Fierce Phoenix

The allied Punishment Fleet advancing south was larger than the Star Han Fleet.

Huo Yuanjia and Geng Liangchen were tied up with a portion of them.

There were also several ironclad ships attempting a surprise attack, their course leading them directly into Lan Yi's northward path.

This was going to be a huge mess!

These ironclad ships were commanded by the French flag people.

Just like in most team battles, when trampling the Qing Imperial Court, that weak punching bag, it was a sure win, and they could play recklessly without consequence. The allied powers naturally got along swimmingly, happily getting rich on Star Han land, and occasionally bombarding cities to showcase their martial prowess.

When things were going well, they were brothers.

When things turned south, they would blame each other, starting with their parents and using their family trees as a radius to curse each other's relatives. They had wild imaginations regarding the sexual relationships of their female relatives, fully exploring the issues of reproductive isolation between humans and beasts.

The French flag people also had a concession in Puhai.

The upper-class residents in the concession were ravaged by lowly rioters like the yellow-skinned monkeys, and a desperate plea was sent out from a newly-made widow journalist.

Whether it was to protect the property and lives of their overseas citizens, or simply to hoard the spoils for themselves, to bombard and extort, the French flag people chose to slip away.

They named it, a romantic gift from the iris flower.

The party members planning the operation had not anticipated that the French flag people among the allied powers would be so free-spirited. Several ironclad ships were lured out of the main battle and directly attacked. They had secretly bypassed the combat zone, valuing speed in warfare, and indeed, they were incredibly swift. Lan Yi had barely boarded his ship and entered the Yellow Sea when he ran into them.

Oh?!

A surprise!

This was almost the first thought of both sides' command centers upon discovering each other.

There was no need to say more about Lan Yi's side; with an Immortal Master present, let alone a few ironclad ships, even dozens of them, they believed the Immortal Master could use immortal arts to obliterate them all! This was no joke; Lan Yi's Immortal Master's glorious record of destroying ships alone on the Yangtze River was widely known!

And the French flag people, still unaware of what they were about to face, were overjoyed to see a single ironclad ship sailing north. This was a military achievement delivered right to their doorstep. Intercepting or capturing it would effectively cut off the retreat path for the subsequent Star Han warships.

Boom! Boom! Boom!!

Regardless of whether they could hit their targets, these French white-skinned people, who had moved out of the Eight Great Hutongs in Yanjing, fired their cannons with the mindset of bullying weaklings.

Based on their experience.

The Star Han army.

Upon hearing the cannons, thirty percent would scatter. After a volley of rifle fire, another thirty percent would scatter. Then, those who charged bravely with bayonets were few and far between.

Naval battles were similar.

The Star Han ironclad ships were already outdated. Once shelled, they would lose all sense of direction.

After several volleys from the ship's cannons, columns of water erupted. The French flag people, like a pack of wolves hunting a lamb, had already opened up their engines, splitting the blue waves and directly flanking them.

At this moment, on the ship.

The Martial Artists and soldiers could still remain calm.

But facing the towering water columns from the ship's cannons, and with the acrid, choking smell of gunpowder blowing onto their faces with the crashing spray, the accompanying observers who were directly facing the aura of death could not help but panic. Many of them were wealthy and influential, and had never been this close to battle and death.

"Mom, why are they scared?" asked Scathach with a sweet smile.

"It's natural for sheep to fear wolves," Philia gently wiped her daughter's face.

"Then they're so stupid, they don't need to be afraid." Scathach's face flushed, she said with shy adoration, "If they are wolves, then my dear is a dragon! Dragons are picky eaters, they like delicious food!"

The dragon had come out to forage.

At some point, the chaos on deck quietly subsided. Martial Artists stood in neat rows on the swaying ship, like pine trees, with one hand on their shoulders, clearing a path through the panicked crowd.

Lan Yi strolled down this path.

Tall and powerfully built, his white hair flew wildly, and his Colorless Eyes shone even in the sunlight!

The accompanying Liu Baiyuan did not notice the commotion behind him.

With his face splashed by gunpowder and spray, his eyes were bloodshot. He tightly gripped his precious bow, glaring at the Flower Flag warships in the distance. He wished he could draw his bow and shoot. Those damn foreigners! They were the ones who fired cannons in the north, and after one bombardment, a village's old, weak, women, and children were left with nothing!

He wished he could drink the white-skinned people's blood, eat their flesh, and sleep in their skins!

Just as Liu Baiyuan was about to erupt in anger, A hand as white as jade was placed on his shoulder.

Liu Baiyuan's rage instantly extinguished, and all the hairs on his body stood on end. Although he could not see, his mind, having reached the great completion of Qi Cultivation, reflected a gaping maw exuding a bloody, hot aura. That mouth leaned close to his ear and said in an incredibly calm voice, "Draw your bow after you've cultivated your spirit. For now..."

"Watch me."

"And watch the sky!"

ROAR!!!!

A high-pitched, sharp cry instantly drowned out the sound of cannonballs scraping against skulls. It was a fierce, enraged roar that only humans could hear, a bellowing like thunder! It was a scaled creature soaring into the sky that only humans could see, bathed in lightning!

Viewing giant whales as mere bait, capturing sea dragons as if they were snakes! Battling the Kunpeng at the edge of the vast sea, stirring the azure sky, wind and thunder churning!

Soaring into the sky was the Great Fierce Phoenix!

The Dragon Sparrow Swallowing Whale Diagram and Primordial Magnet Star Dou Technique clashed and intertwined, the mindscape they projected appearing as if mythology had descended, and legends had reappeared!

It wasn't just the Mindscape, but also Daoist Arts, and psionic energy that burned and outputted without restraint.

A Spirit Cultivation Practitioner, if their Mindscape was fire, would then utilize fuel oil and thunder powder, creating illusions and reality to obliterate enemies. Lan Yi naturally knew these methods as well. With the Feathered Thunder Robe, his Martial Reflection illuminated the void. At this moment, he mobilized this hundred-meter-tall Mindscape to directly pounce, as if hunting a whale!

'Twenty thousand meters, psionic energy coverage nodes divided twenty times, strong magnetic field for direct ejection.'

'Five seconds.'

'The physical damage should be within an acceptable range.'

Lan Yi's thoughts raced. The two Martial Arts cultivation techniques were becoming familiar and improving at an almost visible speed. Chapters on Qi Cultivation, Great Accomplishment of Qi Cultivation, Self-form, and Human-form were handled with ease.

It was important to know that Lan Yi's Martial Arts cultivation techniques before his rebirth were not these two. His innate talent had long been tempered to an extremely terrifying degree.

The next moment, the Thunder Feather Fierce Phoenix soaring through the sky had the [Cang Hua] ring above its head, flapping its wings with all its might in the eyes of the onlookers!

One flap of the wing, one instantaneous movement.

In a single breath, it shot out ten thousand meters!!

The command center of the American people erupted in an uproar. They had never dreamed that a mythical monster would suddenly appear, and in just a few breaths, it was pouncing towards their heads! Above the line of warships, even the sun's brilliance was briefly obscured by lightning!

"Fire! Fire!"

"Fire at the sky!"

"Stop it!!"

The American people shouted hoarsely, even issuing desperate commands, until the thunderous pool of energy descended with a roar!