.

"Thank you, Your Majesty. I'm honored," Erica replied, showing neither indication of being humbleor haughty.

At the point, the Glint Phoenix had arrived at the sky above the head of the emperor of the HolyDragon Empire. Everyone present couldn't help but be stupefied in awe at the amazing scenebefore them. Then, seven figures landed together and got down on one knee before the emperor ofthe Holy Dragon Empire. They said in chorus, "Your Majesty, we are the phoenix spirit manipulatorsfrom the Magic Phoenix Empire.”

"Please stand up. You don't need to do this,” the emperor of the Holy Dragon Empire said as hewaved his hand.

The seven phoenix spirit manipulators stood up at the command of the emperor of the Holy DragonEmpire. The members were composed of five women and two men. The phoenix spiritual power wasknown for being too gentle, therefore most phoenix spirit manipulators of the Magic PhoenixEmpire were women. Very few men have the capacity to become phoenix spirit manipulators. Butonce men could pass as phoenix spirit manipulators, they would be excellent.

Glancing over the seven before them, the emperor of the Holy Dragon Empire and Priest Deandonned a serious expression. They found one of them even had reached the sixth grade of theMortal Stage, two of them at the fifth grade and the rest four between the third grade and thefourth grade.

While on their end, the best new royal spirit manipulators of the Holy Dragon Empire were just atthe fourth grade of the Mortal Stage. The contrast between the two empires was glaring.

"The Magic Phoenix Empire is truly a galaxy of talents,” the emperor of the Holy Dragon Empireapplauded, keeping his composure the whole while.

"Your Majesty, we are nowhere near the Holy Dragon Empire," Felicia humbly mentioned."Preceptor Felicia, what's your plan for the skills exchange? I will ask the royal spirit manipulators toprepare based on whatever you deem worthy," Priest Dean announced.

"What I can suggest is for you to select seven new royal spirit manipulators as the contestants. Then,we can have a wheel battle between the two sides. The loser will be eliminated while the winnerremains. The side that has no contestant to send will lose the battle,” Felicia declared.

The emperor of the Holy Dragon Empire shifted his gaze to Priest Dean as if looking for an answer.Unfortunately, the Priest was as dumbfounded as he was. They stared at each other speechless andstunned at Felicia's proposal. Apparently, it was against the Holy Dragon Empire. But inconsideration of courtesy to guests, it was awkward of them to evade carrying out Felicia's planonce she had asked. Fortunately, they just intended to exchange experience and skills among thespirit manipulators of the two empires this time, so winning or losing was of no great importance.However, if the royal spirit manipulators lost the battle with enormous incongruity, it would be verymuch shameful for their empire.

"Go and arrange it as Preceptor Felicia said,” the emperor of the Holy Dragon Empire ordered PriestDean.

Priest Dean nodded immediately and did as he was told.

Not long after, he came to the rest area.

"Priest Dean..." Mia called as she bowed down

"This comes as a surprise to us, but the phoenix spirit manipulators are so powerful. Although, itmakes sense because they fused with the power of the spiritual race half a year earlier than us,"Priest Dean analyzed as he locked eyes with Mia, but he still sounded a little unconvinced.

"The most powerful of them is merely at the sixth grade of the Mortal Stage. There's no need to beafraid.” An arrogant voice came about.

They all turned their heads, looking for who the owner of the voice was, only to replace that it camefrom Rocky who was dozing in the chair aside.

"You're good for nothing. Even with a few years more, you still can't reach the sixth grade of theMortal Stage. Stop deceiving yourself and others," Priest Dean scoffed with cold eyes.