Patriarch Blazing Fire was caught completely off guard by the Cold Flame Divine Thunder. The flames protecting his body were shattered, and great masses of viscous Cold Flames and icy radiance flew everywhere. Had his formidable powers not allowed him to shift swiftly into the sky, he would nearly have been engulfed in them and had his flesh blasted apart!
Seizing the opportunity, Deng Bagu released a cold tide over a thousand feet long from the Snow Soul Pearl, sending it crashing straight toward Patriarch Blazing Fire to freeze him within it.
Patriarch Blazing Fire was forced to retreat toward the distant sky once more. At last, relying on the transformations of his profound arts, he dissolved the cold tide completely with the true fire he had cultivated. By the time he gritted his teeth and sought Deng Bagu out for a fight to the death, she and Fire Wuhai had already flown away through the air. On the way, Fire Wuhai even picked up Liu Quan from a distant mountaintop, and in an instant they vanished into the night sky.
The surrounding Mount Hua disciples, along with some Wutai disciples and both Xing Kun and Yuan Da, gathered around him.
"Master! Those two got away!"
Patriarch Blazing Fire glared at the speaker. As if I didn't know they got away! Do I need you to tell me?
The disciples were puzzled too. They looked anxiously at him, wondering whether they ought to give chase.
But Patriarch Blazing Fire neither pursued them nor ordered his disciples to do so.
His defeat in the second Yellow Mountain sword contest, followed by his defeat at Divine Nun You Tan's hands in Kaiyuan Temple, had made him less impulsive than before.
The Mount Hua Sect could never tolerate the Snow Soul Pearl's emergence.