Ni Wenshan had become one of the Heavenly Phoenix Tribe's six commanders despite lacking the Fengyang Clan's bloodline. That fact alone was enough to show that neither his cultivation and strength nor his methods and resourcefulness were comparable to those of ordinary men.
Yet facing this Bone Dragon, he felt as though he had strength but nowhere to use it.
As one of the six commanders, he had never seen the Bone Dragon truly fight, but he knew precisely how powerful it was.
In a battle years ago, the Heavenly Phoenix Tribe had relied on this killing weapon to hold off seven enemy peak Profound Spirit cultivators and over a hundred Divine Connection cultivators.
After a fierce battle, it had wounded five of those peak Profound Spirit cultivators and slain dozens of Spirit Severing stage cultivators. Four of the wounded peak Profound Spirit cultivators had later suffered flare-ups of the Dao injuries sustained in that battle and perished one after another in subsequent Heavenly Tribulations.
That battle alone had been enough to spread the fearsome reputation of the Heavenly Phoenix Tribe's Bone Dragon throughout the Cang Yan Realm.
Faced with a killing weapon whose power rivaled a Mahayana cultivator's, Ni Wenshan did not know what to do. He certainly could not defeat it in battle, and words would not get through either.
Of course he knew who Lu Yishi was.
She was a ruthless member of the Heavenly Phoenix Tribe. Though a woman, she did not practice the cultivation methods customary among Fengyang Clan female cultivators, but an exceptionally sinister one. It was also highly suited to Fengyang Clan cultivators, yet so unorthodox that almost no women chose to practice it.
That was because the cultivation method did not preserve youthful looks, and its requirements for one's constitution were almost