Gu Xun'er raised her delicate hand, and golden flame gathered in her palm into a slowly spinning lotus.
"Who exactly gave you the nerve to oppose me time and again?"
Fan Tian stood with his hands behind his back, a hint of a smile on his lips. "The young lady of the Gu Clan certainly knows how to throw her weight around."
Before his words had faded, Gu Xun'er abruptly vanished.
Fan Tian's pupils contracted slightly. Almost at that same instant, he shot backward a hundred zhang.
A streak of golden fire pierced through the spot where he had just stood, scorching even space until it twisted out of shape.
So fast.
Fan Tian was secretly alarmed.
I haven't seen this damned girl in a few months, and she's grown stronger again. She's even showing faint signs of breaking through to Dou Zun.
A Dou Di bloodline encountered no bottlenecks before reaching Dou Sheng, and Gu Xun'er's was divine-grade, making it all the more extraordinary.
But he did not panic.
In today's battle, he would hold nothing back. He would capture Gu Xun'er and teach her exactly why flowers bloomed so red.
"Come on, my little darling!"
Fan Tian roared, Dou Qi surging throughout his body as he hurtled toward Gu Xun'er.
Gu Xun'er's expression remained unchanged. She had experienced Fan Tian's tricks before. His body was merely a little tougher.
She rapidly formed seals with both hands, and the clan mark on her forehead lit up. Then her aura began soaring, climbing all the way to Five-Star Dou Zun.
Next, golden flame became a sky full of fiery rain, crashing down on Fan Tian from every direction.
Every drop carried terrifying scorching power. When they landed in the Misty Cloud Sect Square, the bluestone instantly melted into lava.
Fan