"What kind of joke is this? The aura this flying bird gave off was, at most, that of a level-four demon beast. If it truly were the legendary Phoenix of Fire, how could it possess only this much cultivation and strength?"
"Most likely, the people of the Sacred Spirit Cult are merely making a mystery out of nothing here!"
"You can't put it that way. Perhaps... this Phoenix has yet to reach maturity. Though the Phoenix is a legendary divine bird, its strength is not something it is born with. Leaving aside everything else, this firebird's elegant, transcendent bearing alone—what bird in this world could compare to it?"
"Look closely! There's someone on that Phoenix's head!"
"What? There really is someone?" ????
"How is that possible? The Phoenix is a legendary ancient spirit bird, a divine bird that follows none but an Immortal. That person's cultivation is, at most, late Nascent Soul Stage. How could she make this level-four Phoenix willingly submit to her command? Could it be that the Sacred Spirit Cult truly acts under an Immortal's instructions?"
As they sized up the fiery-red figure soaring through the heavens shrouded in darkness, the crowd broke into a clamor of discussion and repeated cries of alarm.
Even Su Shi'er, concealed among the crowd as he looked up at the firebird wheeling through the sky, was deeply shaken.
With every beat of the firebird's wings, an extraordinary and astonishing aura descended from above.
As that aura fell, the Second Nascent Soul within his dantian trembled without pause.
One had to know that his Second Nascent Soul had been cultivated with the Southern Bright Leaving Fire as its core.
The Southern Bright Leaving Fire was the fire of the Li position in the Eight Trigrams, and also the companion spirit flame