Blood Calamity's words... sounded perfectly reasonable, leaving Lu Ye somewhat speechless.
"What connection do you have with the Phoenix Race?" Blood Calamity grew curious again. If there were no connection, how could the Phoenix Lord have shown mercy just now? Had that finger come down, Lu Ye's physical body would have been utterly shattered, and even this wisp of his Split Soul would not have escaped death.
Yet he received no response from Lu Ye. Blood Calamity could not be bothered to ask further. "Fine, we can discuss that later. What I'm curious about is exactly how you intend to deal with me."
Now that his Split Soul had merged with Lu Ye, so long as he survived today's ordeal, he could find an opportunity later to pry into Lu Ye's secrets and naturally resolve the doubts in his heart.
What displeased Blood Calamity was Lu Ye's tone just now. Even if he was only a wisp of Split Soul at present, he was still the Split Soul of one of the Top Ten City Lords. He was not someone a mere Fusion Dao cultivator could casually deal with.
Yet Lu Ye had sounded utterly certain.
"Burn." Lu Ye calmly uttered a single word.
"Burn?" Blood Calamity was suspicious, but in the next moment, he frowned. A layer of firelight had suddenly risen across the vast Soul Sea, and then the entire Soul Sea seemed to ignite, blazing fiercely.
"Flames of the soul?" Blood Calamity was startled, but he quickly realized that these were not ordinary flames of the soul. When the fire swept toward him, his Split Soul felt an incomparably intense sense of danger.
His expression changed drastically. He darted and dodged through the Soul Sea, but the raging flames soon spread across the entire Soul Sea. Where