Inside Dark Moon Residence.
"Daddy! Are you leaving again?" Little Dodo looked at Chen Rui with reddened eyes, clinging tightly around his neck and refusing to let go.
Chen Rui kissed his daughter's soft little face again and again. "Sweetheart Dodo, Daddy has some important things to do. I'll come back and play with you afterward, all right?"
"Is Daddy going to beat up those bad people?"
"Uh... yes."
"Dodo wants to go too!" As if to demonstrate her fighting prowess, the little Phoenix tightened her hold around her father's neck, carrying more than a hint of Alice's neck-strangling flair.
Feeling the strength in his daughter's grip, Chen Rui wiped the sweat from his forehead. "Dodo is still too little. Daddy will take Dodo into battle with him when you're older."
"Daddy! Dodo is very strong!" Dodo raised her tiny fist, then shot into the air and transformed into a streak of red light. The light vaguely took the shape of a Phoenix, and the temperature throughout the courtyard immediately rose. Like lightning, the red streak flew toward one corner of the yard. A pig-headed object that looked as though it had been carved from metal was brushed by the red light and instantly exploded.
Chen Rui noticed that what burst apart was not shattered fragments, but molten liquid.
When Dodo had first hatched, she possessed the strength of a Demon Emperor. After being born in human form, her power had declined somewhat, but her rate of growth was astonishingly fast. Though she was not yet two years old, she had already regained Demon Emperor-level strength. Combined with her affinity for fire and the bloodline power of the Asmodeus Royal Family, her potential was in no way inferior to that of a Phoenix body.
It was just that... for a