"Ignorant junior. You're courting death with that arrogance!"
Lin Ming's provocative, unruly laughter and words were like the sharpest needles, stabbing viciously into Fenghuang's proud self-respect.
She had roamed the Dou Qi Continent for hundreds of years. When her fierce name had shaken the world, the ancestors of this kid before her might not even have been born yet!
Now she was actually being looked down on to her face by a junior, even with a hint of eager "challenge" in his tone. How could she endure that? It was simply a disgrace beyond measure!
Fenghuang laughed from sheer fury, and in her red-gold vertical pupils, killing intent nearly solidified into substance.
She wasted no more words. Her arms fully extended from within her wide red sleeves, and at this moment, they had already become a complete pair of scarlet-red phoenix claws.
The claw blades stretched a full half zhang, curved like hooks, their color a dark red like congealed blood. Faint light that could cut through space flowed along their edges, and with just the slightest flex, fine black cracks appeared in the surrounding space.
"Great Heaven Phoenix Claw!"
A cold, bone-chilling low shout rang out, and the pair of blazing wings behind Fenghuang suddenly beat hard!
"Boom!"
The void exploded. Her figure instantly blurred, her speed so fast it surpassed the limit of what the naked eye could capture, leaving only a ring of bursting flames where she had stood.
In the next instant, she appeared above Lin Ming's head as if by instantaneous movement, looking down from on high, her enormous blazing wings blocking out a small patch of sky.
Without the slightest hesitation, that pair of half-zhang-long scarlet-red claws, wrapped in the terrifying high temperature that could burn mountains and boil seas and the sharpness to