That day, another range of undulating mountains lay ahead. The rocks of these mountains all carried a crimson hue, and beneath the blazing sun, they looked from afar like a sea of burning flames. Even a searing heat had arisen in the air.
"Caw..." A clear eagle cry rang out from Xiao Hua and the others' right. Then they saw a male eagle some three hundred zhang in size fly out from the mountain foothills. Its entire body was crimson as well, and whenever its wings spread, wisps of scarlet flame like flowing tassels streamed from between its feathers, falling through the air with sizzling crackles. As the eagle cried, its sharp beak glinting with cold light opened slightly, spitting out an equally crimson pillar of fire toward a spot several hundred zhang ahead. Before the eagle, a white giant python several hundred zhang long coiled atop demon clouds. Its python body opened its mouth and sprayed forth an ice pillar of equal size, blocking the fire pillar! Yet this ice pillar was clearly somewhat thin, able only to protect the space within a hundred zhang nearby. Before the fire pillar even descended, the front of the ice pillar had already begun to melt!
Looking again at the white giant python's python body, apart from a layer of dark patterns, it was snow-white like congealed cream! But at this moment, that snowy whiteness was covered in countless bloody cracks. Some had already healed, while others still flowed with blood and filth. The blood streaked across the snow-white python body, creating a tragic beauty.
"Hiss, hiss..." Seeing that the ice pillar could not withstand the fire pillar, the white python let out a hissing cry. Then, dozens of starlight and moonlight pillars descended from the high sky nearby. The white python's