"Prefatory note": As usual, to keep the fight scenes flowing smoothly, there will be consecutive updates tonight. This is the first chapter; the second is still being written and should be posted around midnight. I will be taking tomorrow off, with no updates. I suggest readers wait and read both chapters together. The main text follows.
Fierce flames stretched across the sky, bloodlight billowing as though it could ignite even empty space. Before such demonic fire, whether one was a Fifth Realm True Person or a Sixth Realm Immortal, one would feel the blood flowing through one's body on the verge of burning along with it.
What formidable fire.
Cheng Xinzhan was somewhat astonished too. He thought that Jiupanpo did indeed have some genuine ability to back up her confidence.
The Daoist's response, however, was utterly unhurried. He turned his left hand over and tossed out a red-skinned gourd, fixing it high in the air. Then he paid the poisonous fire no further attention and continued advancing with his sword to slay the demon.
Once the gourd hung in the air, its stopper opened on its own. Colored light burst from its mouth, and a suction force arose out of nowhere. Caught by that force, the oncoming sea of scarlet flames surged toward it, pouring into the gourd's mouth without a single drop escaping.
Jiupanpo's expression changed at the sight, but rather than withdrawing the flames, she drove her Dharma Treasure harder, releasing still more poisonous fire.
The old devil thought that her demonic fire was incomparably poisonous, capable of rotting all things. Just how fine a gourd could his be? How could it possibly contain all of it? Once the gourd exploded and the accumulated poisonous fire spilled out at once, it would surely burn him beyond recognition!
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