Fire Phoenix

Then her face stiffened, and the muscles of her cheeks rippled.

Madam Xueying felt her hair stand on end as she was watched, and amidst her panic, a beam of light shot from Chiba's palm and sent her flying straight toward the heavy gates.

Ouch!

When she was struck by the beam and Chiba's fingers detached from her heart, she felt a heart-rending agony.

Chiba leaped into the air, unleashing a massive attack formed from five or six claws, and Old Ancestor Fu threw up a protective shield.

Several elders scrambled about in all directions...

Instantly!

Looking like a complete ghost, Chiba rushed outside the gates, seemingly intent on giving Madam Xueying no chance of survival.

This was how Tang Ru and Shangguan Xiu came upon the scene they now saw.

The little one panicked, tiptoeing as she prepared to make a run for it...

"Immortal Crane, drop down fast, we're leaving."

"The bad daddy still isn't coming..."

The little one muttered in a very tiny voice, acting all clumsy out of sheer terror toward such violent women.

Just as she climbed onto the Immortal Crane's back, Chiba arrived in a flash. With her head tilted, wild hair flying, and sideways red eyes, she glared right at the little one.

The little one's heart skipped a beat. She immediately held her breath, crouching quietly on the crane's back while her heart pounded with a terror that made the skeletons of Ghost Island look tame.

Those clumsy skeletons were actually kind of cute!

"Master, don't!"

Shangguan Xiu shouted. Seeing that Chiba was about to strike, she covered her eyes, not daring to look.

"Palace Mistress, snap out of it, she is—"

Tang Ru's voice cut off mid-sentence.

Chiba raised her long fingernails toward the sky, and a stream of milky-white power