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Fairy Yue glared at Zhang Ling, a hint of anger appearing on her face. Without saying a word, she raised her hand, and a golden treasure mirror flew to the top of her head and began to spin.
Countless golden flames floated out from it, turning into golden lotus flowers all around. There were as many as hundreds of them. These golden lotus flowers did not attack immediately, but rotated and surrounded Fairy Yue in the center.
The golden treasure mirror above her head flashed and directly disappeared into Fairy Yue's body.
Zhang Ling frowned slightly. This woman put away this powerful magic weapon, seemingly with other plans.
His movements were naturally not slow either. He ejected yellow spiritual light, merging it into the earth and rocks that had just been scattered. Several earth dragons condensed again.
The green light of the seven flying swords flashed and danced above his head, transforming into a large expanse of sword light.
Xuan Gui also flashed and came to his side again, standing side by side with him, and glanced down at the injury on his shoulder.
A bowl-sized wound was nothing to a demon cultivator, and could be repaired in an instant.
However, at this moment, the shoulder was a bloody mess, and a layer of golden flame shrouded the wound, constantly corroding the body.
Seeing this situation, Zhang Ling's face turned gloomy.
With a thought, Xuan Gui directly stretched out his other hand and tore off a large piece of flesh from his shoulder and threw it away. The flesh thrown away was burned to ashes by the golden flames attached to it in an instant.
However, this was the simplest and fastest way to remove this flame.
Xuan Gui's(玄龟: Xuan Gui) whole body surged with spiritual power. Although the wound was enlarged a bit, and the entire arm was almost torn off, without the golden flame corroding it, slender blood-colored flesh sprouts emerged from the wound, quickly repairing the injury.
In a few breaths, the missing flesh was replenished. Xuan Gui swung his arm, and a black light flashed in his hand, revealing a bronze long ge(戈: a type of chinese bronze weapon similar to a dagger-axe). Icy spiritual power was injected into it, emitting a dark blue cold light.
Seeing Xuan Gui's(玄龟: Xuan Gui) actions, a hint of surprise appeared in Fairy Yue's eyes. However, her hands were rapidly changing hand seals. Her ten fingers were clasped together, and she continuously changed several hand seals. Then, her five fingers separated, and a red-black small cauldron appeared in her hand.
Zhang Ling glanced at the small cauldron, his face turning pale. Because the style of this small cauldron was the same as the Five Elements Cauldron, could it be one of the five spiritual cauldrons?
From the information obtained from soul-searching the Void Demon True Lord before, the Five Elements Cauldrons were all spirit treasure-level treasures. Once their power was unleashed, he had no confidence that he could block it.
Zhang Ling's mind raced, and he breathed a sigh of relief.
Because he also remembered from the Void Demon True Lord's memory that there seemed to be a fire-attribute spiritual cauldron in Myriad Manifestation City. It was not a real spirit treasure, but an imitation spirit treasure of the fire-attribute Fire Yuan Cauldron among the imitation Five Elements Cauldrons, the Crimson Fire Cauldron.
Fairy Yue held the small cauldron in both hands, looking cautious. With a raise of her jade hand, the small cauldron spun around, turning into a two-zhang(丈: a unit of length, approx. meters) tall crimson giant cauldron.
Dense crimson-golden light threads shot out from it, transforming into a seven-eight zhang(丈: a unit of length, approx. meters) large bird.
This bird was lifelike, like a fire phoenix, with crimson-golden feathers on its wings. Strangely, the feathers on its head and tail were emerald blue.
A cry came from the fire phoenix's mouth. Its wings flapped fiercely, and a crimson-golden fire wave immediately spread to the surroundings.
Zhang Ling could clearly feel a terrifying fire spiritual power rushing towards him even from a distance.
Fairy Yue flashed and stood on the fire phoenix's head. The fire lotuses all around turned into streams of light and all disappeared into the fire phoenix's body.
Immediately, the fire phoenix's body soared wildly, turning into more than twenty zhang(丈: a unit of length, approx. meters) in the blink of an eye. The size increase was not the main thing. The fire phoenix's fire spiritual power increased terrifyingly by four or five times. The circles of fire waves it emitted enveloped the entire sky, and the clouds and mist within several hundred zhang(丈: a unit of length, approx. meters) nearby were instantly vaporized.
While the fire phoenix absorbed the golden flame lotus flowers.
Zhang Ling quickly waved his hand, casting a piece of spiritual light to roll up all the treasures. His body swayed, and one hand rested on Xuan Gui's(玄龟: Xuan Gui) shoulder.
A layer of black lightning immediately appeared on Xuan Gui's(玄龟: Xuan Gui) body, covering the two of them. After a thunderous sound, he and Xuan Gui instantly turned into a ray of lightning and flew away.
