From behind him came, from time to time, the earth-shaking blasts of Ling Xuanque and the tribulation lightning clashing against each other. Ye Tian stared intently at the Fortune Immortal Tree before him.
The fleeting flash of red within the Fortune Immortal Tree should have been the Immortal Phoenix.
Ye Tian gently touched the trunk of the Fortune Immortal Tree, and suddenly, a thought stirred in his heart.
He calmed his mind and attempted to extend his divine sense into the Fortune Immortal Tree.
The moment his divine sense entered the Fortune Immortal Tree, it was as though he had plunged headfirst into a warm green ocean. Everything around him felt pleasantly warm.
But in the next moment, the evil aura belonging to the Immortal Phoenix spread over him. Then, from the depths of the green ocean, the Immortal Phoenix charged out.
It maintained its enormous true form of a hundred-zhang phoenix. Like a flame sweeping over a green meadow, it rushed before Ye Tian.
Yet, unlike last time, it did not attack Ye Tian. Instead, it stopped before his divine sense. Its enormous flame-wings, brilliant as fireworks, fluttered lightly, while a pair of eyes filled with intelligent light stared fixedly at Ye Tian.
"It's you again!" It spoke in a human voice, sounding like a hazy child speaking, full of childish innocence.
Ye Tian knew how difficult the Immortal Phoenix was to deal with. Especially within this unfamiliar Fortune Immortal Tree, even though the Immortal Phoenix now seemed to be displaying friendliness and showed no intention of attacking, he remained ready at every moment to withdraw and flee should it launch an attack.
"You need not treat me as though I were a great enemy, human," the Immortal Phoenix said, seeming to see through Ye Tian's preparations.
"I was