What surprised the Nirvana Crimson Phoenix even more was that, here in the Northern Endless Sea, a Human Race cultivator truly dared to try to kill him.
But with his life hanging in the balance, he wasted no more time on useless thoughts. He turned toward the young man again and spoke with grave earnestness.
"Young friend, I am the blood brother of the patriarch of the Nirvana Crimson Phoenix Clan."
At such a desperate moment, he dispensed with pointless pleas for mercy and revealed his true identity.
He hoped the status that had once let him swagger across the Northern Endless Sea would save his life from the young man's hands.
Unfortunately, a last struggle before death rarely swayed an enemy bent on killing.
If the young man actually let him go now, the Nirvana Crimson Phoenix would have wondered whether something was wrong with his head.
Yet just as he made one final attempt despite having little hope, something changed.
A thin, pale-gold mist suddenly gathered across the dark, gloomy sky of the Pearl-Curtain Blessed Land.
As time passed, the golden mist grew thicker.
The moment it fully coalesced, the Golden Landscape Scroll—familiar to Cao Yuxiu, Dao Seed of the Mountain-Shaking Immortal Sect, Liu Yiyi and the other three Endless Sea Nine Sons Dao Seeds,
and even Luo Yi—unfurled and took shape at a speed visible to the naked eye.
The figure seated on the Meditation Cushion in the scroll's central hall surveyed the Pearl-Curtain Blessed Land. His expression did not seem especially anxious.
But his words had clearly lost the leisurely composure he had shown at the Mountain-Shaking Immortal Sect's Mountain Gate.
Instead, they carried a barely perceptible urgency and an authority that brooked no question.
"Young friend, stop. This Nirvana Crimson Phoenix is of great use