Medusa's expression turned suddenly cold.
She finally understood.
The Three-Nation Allied Forces had surrounded Tagor, the Heaven Demon Phoenix had forced her to burn her blood, and this strange black flame had been hidden inside Huang Xuan.
None of it had been a coincidence.
Someone had been watching all along.
Watching to see whether Xiao Fan would come.
Watching to see whether he would step into this yellow-sand battlefield that had long since been prepared, for her, for the Snake-People Tribe, for the Jia Ma Empire.
This was no simple encirclement and slaughter.
It was an experiment.
Nihility Devouring Flame was in no hurry to take Xiao Fan's life.
It wanted to see whether Xiao Fan would lose control.
Black Fire Shadow raised its hand.
Countless tiny black flames suddenly lit up across the entire battlefield.
The remaining poison gas from the East Gate Poison Formation.
The shattered Dou Qi from the Luo Yan Feather Formation.
The beast souls that had not dispersed after the Mu Lan Empire's beast army died.
The blood Qi of the Three-Nation Allied Forces' fallen soldiers.
The royal blood left within the Snake-People Tribe's protective formation.
The lingering remnant souls of the Jia Ma border army that had yet to depart.
And the Heaven Demon Phoenix flesh and Dou Zun phoenix Qi remaining in Huang Xuan's true body.
Everything was lifted by an irresistible force and pushed toward Xiao Fan.
It was as if the entire battlefield had been split open, stuffing the most chaotic, filthiest, and most massive blood, souls, resentment, Dou Qi, and bloodlines within it all right in front of him.
Black Fire Shadow said softly, "Devour them."
"Devour them, and you will recover."
"Devour them, and you will break through."
"Devour them, and you will prove that the Tunling Clan has