After being suppressed for thousands of years by mysterious chains and Netherworld Malevolent Qi, the memory fragments within Ice Phoenix's consciousness were scattered and incomplete.
Kurumi only knew that Ice Phoenix possessed the bloodline of an ancient Heavenly Phoenix, with a greater bloodline concentration than a Heavenly Demon Phoenix.
Even when those scattered memory fragments were pieced together, Kurumi could not obtain any useful information from them.
She glanced around a few times. "Let's go."
Ice Phoenix nodded, its eyes dull and lifeless, no different from a puppet.
Kurumi flew upward, but before she had traveled several hundred meters, a surge of baleful energy swept up from below once more.
She moved past Ice Phoenix and looked back. There seemed to be something else down there...
Without another word, Kurumi had Ice Phoenix lead the way while she followed behind the peak magical beast in case anything happened.
The farther down they flew, the heavier the baleful and yin energies became. The two intertwined, even forcing the Netherworld Malevolent Qi aside!
Several Heavenly Flames within her body flickered faintly. Kurumi narrowed her eyes. There seemed to be another Heavenly Flame deep within this rift.
Even the Golden Emperor Burning Heaven Flame had given a slight warning, so it was certainly not some Heavenly Flame ranked below the teens.
Born in a place steeped in frigid baleful energy, amid the countless buried bones of the Bone Mountain Range.
Could it be the Red Lotus Karmic Flame?
The thought had barely arisen before Kurumi rejected it. How could something like the Red Lotus Karmic Flame, which burned away sins, appear in such an icy place?
The ninth-ranked Nine Nether Wind Flame on the Heavenly Flame Ranking?
"Born within the endless Abyss of an extremely yin land, where chilling winds blew without cease