"Bang..."
Feng Xian'er drifted away like the wind.
Her face was deathly pale, and she looked so weightless that a gust could have blown her over.
Her robes were already stained red, her aura unsteady. This time, she had truly been gravely wounded.
Her eyes stared in disbelief at the Nine-Phoenix Heart-Exterminating Mirror in her hand.
At that moment, the Heart-Exterminating Mirror was nothing more than an ordinary bronze mirror.
The blazing fire phoenix that had woven itself into being on its surface had burrowed back into the mirror and vanished.
And the original four black-clad figures had been joined by another.
Ning Jiuying.
He openly showed his true face, without the slightest attempt to conceal it.
On closer inspection, he was holding a spinning bronze cauldron with three legs and two handles.
The Biluō Purple Cauldron.
Only, this cauldron was not that cauldron.
It was the Biluō Purple Cauldron key he had obtained through his negotiated trade with Long Shuang'er, not the Biluō Purple Cauldron Lin Shisan used for alchemy.
Under his control, the Biluō Purple Cauldron seemed to open a gate of light, with streams of radiant clouds shining down from the void.
They suppressed the Nine-Phoenix Heart-Exterminating Mirror in Feng Xian'er's hand, turning it from a spirit artifact into a bronze looking glass that merely reflected people's images.
"Ninth, this is..."
The leader of the black-clad figures looked equally bewildered.
She had never expected Ning Jiuying to actually obtain a key from Long Shuang'er that could temporarily suppress the Heart-Exterminating Mirror's power.
"When Ninth makes his move, success is assured."
Ning Jiuying gave a cold laugh, pride covering his face.
Ever since the battle a thousand years ago, when he had been gravely wounded and nearly perished, Nine Nether Mountain had looked down on him.
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