Ancestral Dragon and First Qilin had no idea...
To Chongming Bird, Fire Phoenix King wasn't an enemy at all.
He was an ally!
He could even serve as a spy deep in enemy territory!
Just as Chongming Bird was rejoicing that Fire Phoenix King had been freed...
He was dismayed to discover...
Yuanfeng was actually using Fire Phoenix King as an Immortal Crystal at the Primordial Golden Immortal level.
To put it more vividly...
If the Phoenix Clan Protection Array were an electrical appliance...
Then Fire Phoenix King was its battery.
"Yuanfeng!"
Chongming Bird gritted his teeth inwardly, but couldn't say it aloud. His bird face was as gloomy as could be.
Right then...
Chongming Bird clearly heard Ancestral Dragon and First Qilin order their subordinates...
To strike the Phoenix Clan Protection Array even more fiercely.
Chongming Bird's heart lurched.
A terrible thought suddenly occurred to him...
When the Phoenix Clan Protection Array shattered...
Would Fire Phoenix King fall with it?
Under the puzzled gazes of Ancestral Dragon and First Qilin...
Chongming Bird delayed giving the order to intensify the attacks.
Even so...
The aura of the Phoenix Clan Protection Array grew weaker by the day.
Eventually, it would break.
In Hong Huang...
Time had never meant very much.
An ordinary being might spend tens of thousands, or even hundreds of thousands, of years in a single retreat.
But throughout these years...
The Phoenix Clan in the Southern Ming Undying Volcano had felt each day drag on like a year.
No one could bear the feeling of death drawing closer, step by step.
The fact that the Phoenix Clan could still hold on...
Showed that their Dao Hearts were exceptional!
If the Phoenix Clan could overcome this crisis...
Their strength would surely make a tremendous leap.
But that was for later.
One day...
After holding for several hundred years, the Phoenix Clan Protection Array finally groaned under the strain.
The next moment...
Boom!
A deafening rumble rang out.
The Phoenix Clan Protection Array shattered!
"Caw!"
Yuanfeng forced down the grief in her heart and shouted at once:
"Break through with me!"
However...
What filled Yuanfeng with despair was...
A thin curtain of light had appeared all around the Southern Ming Undying Volcano.
An encirclement array had already been set up through the combined efforts of Ancestral Dragon, First Qilin, and Chongming Bird.
Though the array wasn't particularly powerful...
For the Phoenix Clan in its current state...
It was a nightmare.
"Heh!"
Trapped in a desperate situation...
Yuanfeng's mind was clear of all distractions, leaving only a surging will to fight.
"If Heaven wants to destroy my Phoenix Clan..."
"Then we'll pierce the heavens!"
"Even if every one of us falls, we won't let these bastards get away with it."
"Follow me into battle!"
With that...
Yuanfeng shot into the sky first, attacking upward.
In midair...
Yuanfeng transformed completely into her immense true form.
The clan's treasured artifact, the Phoenix Staff, became a streak of light, circling around Yuanfeng.
"Caw!"
With a piercing cry...
Centered on Yuanfeng...
A Nirvana True Fire formed from the Five Elements Law Power burst forth.
"Bad! Run!"
The beings in the void saw this and were instantly terrified out of their wits, fleeing wildly in every direction.
However...
Compared with the speed at which the Nirvana True Fire erupted...
Their escape was far too slow.
Wherever the Nirvana True Fire passed...
The Primordial Beings abruptly froze.
Then...
They looked like stones weathered for countless years.
A breeze blew past.
They all crumbled to dust.
And scattered on the wind!
From high above...
A huge gap had opened in the encirclement over the Southern Ming Undying Volcano.
It was as if a piece of it had vanished into thin air.
Yuanfeng's attack...
Was terrifying!
However...
Before the Phoenix Clan below could even celebrate...
They saw Yuanfeng struck by a streak of yellow-black light and another of golden light.
"Sister!"
Qing Luan cried out in grief and was about to rush to her aid.
But Chongming Bird had been waiting for this moment and calmly blocked Qing Luan's path.
"Qing Luan, I'm your opponent!"
"Chongming, you're asking for death!"
Furious, Qing Luan immediately fought Chongming Bird, and the two of them battled all the way down into the earth.
For a time...
The Phoenix Clan's only two Primordial Golden Immortals were both occupied.
The rest were merely exhausted clansmen.
Just then...
Candle Dragon and Ink Qilin, who had yet to join the fight, suddenly appeared.
They were two Primordial Golden Immortals.
For the remaining Phoenix Clan members...
They were nothing short of a nightmare!
Candle Dragon and Ink Qilin charged into the Phoenix Clan like tigers among sheep.
A single casual strike from either of them could take out a whole group.
And that wasn't all.
Behind Candle Dragon and Ink Qilin were countless Flying Birds, Walking Beasts, and Scaled Creatures.
These beings were several times stronger than the Phoenix Clan.
With Candle Dragon and Ink Qilin in the mix...
The remaining Phoenix Clan members stood no chance.
They fell in waves, like wheat being harvested.
In an extremely short time, the Phoenix Clan suffered devastating casualties!
For a time...
The Southern Ming Undying Volcano seemed to have become a hell for the Phoenix Clan.
The entire clan was trapped in a desperate situation!
At that moment, the Phoenix Clan's crisis of life and death erupted in full.
Boundless Tribulation Qi descended from the void, pouring down onto the battlefield.
Now, back in the sky...
Having been caught off guard by Ancestral Dragon and First Qilin...
Yuanfeng had suffered serious injuries.
Golden phoenix blood spilled through the void.
Two massive wounds had appeared on Yuanfeng's enormous true form.
Her left wing had especially caved in badly.
This was the result of Yuanfeng desperately twisting around when danger struck, using her left wing to shield her abdomen.
Otherwise...
Ling Tian, within Yuanfeng's womb, might have fallen right then and there!
"Caw!"
Yuanfeng let out a piercing cry.
But compared to before...
Her cry was clearly much weaker.
A rain of blood suddenly fell across Hong Huang.
The phoenix bled, and Heaven and Earth mourned!
A sorrowful feeling inexplicably arose in the hearts of the Primordial Beings.
However...
Ancestral Dragon and First Qilin had no intention of stopping.
The Ancestral Dragon Pearl and the Qilin Seal, wrapped in Law Power at the Primordial Golden Immortal level...
Crashed down mercilessly toward the wounded Yuanfeng!
"Ptui!"
In response...
Yuanfeng showed not the slightest fear. She spat out a mouthful of blood, her fighting spirit surging.
What was there to fear in death?
Even if Yuanfeng died, she would never let Ancestral Dragon and First Qilin get away with it!
There was only one regret in Yuanfeng's heart...
Ling Tian!
At this moment...
Yuanfeng no longer cared whether Ling Tian had a powerful Foundation, exceptional talent for comprehending laws, or a top-tier cultivation technique to accompany him...
What she regretted was that she would die without ever seeing Ling Tian.
"My boy, your mother's sorry!"
Yuanfeng murmured.
Then she plunged back into the fight to the death.
Yuanfeng didn't know that...
Just moments ago,
Ling Tian, who had been in seclusion all this time, suddenly opened his eyes.
As he sensed everything outside, deep fear welled up on Ling Tian's face.
"Thank goodness I still made it in time!"
The next moment,
a thunderous shout rang out across heaven and earth.
"Rise, formation!"
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