"We've been discovered!"
His spiritual perception blared a fierce warning, making Liu Yu keenly aware that their group had been discovered.
This was hardly surprising. The Azure Soul Gauze was only an ordinary treasure, after all, while a fire phoenix possessed a top-class spirit demon bloodline. She might well have special innate spells or divine abilities.
Even without special innate gifts, a more careful sweep of divine sense would readily detect the Azure Soul Gauze.
However, true members of the Fire Phoenix Clan rarely left the Sparkfire Mountain Range. Their subordinate races generally handled affairs for them, much as they commanded the Fire Sparrow Clan.
At least during these three months, Liu Yu had rarely seen fire phoenixes venture out. Only then had he reluctantly brought the other three out to look around, hoping to persuade them to accept his proposal along the way.
His innately powerful, keen spiritual perception had never let him down.
Sure enough, before the other three could react, a phoenix cry rang out from the distant night sky, sounding as though it were right beside their ears!
"Kree!"
That cry made all three of their expressions change dramatically.
The next moment, they saw the fire phoenix part her beak slightly and spit out deep-red fireballs, each trailing a long tail of flame as it shot precisely toward where the four stood.
The fireballs were small, only the size of a human head, but the scorching aura they radiated was more than a dozen times fiercer than golden core true fire.
Each deep-red fireball held power somewhere between a third-tier upper-grade and middle-grade spell, and there were dozens of them.
"Dodge!"
The instant Liu Yu sensed something wrong, he warned his companions through divine sense.
In a lightning flash, he used the Flash Spirit Art, consuming