Such a Fierce Bird Was Actually Subdued

This fierce battle had already raged for a long time, yet Fire Luan had never managed to harm Li Zhengyuan in the slightest. Likewise, Li Zhengyuan had been unable to capture this savage Fire Luan.

This Fire Luan truly deserved to be called an innate-born creature. It had been born imbued with the nature of fire, hot-tempered and quick to anger. The battle between the two had fallen into a stalemate, with victory impossible to determine for the moment.

Just then, Fire Luan suddenly swished its long tail. With a rustling whoosh, countless dazzling, multicolored feathers instantly danced through the air.

In an instant, the entire sky was blanketed in crimson and scarlet-orange, the radiance so brilliant that it was nearly impossible to keep one's eyes open.

Those feathers swiftly gathered into blazing Six-Ding True Fire, tightly enclosing Li Zhengyuan from every direction above and below, forming an airtight cage of flames.

Faced with such a formidable formation, Li Zhengyuan did not dare lower his guard in the slightest. With a casual motion, he transformed himself into a massive stone. At the same time, his hands rapidly formed seals, guiding the qi of Pure Bright Nine-Yellow True Earth. In the blink of an eye, the boulder Li Zhengyuan had become turned indestructible, steady as Mount Tai, impossible to shake no matter how the outside world battered it.

Fire Luan could not help being secretly startled. Though it had successfully trapped Li Zhengyuan with its powerful feather formation, it could not pull those feathers in the slightest.

It therefore revealed its original enormous and majestic form, opened its blood-basin maw, and viciously breathed a blast of scorching flame into the mass of Six-Ding True Fire, attempting to intensify the blaze and refine Li Zhengyuan completely into ash and dregs.

Immediately afterward, Fire Luan used its sharp steel-like beak to peck fiercely at Li Zhengyuan.

Yet no matter how Fire Luan attacked, Li Zhengyuan remained utterly unmoving, like a towering mountain rising into the heavens, displaying an otherworldly calm and an unyielding spirit.

As the saying went: "Let him be strong as he may; the clear breeze brushes the mountain ridge. Let him be tyrannical as he may; the bright moon shines upon the great river."

Seeing that Fire Luan had exhausted its tricks, Li Zhengyuan barked, "You beast, how dare you try to devour me? Today, I'll make sure the moon wanes and never becomes whole again!"

Li Zhengyuan's expression was calm as still water. He merely seemed to casually flick his sleeve, yet that simple motion brought about a heaven-shaking transformation!

In an instant, heaven and earth began to churn violently, as though the entire world had been turned upside down.

The endless Dao and its principles rolled and flowed like raging tidal waters, even thoroughly overturning the once-stable aura between heaven and earth.

With a thunderous boom, the aggressive Fire Luan was actually struck into a somersault, plunging straight down like a burning meteor.

Yet Li Zhengyuan did not stop there. His right hand made a fierce grasp through the air, and with that motion, a crack faintly split open in the void before swiftly condensing into a Dao sword that gleamed with icy light.

Li Zhengyuan's expression remained indifferent. With a light point of his finger, the Dao sword formed from fragments of the void shot forth like lightning, flying straight at Fire Luan.

This sword contained boundless killing intent, as though it could tear apart the void and destroy everything that stood in its way.

Faced with such a fierce assault, Fire Luan naturally did not dare be careless in the slightest.

Yet instead of taking a defensive stance, it hastily brought forth a red rope. Like a spirit serpent, the rope shot rapidly toward Li Zhengyuan, clearly intending to bind him tightly.

In the time it took to speak, it happened. Just as the Dao sword was about to strike, Fire Luan suddenly swept one wing sideways, instantly whipping up an incomparably violent gale of astral wind toward the sword. The gale howled as it surged forth, its force sufficient to grind all things in the world to nothing.

Seeing this, Li Zhengyuan secretly praised, What a deeply calculating Fire Luan! Clearly, it was already in danger, yet it still chose without hesitation to attack me first, then use its wing to block my Dao sword.

Such methods truly befit a divine bird born with an aura of slaughter. In the future, it will surely become a general of slaughter and conquest, a lord of war.

Without further thought, Li Zhengyuan raised the Earth Book, blocking the red rope and suppressing its force before casually drawing it into his sleeve.

Then the Dao sword shattered the astral gale and continued onward. Fire Luan received the sword strike in a sorry state. With a pfft, several drops of crimson blood splashed out. As they fell into the void, blossoms of fire bloomed there, burning ceaselessly without ever falling into the dust.