Once the sharp edge had been blunted, the momentum behind it naturally faltered.
With Xiao Yan's Fire Lotus no longer controlling the battlefield, the Heavenly Demon Phoenix was reclaiming the upper hand through his superior strength. Feng Ye believed that if this continued, the Continental Allied Army would collapse sooner or later.
Yet even as Xiao Yan felt the predicament he was in, he showed no sign of panic. A faint smile even appeared at the corner of his mouth.
"In that case, let's give it a try!"
Since none of his methods had proved particularly effective, Xiao Yan stopped resisting. He no longer even intended to break out, choosing instead to release a wisp of nihility devouring flame around his body. After that seemingly frail wisp transformed into a vortex, it made no attempt to absorb any surrounding energy. Instead, Xiao Yan plunged headfirst into it himself. In an instant, the tornado that had formed around him, targeting him at its center, lost its target.
Feng Ye immediately grew wary at this change. By the time he clearly sensed what had happened inside the tornado, Xiao Yan had already vanished. But after spreading out his spiritual perception, a smug smile appeared on his lips.
"I thought you had some clever trick. Even if you use Heavenly Flames to hide your presence for a while, you can't conceal your fox's tail!"
Feng Ye could clearly sense the last faint trace of Xiao Yan's presence. He had merely hidden inside the vortex formed by the nihility devouring flame, not vanished completely. Any technique was bound to leave traces that could be followed. And the ice-crystal tornado was now territory under Feng Ye's control, so he soon detected something out of place.
When he caught that tiny trace of nihility devouring flame