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Somewhere in the northern hemisphere of the planet, a giant portal was seen floating above the lake that spread about a few square kilometers around.

Floating islands were seen here and there on the lake, and on the top of them, pairs of fire giants were either seen sleeping or fighting against each other.

On the shores, a couple of fire giants were lazily lying around and gossiping about various things.

Ignis: "Say, I heard that Tharnir was stabbed by Ravnak in sleep."

Draknir: "Yeah, I too heard about it. Wasn't that too cowardly? How was Tharnir not punished?"

Ignis: "C'mon, Tharnis had a special background. He was the grandnephew of General Morvak. There would be no way he could get punished."

Draknir: "Morvak was just a squad captain three years ago but after killing a bunch of weakened ice elves and luckily killing a general, his status has been upgraded."

Ignis: "Life's unfair too. We couldn't participate back then and had to guard the borders. General Morvak used the opportunity that he got. Moreover, even though he got a mine as a reward… if he didn't have potential, he couldn't have broken through the immortal realm either way."

Draknir: "Don't you think we have potential? If we get an endless supply of fire crystals, we will become immortals too. Look at both of us. We reached Tier-7 on our own, didn't we?"

Ignis: "Whatever… I just… huh? Draknis… look over there."

Draknis: "Huh… is that?"

They abruptly stopped their conversation and got up, alerting the others with a shout.

"Hey, brothers… an incoming alert… the sky…"

At once, the fire giants went into alert and stared into the sky, where they saw a large ball of flames. As it was getting bigger, and so was the pressure in the surroundings.

But, when it reached visible distance, they saw a flaming bird coming right at them.

The leader of the legion's elite troops, the 20ft fire giant, gave an immediate order, "Attention."

They all stood straight as the visitor reached them and went straight to the world portal.

Mark, in his phoenix transformation, was seen carrying Shang Jiao and Lan Jing in his claws as he flew toward the portal.

No one stopped him and stood there, watching silently as he successfully entered the portal.

However, just as he disappeared from their sight, another figure appeared. It is a fire giant but with wings.

The winged fire giant frowned as he stared at the portal that was brightly glowing, "That was…"

He flew down and descended onto the floating island where the troop leader was standing.

"Lord Torveth… you just missed it," Kelvar spoke as if he was still elated by the earlier scene. "An apostle personally came here."

"An apostle? That's what I sensed earlier?" The winged fire giant mumbled before he asked, "Are you sure it is an apostle?"

Kelvar nodded firmly, "Yes, sir. We saw the immortal phoenix, but only a lot smaller and weaker. No doubt, it is an apostle in training."

"But, why was an apostle here?"

Kelvar replied with a shake of his head, "I'm not aware, sir. But, he was coming from that direction."

"That place?" Torveth stared in the direction and said out loud, "That was in the direction where the intrusion took place." He couldn't help but wonder aloud, "So, an apostle was chasing after them?"

Torveth then flapped his wings and flew away while mumbling, "By right, even an apostle shouldn't have entered this realm without informing our Lord. I should inform him."

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Meanwhile, Mark, in his phoenix form, exited from the other side of the portal, teleporting to a random location on another planet, somewhere in a valley.
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What welcomed him was the sight of dozens of portals all around and a bunch of green-skinned humanoid aliens with horns protruding from their heads.

"Look, it is a firebird." "Idiot, that's not a firebird. Look carefully. It is the Phoenix."

"Hey, an apostle of Phoenix is here." "An apostle of the Divine Phoenix?"

As murmurs passed along in the region, Mark transformed back into a human upon landing on a nearby flat surface; Lan Jing smiled and introduced the place, "Welcome to Null Point, the center of the very celestial existence."

"Null point?" Shang Jiao looked around, "I see a bunch of portals everywhere. Let me guess, each portal leads to a world?"

"Yeah," Lan Jing explained as they walked along, "But since they all look the same, many would often get confused. If one isn't careful, they would even end up in the territory of powerful demonic beasts. That's why many employ the workers here, the race of Tut. They are friendly guides but insult them, and they will turn quite fierce. If you kill a Tut, you would even be banned from this place. Of course, the rules are only for the weak. As long as you are an immortal, you would be pardoned.

Anyway, this place is called the Mountains of Ladakh. All of these portals around will lead you to the third quadrant of the Frostveil Expanse, which is ruled by our family. And the biggest of them all… right there…" Lan Jing pointed at the large portal floating about the peak, "That would take it to our home."

"Umm… excuse me… excuse me sir…" A tut race worker hurriedly caught up to them, stopping them on the path. "Yes?" As Lan Jing took the lead, the worker looked at Mark and asked, "Earlier, I saw your beast form. Are you an apostle of the divine phoenix?"

"Apostle?" Mark blinked in surprise. He suddenly remembered Xin Rui, who was an apostle of Ouroboros. He responded with a rejection, "No, I carry the bloodline."

"Oh, then please excuse me." The Tut worker scurried away, leaving Mark in surprise once again, "what's with the change of attitude? Grand-uncle?"

Lan Jing shrugged his shoulders, "Well, apostles are the messengers of divine beasts and deities." After a brief pause, he then stopped and turned to look at Mark, "But, anyway, I would ask you not to reveal your Phoenix Bloodline while you are at home. We are already in a bad situation. If they find out that your mother married the descendant of a Phoenix, the arch-enemy of our clan, and much less you inherited its powers too, forget about accepting, they might try to execute you instead. And the story is also simple."

"After the death of our grandfather, our mother married a mortal and lived as a civilian until she discovered that we inherited our grandfather's bloodline. She contacted you, and you brought us back to the clan in order to repent the mistakes of your brother. Yeah, yeah, you told us twice already," Shang Jiao looked a bit slightly annoyed for some reason. Her tone was also slightly disrespectful, earning a surprise followed by a frown from Lan Jing.

Mark observed that and he immediately confronted her, "Xiao Jiao?"

Shang Jiao suddenly realized her folly and apologized to both of them, "I'm sorry. It is just that ever since you transformed into the phoenix, I'm feeling heavy discomfort. I guess it is my bloodline. Please don't transform into it, Zhen-ge. I know that you are more than strong enough for that."

"Yeah, don't worry about it…"