The emerald fireball flared up. Qin Fengming sent out a thought from his Profound Soul spiritual body, and at once a mass of black-red flames suddenly shot forth from within the emerald flames.
Amid the flickering black-red firelight, a clear bird cry rang out.
As the bird cry resounded, a bird only about two feet long suddenly flew out of the black-red flames. It circled and danced around Qin Fengming, its cries unceasing.
Facing this exceedingly strange Mahayana-stage Essence Soul, whose methods were clearly extraordinary, Qin Fengming no longer dared to be careless. He directly activated the Spirit Devouring Netherflame and released the Suffocating Bird fire spirit.
The Spirit Devouring Netherflame contained several types of fire essence. However, whether it was the cyan Flood Dragon, the Sun Bird, the Fire Fox Strength Beast, the Fire Crow, or the Fire Phoenix fire spirit, in terms of power, it was truly difficult to say whether any of them could surpass the Profound Extreme Light in restraining Essence Souls.
Yet there was another fire spirit within the Spirit Devouring Netherflame that possessed an enormous restraining effect against Essence Soul entities. That was the Suffocating Bird fire spirit.
The Suffocating Bird fire spirit had an extremely powerful corrosive effect on cultivators' physical bodies, especially against Five Elements energy, where its efficacy was particularly formidable. Although it also had a certain effect on Essence Souls, it was nowhere near as powerful as the Profound Extreme Light.
However, there was another powerful existence within the Suffocating Bird's belly: the Zhenli Ice Flame.
Over all these years, the Suffocating Bird had ceaselessly refined the Zhenli Ice Flame within its body and had naturally purged a great deal of its impurities. Although it was still not pure Zhenli Ice Flame and its volume was not large, its power