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The dark clouds overhead had long since been blasted somewhere far away by the fierce battle. The entire sky was astonishingly clear-a testament to just how intense the fighting had been.
"...Right! Xian'er, didn't you know where that Blood Fiend Thunderlight came from? What exactly is it?" None of the three had returned to the Supreme Flying Boat. Instead, they talked as they flew toward the Second Army, helping keep watch. Zhang Hong had been telling Li Xiaoya how the ambush had unfolded. When she reached the part about the transformation and the black lightning, she suddenly remembered Liu Xian'er's startled cry earlier and hastily asked her.
"Huh?" Liu Xian'er looked distracted, as though she had been thinking about something. Zhang Hong's question brought her back to her senses, and she hurriedly said, "Blood Fiend Thunderlight? Oh, my Master told me about it before."
"Hmm? You also mentioned a Blood Fiend Demon, didn't you? Could that fellow belong to the devil race?" Zhang Hong and Li Xiaoya had stopped holding hands at some point. Hearing Liu Xian'er's reply, Zhang Hong hurriedly pressed her. When the masked cultivator in black had transformed into a green demonic beast and unleashed something resembling hell lightning, Liu Xian'er had mentioned that name. Now Zhang Hong remembered it again.
"No, that's not it." Liu Xian'er shook her head. She paused to think before continuing, "Back when Uncle-Master Mystic Gate advanced to the spirit communion stage, didn't he encounter hell lightning too? My Master mistook it for Blood Fiend Thunderlight. I was curious at the time, so I asked my Master. My uncle-master said that when she was still at the core condensation stage, a vicious, utterly ruthless archfiend called the Blood Fiend