The kind of damage that strikes directly at the soul is dozens of times more painful than physical injury.
To extinguish the burning sensation on their bodies, the sea soul beasts quickly submerged into the depths.
Although the flames on their bodies were extinguished, the ignited souls could not be quenched by seawater.
Weaker century-level soul beasts were completely incinerated by the undead phoenix flames in just a few breaths.
Powerful ten-thousand-year-level soul beasts could barely hold on with their strong mental power, but even they were unable to control their bodies due to the increasingly intense pain.
At most, they could only escape a few miles before succumbing.
In just a single exchange, all the soul beasts touched by the undead phoenix's flames had perished.
After the undead phoenix absorbed these firelights, the color of the flames on its body deepened slightly, and its aura also increased somewhat.
Compared to the vast number of sea fish, these soul beasts were its true target.
Satiated, the undead phoenix flew to a whale-like soul beast that was over ten meters long, directly grabbing it with its sharp phoenix claws and carrying it towards the direction it had come from.
With a wingspan of a hundred meters, the giant sea soul beast looked like a small fish.
Even carrying a sea fish weighing over ten tons, it appeared effortless.
Endless phoenix flames spewed from its wings, propelling it back to its nest at high speed.
By the time it reached its island, dawn was almost upon them.
A full night had just passed.
After returning to its island, it did not return to the volcano first, but instead came to the forest at the foot of the volcano.
It slammed the sea soul beast heavily on the ground and began to devour its flesh.
Looking closely, one could actually find similar giant beast bones scattered throughout the forest.
A large mouthful of bloody flesh was torn off by the sharp phoenix beak and swallowed into its belly.
Although it no longer had flesh and blood, the flames on its body served as a substitute.
The moment the flesh was swallowed, one could see through the bones of its chest a raging fire enveloping the meat and incinerating it.
In reality, during this process, the flesh was not converted into energy and absorbed into its body.
This was because the soul beast's life force and mental power had already transformed into undead phoenix flames and been absorbed by it the moment it died.
Therefore, this behavior had no real meaning.
It did this perhaps to commemorate its former self, or perhaps it simply retained its former habits.
The undead phoenix devoured the flesh extremely quickly, and before long, the ten-meter-long soul beast was reduced to a stark white skeleton.
After eating, dawn arrived, and its wings erupted with firelight again, propelling its body towards the volcano.
It had to return to its nest before the sun descended.
Although it was a fire-attribute soul beast, as an undead, it hated sunlight.
Flying above the volcano, it could no longer suppress its homing instinct and happily plunged into the magma.
However, just as it flew into the volcano and was about to enter the magma,
a powerful suction force suddenly appeared inside the magma.
This suction force did not absorb air, nor did it stir the magma.
However, it rapidly absorbed fire-attribute energy.
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In an instant, the flowing magma turned into solid rock, blocking the undead phoenix from entering.
Because all of this happened so quickly, the undead phoenix crashed heavily into the rock due to its own speed.
Fortunately, the phoenix bones were very tough and did not cause it any damage.
However, this incident made the undead phoenix extremely angry.
Raging flames erupted from its hollow eye sockets.
The undead phoenix's aura reached its peak in an instant.
However, after the undead phoenix condensed a huge amount of flames, this flame ability did not erupt from its phoenix beak, but instead converged on its wings.
The fiery red wings propelled its body and flew rapidly towards the sky.
Although it was somewhat angry, it was, after all, a veteran of many battles, and faced with this situation, running away was the best option.
The terrifying ability to instantly turn magma into rock, if applied to its body, would surely drain all of its energy.
After its anger subsided, a feeling of fear arose in its heart.
This emotion drove it to flee this area.
But could it really escape?
The moment the undead phoenix turned its gaze to the sky, it was met with an endless darkness.
This darkness was completely different from the dimness of the night sky.
In this darkness, there were no stars, no moonlight, only the endless feeling of about to devour everything.
Without the firelight of the magma, the whole world seemed to fall into darkness.
Here, it could only see the light it emitted.
Faced with this situation, the fear in the undead phoenix's heart grew stronger.
However, this also made it more determined to escape.
In less than a second, its wings erupted with even stronger flames, and it was like a supersonic aircraft, determined to break through all obstacles.
However, even it could not be faster than light.
In the dark space, a blazing white light suddenly appeared.
The light spread extremely quickly, even faster than the undead phoenix.
In just an instant, it completely illuminated the dark space.
Moreover, the brightness of this light was even more dazzling than the undead phoenix's flames.
This, on the contrary, made the undead phoenix unable to see things in front of it more clearly.
However, what frightened it even more than not being able to see was that it was frozen in the air, unable to move, like a photograph being taken.
Not only that, but even the flames erupting from its body were extinguished.
In this blazing white space, no one could move freely except for one person.
And this person had unknowingly come to the undead phoenix's side.
A fiery red figure stood on the exposed back of the undead phoenix, visible through the white light.
And in her palm, she had condensed a light needle that was even brighter than the fire shadow behind her.
Endless streams of light flowed over the light needle, rotating at an extremely fast speed.
The light needle, as thin as an embroidery needle, had no aura at all, and even its temperature could not be felt.
This meant that it had completely contained all energy within it.
Although the undead phoenix could not move, it felt an extremely strong sense of threat.
But it was already too late.
The moment it entered the volcano, it had completely lost its chance.
The fiery red figure aimed her palm at the exposed core of the undead phoenix.
Immediately, a crisp voice rang out.
"Purgatory Instant Shadow Kill!"
