The Five Virtues Fire scattered by the Phoenix Dharma Aspect was no ordinary flame, not something common seawater could extinguish. Moreover, the blood-colored vines were steeped in wicked demonic aura, precisely what the Five Virtues Fire restrained and burned best. The flames immediately spread at speed, blazing fiercely.
The blood-colored vines sprawling across the sea twisted and writhed frantically amid the fiercely burning five-colored flames. Seeing that seawater was useless, vast amounts of blood-black aura erupted from all parts of the vines, transforming into layer upon layer of blood-black clouds that piled toward the burning five-colored fire.
This blood-black aura was power bred within the blood-colored vines, saturated with wicked and demonic energy—the very fuel the Five Virtues Fire restrained and burned.
But restraint was relative. Just as water could extinguish fire, if the fire was too great and the water too little, the fire could likewise boil the water dry.
The blood-colored vines covered the seas outside Liu Peninsula, spreading across thousands of li of ocean. Their numbers were too great and their coverage too vast; thus, the blood-black aura erupting now naturally amassed like mountains and clouds, far surpassing the Five Virtues Fire currently burning.
As it piled in, it immediately suppressed and even snuffed out the fiercely blazing five-colored flames.
At the same time, massive numbers of twisting, rolling blood-colored vines in the sea rapidly wound and tangled together, becoming more than a dozen enormous blood-colored pythons that shot up from the sea and lunged toward the Phoenix Dharma Aspect in the sky.
It was also at this moment that the great formation of Winged Demons circling overhead swooped down amid piercing cries and long shrieks, sweeping wind, fire, and demonic aura with them as they attacked the Phoenix Dharma Aspect soaring through the heavens.
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