Screech!
With a phoenix cry that pierced the heavens, Liang Zhaohuang drove the Phoenix Dharma Aspect swiftly upward, narrowly evading the pillar of starlight blasting in from Liu Peninsula.
Fortunately, he had sensed the danger and maneuvered the Phoenix Dharma Aspect away in time. The pillar of starlight shot directly beneath it. In that instant, Liang Zhaohuang clearly felt that even the Phoenix Dharma Aspect had been caught in the aftermath, trembling violently and nearly unable to hold steady.
The blood dragon pursuing close behind the Phoenix Dharma Aspect, however, had no time to evade and was struck head-on by the pillar of starlight.
At once, one-third of the blood dragon—over two thousand zhang long and woven from countless blood-colored vines—was blasted apart.
The remaining "crippled dragon" of intertwined Blood Vines twisted and struggled, on the verge of collapsing altogether.
Seeing the blood dragon's miserable state after being struck by the starlight, Liang Zhaohuang was deeply alarmed.
But with the "blood dragon" severely wounded, Liang Zhaohuang did not waste the opportunity. He immediately turned the Phoenix Dharma Aspect around and dove down. With a beat of its wings, vast waves of five-colored flame no longer fell as fiery rain, but swept downward in a prairie-burning blaze, instantly swallowing the badly wounded "crippled dragon."
The Five Virtues Fire burned furiously. Although the heavily injured "crippled dragon" struggled violently and billowed out great clouds of black-red vapor to resist, erasing the Five Virtues Fire as it burned—
This time, however, Liang Zhaohuang did not make the Phoenix Dharma Aspect retreat. Instead, he continuously raised greater and greater torrents of five-colored flames, burning and grinding away at the wounded "crippled dragon" without cease.
In the end, after nearly half an hour of struggle and attrition, the Phoenix's Five Virtues Fire finally completely suppressed