Phoenix Tattoo

Zi Ji was a pure-blooded member of the Dragon Clan. Though her cultivation had not yet reached three hundred thousand years, her powerful Dragon Clan bloodline meant that only a level ninety-eight Super Douluo could defeat her.

Of course, that was without Battle Armor.

Xia Yi frowned. No matter who won or lost if Zi Ji fought someone here, it would be detrimental to her.

This was near Heaven Dou City, after all.

If the fight continued, it might draw a siege from human powerhouses.

"What's going on?" Mu Xi looked at Xia Yi, her pretty face drained of color.

Although Zi Ji's battle was taking place above the clouds high in the sky, the powerful aura still left her nearly unable to breathe.

"I don't know. We're leaving." Without hesitation, Xia Yi started the soul-guided sedan, accelerated, and shot forward.

He did not know what was happening, nor did he know who Zi Ji was fighting.

But if Zi Ji had been called an unexpected gain, then that meant the other party's original target had not been Zi Ji.

If it was not Zi Ji, then there had to be another target.

And that target was very likely Xia Yi.

Only by following Xia Yi could they discover Zi Ji.

With Xia Yi's current strength, he could not help Zi Ji. But if the person above was targeting him, then his escape would definitely distract her. As long as she was distracted, Zi Ji would have an opportunity.

Just as Xia Yi had expected, the other party's target was indeed him.

The moment his soul-guided sedan started, a black flame suddenly shot down from the clouds with a hiss. The instant it hit the ground, it blazed into a wall of fire several meters tall, blocking his path.

"The target really is me!" Xia Yi muttered, turning the car around and fleeing in another direction.

Hiss, hiss! Two more flames fell, blocking Xia Yi once again.

"Roar!" An impassioned dragon's roar rang out as a purple vortex suddenly appeared beneath Xia Yi's car.

Before Xia Yi could react, a terrifying suction force swallowed him, Mu Xi, and the soul-guided sedan.

"It's useless. This place has already been covered by my Battle Armor Domain. No one can teleport away!" A cold voice rang out from the sky.

Sure enough, black flames blazed fiercely in the depths of the purple vortex.

The terrifying heat made Zi Ji frown repeatedly. If she forcibly teleported them, Xia Yi and Mu Xi would likely be burned without even ashes remaining.

"Break!" Zi Ji shouted. Terrifying purple energy condensed into a small dark-purple dragon about a meter long and smashed fiercely into the black flames.

Only a trace of that terrifying energy leaked out, yet it directly knocked Xia Yi and Mu Xi unconscious.

With a boom, a violent explosion erupted. As the purple dragon dissipated, the black flames were instantly ground away as well.

The instant the black flames vanished, the purple vortex erupted with suction far greater than before, instantly dragging Xia Yi, Mu Xi, and the soul-guided sedan inside. They vanished without a trace in the blink of an eye.

Having done all that, Zi Ji's face instantly turned pale in midair. Almost at that very moment, she was struck by a mass of black flames and fell from the sky.

"I'm rather curious. Just who is worth the Hell Demon Dragon King risking her life to protect?" A figure clad entirely in black armor slowly descended from the sky. She was tall and slender. Aside from her Battle Armor, dark flames burned fiercely around her, yet it was still clear that she was a woman with an exceptional figure.

Though the woman had not fought Zi Ji for long, she understood that if Zi Ji had not insisted on saving Xia Yi, she could never have defeated her.

Even if Zi Ji was not her match, she could not stop Zi Ji if she was determined to leave.

Yet Zi Ji had actually given Xia Yi her chance to escape. That was something she had never expected.

It was also because she had tried to attack Xia Yi that Zi Ji had revealed herself to stop her. Otherwise, she would never have known from the beginning that Zi Ji had been secretly following Xia Yi.

The woman was exceedingly curious why a Beast would insist on protecting a child.

"Since you know who I am, you should understand that if anything happens to me today, you definitely won't survive either." Zi Ji looked coldly at the woman before her.

"Of course I know. With Beast God Di Tian's abilities, he could find me even from the faintest trace. Unfortunately, I won't leave behind even the slightest trace today." The woman burst into laughter and waved her hand. A fiery gale rose, blowing Xia Yi and Mu Xi, who had supposedly been teleported away, right before her.

"You did it on purpose. You deliberately made me exhaust my strength." Zi Ji's eyes widened in disbelief when she saw that Xia Yi had not been teleported away.

Zi Ji quickly understood. This woman knew she cared about Xia Yi, so she had deliberately lured her into the trap.

"Otherwise, did you really think I would watch you send them away?" The woman sneered.

"I advise you to release him. Otherwise, you will definitely regret it." A sharp glint flashed through Zi Ji's beautiful eyes.

