Unfortunately, a lion was still a lion. No matter how fiercely it fought, it could never be a phoenix's match.
What was more, this was a lion far weaker than the phoenix.
Though the half-bodied lion attack roared forth by the Grand Yama Demon Lion was astonishing, it ultimately only forced the Nether Phoenix Dark Sparrow to soar backward several yards. It did not inflict even the slightest injury upon it.
On the contrary, as the Nether Phoenix Dark Sparrow flew backward to evade the Grand Yama Demon Lion's attack, it seized the brief moment of weakness after that strike. With a beat of its wings, two vast torrents of air swept out from beneath its Black Scale Feather Armor, like ocean waves burning with blue-black flames, surging toward the Grand Yama Demon Lion as if determined to devour it.
Wherever the blue-black waves of fire passed, grass and trees instantly turned to ash. Even the scorched earth could not bear that searing heat and cracked apart.
Fortunately, the battlefield of one man and two beasts had already been drawn far away, so the distant cluster of Zi Dai Flowers would not be affected.
Beneath the assault of those wild, surging fire waves, the fur on the Grand Yama Demon Lion's body, which had seemed to burn like flames, instantly drooped. It hung listlessly, like a cat drenched by rain, utterly bereft of its previous roaring vigor.
Having exhausted its strength, its front paws instinctively struck the ground, but it could no longer raise a massive Earth Wall as before to block the incoming fire waves. Its hind legs could not muster enough strength to kick off and flee either.
It was about to be swallowed by endless Nether Fire.
Suddenly, an even fiercer gale swept in from the side.