Chapter 469
Although he had Wang Dong'er with him, any place with shadows was Ye Chen's safest cover. While the phoenix had no attention to spare, the two quickly closed in, the distance between them shrinking rapidly. Soon, they could see their target with the naked eye alone.
At this moment, Ye Chen was only a thousand meters away from it in a straight line. He had reached the optimal position and could not get any closer.
Black, black, black, red—four Soul Rings beyond everyone's comprehension silently rose beneath Ye Chen's feet. The Blood Red Soul Ring representing a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast shone brilliantly, and an ancient, primordial, terrifying aura instantly spread outward from Ye Chen. What followed was endless light.
The other Soul Beasts, which had already kept far away because of this divine phoenix, were frightened once more and fled even farther. The phoenix, in the crucial stage of nirvana, suddenly awoke. Scarlet flames lit up within the two hollows where its eyes should have been on its skull, seeming to reveal a humanlike gaze.
That aura gave it a faint sense of familiarity, while an intense fear instinctively rose in its heart. The terror seemed to come from the deepest depths of its soul, as if the ancestor of all phoenixes had descended. Even this former sky sovereign that had once dominated the ancient continent found it difficult to muster any desire to resist.
It wanted to find the owner of that aura. It wanted to see what kind of terrifying existence could possess such majesty.
A sliver of hope even arose in its heart. It hoped this was an ancestor of the phoenix clan who, upon learning of its plight, had come to free it from its suffering.
In short, it considered countless possibilities, but never