"Ninth Brother!"
Not far away, the Thirteenth Prince, dressed in a moon-white robe, glanced at the Ninth Prince. "Tell me, how many Phoenix Feathers has this fellow collected altogether?"
"At least thirteen!" the Ninth Prince said.
He had been counting. He alone had already seen thirteen.
"So many, but they're no use!" the Thirteenth Prince said. "I feel like this fellow goes deeper each time. Every time the tide power of that sea of fire pushes him out, he gets thrown farther back!"
"Have you noticed?"
The deeper he advanced, the greater the tidal thrust he faced, so the farther he was pushed back.
That was the basis for the Thirteenth Prince's judgment.
"Really?" the Ninth Prince said. "I wasn't paying attention to that!"
"Tell me!" The Thirteenth Prince's expression darkened, his eyes narrowing to slits. "Could this fellow be trying to enter the fire dragon and take the legendary Phoenix Egg?"
"Impossible!" The Ninth Prince shook his head. "No one has managed to enter the fire dragon in tens of thousands of years!"
"What makes him think he can?"
"He'll burn to death!"
"Nonsense!" the Thirteenth Prince said. "No one had obtained a supreme-grade Sago Palm Sacred Fruit in tens of thousands of years either!"
"And no one had walked into the ice pillar and taken the [Ten-Thousand-Year Ice Marrow]!"
"And what happened? Someone got both, didn't they?"
The Thirteenth Prince looked at the Ninth Prince.
The Ninth Prince thought for a moment. "Surely not..."
"Entering the fire dragon is far harder than obtaining the [Ten-Thousand-Year Ice Marrow]!"
"Besides, this fellow isn't Fellow Daoist Xu. What makes him think he can do it?"
The Ninth Prince still refused to believe it and shook his head emphatically.
"I'll go ask him and find out!" the Thirteenth Prince said.
With that,