"Regret? I have plenty of regrets. One more won't matter." The woman sneered and turned her icy gaze toward Xia Yi and Mu Xi. "I originally intended to use you to threaten Zhen Hua into upgrading my Battle Armor, but it's better to eliminate every possible trace. After all, Di Tian isn't someone to be trifled with."

Though the temptation of Four-Word Battle Armor was unimaginably great, after making a move against Zi Ji, the woman would never leave herself any risk of exposure.

If Di Tian learned that she had killed Zi Ji, then even with Four-Word Battle Armor, she would still have to accompany Zi Ji to the grave.

The woman raised her hand, and Xia Yi was already in her grasp. She gave Zi Ji no chance to save him and twisted his neck hard with her right hand.

With a crack, before the shocked eyes of both the woman and Zi Ji, the woman's thumb, wrapped in a Battle Armor Hand Armor, snapped cleanly.

"How is that possible?" The woman was horrified. With her strength, even one hand was enough to snap the neck of an ordinary Title Douluo. Yet not only had she failed to break Xia Yi's neck, she had even broken her own thumb because she had not withdrawn her strength in time.

"It must have been an accident!" The woman refused to believe she could not even snap a child's neck.

She switched Xia Yi to her left hand. This time, she condensed Soul Power.

Yet before she could exert any force, the instant she grabbed Xia Yi's neck again, dark cyan light suddenly burst from within his body. Before the woman could react, the cyan light enveloped her.

"No!" The woman screamed, for the cyan light was dragging her toward Xia Yi.

At first, it was only her left arm, the one gripping Xia Yi's neck, which was dragged directly into his neck.

No matter how hard she struggled, she could not break free.

At that moment, Xia Yi's body seemed to become an illusion, yet once the woman's arm was dragged into that illusion, she could not pull it back out.

"No!" The woman struggled desperately, but it was useless. The cyan light bursting from Xia Yi's body seemed to contain unfathomable power. Not only did it suppress her completely, it even absorbed the power from her repeated attacks on Xia Yi.

"What exactly is going on?" The woman turned toward Zi Ji, wanting to know what was happening.

Yet Zi Ji was equally shocked and had no idea what was happening either.

"I'll kill you!" The woman let out a furious howl. Her gaze beneath the Battle Armor mask turned vicious as a dark-red dagger suddenly appeared in the hand with the broken thumb.

Bound by the cyan light, she discovered that she could not even release her martial soul.

Even her Battle Armor was slowly being compressed back into her body.

It filled her with unprecedented terror.

"A Divine Artifact!" Zi Ji's eyes widened again, disbelief filling her beautiful eyes. If this woman had used that dagger against her earlier, she might already have become a Soul Ring and Spirit Bone.

The woman truly could not afford to care about anything else. This Divine Artifact could only be used once, and she was deeply unwilling to use it on Xia Yi.

But to escape the cyan light's restraints, she had no other choice but to use this Divine Artifact.

"Die!" Without hesitation, the woman raised the dagger and stabbed it toward Xia Yi's chest. Using this Divine Artifact against a mere Soul Scholar made her heart bleed.

This Divine Artifact had been prepared for her elder sister.

Yet now she was using it against a Soul Scholar.

Thinking that she would no longer be able to use this Divine Artifact against her elder sister, she transferred all her hatred for her elder sister onto Xia Yi.

The dagger aimed at Xia Yi's heart and stabbed down with force.

Something the woman never expected happened.

Like the woman's left arm, the dagger met no resistance and entered Xia Yi's body directly.

And Xia Yi was not hurt in the slightest.

Instead, because the woman had used too much force, her right arm was dragged directly into Xia Yi's chest as well.

Now both her hands were restrained, and she was firmly suppressed by the cyan light. She no longer had any power to resist. No matter how desperately she struggled, she was still dragged bit by bit into Xia Yi's body.

As the woman's body completely vanished into Xia Yi's body, a black Phoenix Tattoo slowly appeared on Xia Yi's right arm.

It extended from the back of his hand all the way to his shoulder.

"What exactly is going on?" Zi Ji stared blankly at Xia Yi. Only after a long while did she slowly regain her senses.

Only after the cyan light on Xia Yi's body completely faded did she dare approach him slowly, though she still did not dare reach out and touch him.

Suddenly, Zi Ji looked up at the sky. In the next instant, she vanished from where she stood.

"Evil Spirit Masters? You have some nerve." Zhen Hua's furious voice rang out from the sky.

From the traces left behind by the surrounding black flames, he sensed the aura of Evil Spirit Masters.

Xia Yi and Mu Xi had only just met him before being targeted. It was obvious that this was aimed at him.

Rage surged in Zhen Hua's heart. He knew that Evil Spirit Masters would stop at nothing.

If he did not respond, everyone around him would become targets of the Evil Spirit Masters.