Chapter 1294: Qin Wuji's Bean Soldiers
Shi Yue looked at the ghostly figures all around him and gave a cold laugh. He flicked his sleeve, and a two-foot-tall boy in red appeared before him.
The boy in red was Shi Yan, an Exotic Fire. After Shi Yue helped him refine the Green Lotus True Flame, he had successfully advanced to the fifth rank and could assume human form for long periods.
Besides that, Shi Yan could speak. This alone made him far more formidable than other Exotic Fires. The main reason was that he had cultivated in the Earth Fire Pool in Palm Heaven Space for nearly ten thousand years, which had finally enabled him to speak. Other Exotic Fires could not yet do the same.
The Black Mist all around them roiled, and countless ghostly figures flew out, pouncing from every direction with terrifying force.
"Shi Yan, I'll leave this to you."
"Yes, Master." Shi Yan's voice was a little childish; he had not been a fifth-rank spirit flame for long.
Shi Yan opened his mouth and spewed out a great swath of crimson flames, sending them in every direction.
"Rumble!"
Wherever the flames passed, waves of heat surged and the very air warped. The vicious ghosts that touched the flames let out a scream and vanished into ash.
The vicious ghosts seemed endless, continually charging out of the Black Mist and pouncing on Shi Yan.
The Crimson Sea of Fire covered an area a hundred yards in every direction, with Shi Yue at its center.
Suddenly, the air behind Shi Yue twisted, and several enormous Black Ghost Claws reached out, striking toward him like lightning.
The instant the Black Ghost Claws appeared, Shi Yue's figure blurred and split into several afterimages. Countless Red Sword Qi burst from him,