The thing that looked like a scaleless creature snapped at nothing, but the air it shook covered an area of at least over ten zhang.
Zhu Tingtao, who had only just steadied himself beside Ji Yuan, was instantly seized by lingering fear. He now saw that the "little snake" had merely been a feint; its true size was over ten zhang. If he had not gathered his magical power to block the "little snake's" jaws just now, he would likely have been swallowed.
"Fellow Daoist Zhu, do not be deceived by the madness this fiend displays. When it tricked you just now, it was calm indeed!"
Zhu Tingtao composed himself and replied in a low voice.
"Zhu did not underestimate it. I simply did not expect my Dharma Eyes to sense nothing at all. But it will not escape Zhu's Phoenix True Fire!"
Standing at Zhu Tingtao's current height, Ji Yuan looked down with him over the lands in every direction. Sky and earth alike were ablaze with roaring true fire, accompanied by the agonized howls of the fiend.
Ji Yuan frowned as he looked below. Zhu Tingtao's Phoenix True Fire was naturally formidable. After they had refined the Immortal Binding Rope together, Zhu Tingtao had once said that he had greatly benefited, his understanding of the path of true fire rising another level. Thus, his true fire now faintly carried an aura that could burn all things away.
"Fellow Daoist Zhu, though this fiend reeks of decay, it may be far more formidable than you imagine. Let this person Ji add another blaze."
As he spoke, Ji Yuan took a slight breath, then exhaled forward. In an instant, red-gray Samadhi True Fire poured forth and, in the next moment, merged directly into the sea of flames. The originally radiant