Mirai's Utter Destruction

Looking at the small vial in Kanzaki Rin's hand, Fang Cheng could sense a single drop of liquid inside.

Merely probing it with his perception was enough to trigger a feedback of intense, scorching heat.

It felt like molten lava or liquid iron, clearly containing some kind of violent energy.

He tried guessing, "Phoenix blood?"

Kanzaki Rin's ability was Phoenix Fire, which originated from the flames left in the world after a phoenix's Nirvana. If Li Yu wanted to find a suitable monster blood for her, phoenix blood would be the optimal choice.

Although the phoenix was considered an auspicious beast, it was essentially no different from a monster.

Fang Cheng's guess, however, made Kanzaki Rin shake her head. "Wrong. Guess again."

Not a phoenix?

He hesitated. "Could it be a Blue Phoenix?"

Kanzaki Rin shook her head once more.

"Bi Fang?"

"Incorrect!"

"Golden Crow?"

"Not that either!"

Kanzaki Rin looked at him speechlessly. "How did you manage to skip right over the correct answer?"

Fang Cheng's gaze fell back onto the small vial in her hand. "Because I can't believe it. Did Li Yu really give you that?"

The creatures he had guessed were all either auspicious beasts or divine birds, and in terms of strength, none were inferior to Tamamo-no-Mae.

But there was another entity equally adept at using fire, whose strength far surpassed that of Tamamo-no-Mae.

That was the Vermilion Bird!

Many people confused the Vermilion Bird with the phoenix, but the two were not the same thing at all.

The phoenix was the king of birds, an auspicious beast representing harmony and good fortune.

The Vermilion Bird, however, was one of the Four Celestial Spirits of mythology, originating from ancient star worship and representing the deity of the south, associated with the Flame Emperor and the