Fairy Yue looked at his actions in surprise, and quickly tapped the fire phoenix under her feet. The crimson-golden fire phoenix flapped its wings wildly, also turning into a ray of fire and chasing after them.
She did not expect that the two enemies on the opposite side would suddenly turn around and flee before the outcome was decided.
The two chased and fled, flying over several mountain peaks in a short time. The scene in front of them suddenly opened up, and a large expanse of water appeared, with no end in sight, as if they had arrived above a huge lake.
Xuan Gui directly plunged into the water, and the water stirred, forming a huge water whirlpool.
Zhang Ling stood above the whirlpool, flipped his hand, and put the Thunder Spirit Shuttle in his sleeve.
He had just let Xuan Gui use this treasure to perform Thunder Escape Technique, taking him away. Although it only took a moment, the Thunder Spirit Power in Xuan Gui's(玄龟: Xuan Gui) body had been exhausted, so he naturally could no longer use this treasure to perform Thunder Escape Technique again.
He fled, naturally not really intending to flee. The Thousand Miles Light Escape Talisman on his body had not escaped Fairy Yue's tracking before, so this short distance could not escape this woman's spiritual sense lock.
Sure enough, in a breath, the sky lit up with fire, and Fairy Yue had already chased over. The fire phoenix under her feet had grown to more than thirty zhang(丈: a unit of length, approx. meters) in size. Without hesitation, its wings waved, and countless crimson-golden flames covered the sky, rumbling down like heavenly fire descending.
Zhang Ling stood below, watching all this with cold eyes, and lightly raised his arm. A jet-black bone claw floated in front of him, and spiritual power was frantically injected into it.
The bone claw also swelled up after absorbing spiritual power.
"You suddenly stopped running, are you planning to use this treasure refined by the Void Demon to deal with me? Although this bone claw has an extraordinary origin, you just got it and have never refined it. How much power can you exert?" Fairy Yue stood on the fire phoenix's head, her beautiful hair dyed crimson-gold, and said indifferently.
Hearing this, Zhang Ling was a little surprised. This woman gave him an extremely cold feeling. He did not expect that she would suddenly be interested in saying this during the battle.
"You are chasing me so closely, I can only do my best." Zhang Ling replied equally indifferently.
As he spoke, fireballs had already smashed over. Facing the attack, he seemed not to care. Only the protective cover of the Yellow Canopy Umbrella rotated above his head, still fully urging the bone claw.
This was indeed the case, his attention was not on defense. However, facing a strong enemy, defense was naturally the top priority.
At the same time as the fireballs attacked, the water below shot up, forming a dozen huge water tornadoes, all rushing to the top of his head, forming a large water curtain. Countless fireballs were blocked.
However, these crimson-golden fireballs were not ordinary flame attacks. The water curtain was constantly broken, gradually showing signs of collapse.
At this time, a ferocious beast emerged from the water vortex. It was Xuan Gui revealing its true form, transforming into a hundred-zhang(丈: a unit of length, approx. meters) giant turtle.
Roaring to the sky, it opened its mouth and shot out a stream of water several zhang(丈: a unit of length, approx. meters) thick, heading straight for Fairy Yue in the sky.
One of the reasons why Zhang Ling fled here and stopped was to let Xuan Gui use this water to fight the enemy.
The methods used by this Fairy Yue were mostly fire-attribute attacks. The fire phoenix was also condensed from terrifying fire spiritual power.
Spiritual power generates and restrains each other. If he used the water here, the methods used by Xuan Gui could also be slightly enhanced, gaining some advantage in the battle.
Facing the attack, the fire phoenix controlled by Fairy Yue chirped and swooped down. The crimson-golden sharp beak pecked forward, turning into a golden cone that broke through the water column and crashed directly into Zhang Ling.
Xuan Gui's(玄龟: Xuan Gui) huge head swayed, and a large piece of dark silver glow emerged from the dark and shiny shell on its back, turning into a hazy black silver turtle, covering Zhang Ling.
The golden cone hit it, and there was a loud bang.
Immediately afterward, a flame pillar struck down unceremoniously. The black silver turtle was shattered by more than half, but still stubbornly blocked this attack.
The silver-black glow released by Xuan Gui had amazing defensive power. This was a special shield formed by him using some of his natal demon essence.
Blocking seven or eight powerful attacks was not a problem. But after only blocking two attacks, this shield showed signs of collapse. Zhang Ling was horrified.
Before he could think more, the wind howled in his ears. In a gust of wind, two golden giant claws grabbed over, threatening to clap the shield into powder.
Seeing this scene, Xuan Gui immediately stretched out a pair of claws, and two black lights flashed to the left and right, just to hold the two giant claws.
At the same time, Xuan Gui's(玄龟: Xuan Gui) body quickly rotated, turning into a giant ice ball and rising into the sky, directly crashing into the fire phoenix.
