"What vile little fiend dares provoke us disciples of Qinghua?"
With a fire banner in one hand and the other planted on his hip, Qin Yan stood amid the flames in awe-inspiring majesty, like a fire god descended to the mortal world.
The Golden Core disciple of the Qinghua Dao Sect gazed into the dense mountain forest, his vision utterly unimpeded by the fog. His eyes fixed directly on the black crow crouching in a tree, his expression full of contempt. "Did you really think we couldn't sense your movements?"
They had detected the black crow's movements long ago. Thanks to Xia Leng'an's Spirit-Seeking Mouse, Qin Yan and the others had already noticed something amiss outside the cave. They had merely feigned ignorance to lure the watcher into striking.
Now that the watcher had exposed itself and been confirmed as an evil spirit, Qin Yan naturally would not hold back.
"A mere otherworldly fiend, a barbarian beyond civilization-you probably don't even know what the Three Realms are. Truly, the ignorant know no fear."
"I imagine you have some connection to whoever attacked our Qinghua Dao Sect over the East Sea. Let me capture you and question you thoroughly!"
Before his words had faded, Qin Yan swept the Red Fire Banner in his hand. The countless flames surrounding him gathered in clusters with the banner's movement, as though granted intelligence, finally becoming a furious dragon with scales flared and claws extended. The Red Fire Furious Dragon roared skyward, then lunged through the air toward the sea of trees, heading straight for the black crow.
Seeing that its whereabouts had been exposed, the black crow's flesh split between its brows, and another eyeball emerged. Unlike a bird's eye, it looked exactly like a human eye. As it squeezed out of the flesh