"Fellow Daoist Ao Can, did we really have to go this far?" Bo Huang asked with some regret as he followed Ao Can.
Without even turning his head, Ao Can said, "Weren't you the one who just told those visitors from the Phoenix Race, 'Don't bully a young bird for being poor'?"
At first, no matter how Ao Can tried to persuade him, Bo Huang refused to let Ao Can drag him into the mire.
Playing around was fine. Gambling with his life was not!
Just as his persuasion was getting nowhere, some younger members of the Phoenix Race happened to arrive near the Sun and barged straight into Bo Huang's Daoist Abode.
After hurriedly asking Ao Can to stay out of sight, Bo Huang welcomed these Phoenix Race disciples inside with overflowing enthusiasm.
The feng leading them said to Bo Huang without the slightest courtesy, "Bo Huang! What we spoke of last time is a matter of great importance. The Phoenix Ancestor specifically sent us here to warn you once again!"
"I know, I know! Rest assured, fellow Daoist!" Bo Huang said with a fawning expression.
Several other huang beside the leader looked around Bo Huang's Daoist Abode with curiosity. As fellow practitioners of the fire element, they had long coveted Bo Huang's ability to live directly on the Sun.
The Phoenix Clan was likewise born with control over fire. Where in all Heaven and Earth could there be a place better suited to fire-element cultivators than the Sun?
Within the Phoenix Race, there had long been considerable grumbling over Bo Huang occupying the entire Sun despite having only Golden Immortal cultivation.
Yet Bo Huang had been born from the Sun, leaving the Phoenix Race without a righteous pretext to seize it!
Although the strongest of these younger Phoenix