After the scorching fire wind gradually dissipated, Pei Ji restrained his sword energy and put some distance between himself and Ning Ning again.

The remaining heat was dispersed in the air, like the residual tide lingering on the beach, quietly seeping into the invisible gaps between each grain of sand, suffocating all the senses in the body.

Ningning lowered her voice and said, "Be careful, there is movement in the cave."

Just as she said, in the eerie silence, a very faint rustling sound came from deep in the cave.

The cave where the Fire Phoenix lives is deep and quiet, surrounded by jagged rocks piled up in disorder. The sound came along the corridor. At first, it was just like a low cry, and it passed through the eardrums together with the wind surging on the top of the mountain. Later, it became sharper and louder, almost shaking the stones on the edge of the cave.

The clear light from the sky dotted the entrance of the cave. With the help of this light, a thick black shadow slowly appeared on the rock wall of the cave.

"It's the Fire Phoenix!"

Qiao Yan said in surprise: "It must have sensed the presence of a living person... Everyone, be careful!"

Ningning stared at the cave entrance and subconsciously grasped the hilt of the Star Mark Sword.

They had encountered the black bird in Xiaochong Mountain before and had some contact with it. Overall, the process was barely safe - except that after the incident, He Zhizhou was severely beaten by Tianxianzi and became seriously disabled.

However, the Fire Phoenix here is completely different from the Xuanniao clan. It is an evil beast without any intelligence and only knows how to rob and kill. Otherwise, it would not have brought such a disaster to Xishan. During the war, it took advantage of the death of Qiao Yan's father to steal the jade pendant passed down from generation to generation in the fox clan for its own cultivation.

With a sharp scream like a blade piercing through the heat wave, the shadow finally emerged from the cave.

The Fire Phoenix is ​​scarlet all over, with a graceful figure, and is more than ten feet tall. Its huge wings suddenly spread out after leaving the cave, allowing its plump feathers to outline flowing lines. Under each wing lies unstoppable power.

The first thing that attracted Ningning's full attention was its pair of sinister and turbid eyes.

Its pupils were also a dark red, more like they were soaked in layers of blood than flames, filled with repressed and crazy emotions, making people feel a chill down their spine at just one glance.

This is the look of a wild beast when it is plundering food, without any rationality, only the purest animal nature.

The Fire Phoenix's temper was no less than that of the Black Bird. Before it had even scanned all the people present, it let out a roar from the depths of its throat as soon as it saw them face to face.

The raging flames gathered into a fireball, and with the help of the howling wind from the top of the mountain, it rushed straight towards everyone like a sword out of its sheath!

The flame of the Fire Phoenix is ​​not an ordinary thing. Not only is it fierce, it also carries a large amount of spiritual pressure.

This was the first time Ning Ning had a head-on confrontation with it. If she got excited and drew her sword to block it without thinking, she would most likely end up having a luxurious barbecue dinner on the spot. After considering for a moment, he decided to leap back lightly to see how strong it is.

The strong wind brought with it waves of fire, sweeping over like an overwhelming force, as if to burn down the West Mountain.

The rubble on the top of the mountain was hit by the wind and waves, and was blown up into the air by the strong wind, and fell towards everyone like thousands of arrows.

He Zhizhou had been stupid for so long, but he finally acted like a human for once. He immediately mobilized all his spiritual power, protected his body with sword energy, set up a shield around himself and Liu Ying, and took her to hide behind a huge rock.

"Thank you...thank you, brother He."

Liu Ying spoke with difficulty, her already fair cheeks now lost all color, looking no different from a piece of thin paper.

When He Zhizhou saw her lips trembling and cold sweat, he immediately realized that something was wrong. He followed Miss Liu's lowered gaze and saw her bloody shoulder.

——The gust of wind came unexpectedly, and before he could unleash his sword energy, a sharp conical stone piece pierced directly into Liu Ying's right shoulder.

The charming young girl's face turned pale. She looked at He Zhizhou's panic-stricken appearance and snorted in her heart.

She read the two storybooks "West Palace" and "Cao Bai Gu" over and over again, and she had long understood a truth: men are like this, they don't know how to cherish when everything is good, and now when she is hurt, they will feel a little bit of pity from the bottom of their hearts and regret it.

——Even though he has achieved success and is living a comfortable life, he has lost his precious love. How tragic and cruel!

At this moment, she is the seriously injured heroine. Looking at He Zhizhou's pitying and longing eyes, he must have changed his mind and will take care of and love her in every way from now on.

He Zhizhou had no idea what she was thinking.

He just felt that Miss Liu was wearing white clothes, and the blood was like free ketchup, which was splashed onto the white paper.

This reminded him of the French fries and burgers he had far away from home, and he felt a little nostalgic and a little hungry.

"Miss Liu!"

Seeing the blood flowing out of Liu Ying's shoulder, He Zhizhou felt a dull pain in his shoulder as well. He panicked and yanked the stone out of her arm, and heard the girl beside him groan in pain.

"Don't--"

Liu Ying tried hard to squeeze out this word from between her teeth. The moment the words came out, the stone spike had already left her body.

She cursed this idiot over and over in her heart, but due to the character setting, she could only say with a weak voice: "Brother He, if you don't take it out, maybe you can stop the bleeding."

He Zhizhou felt as if he was holding a weapon in his hand. Hearing her say this, he felt extremely guilty and quickly apologized: "I'm sorry, I'm sorry! I was just anxious for the moment!"

Liu Ying originally intended to reply to him with a tender and pitiful "OK".

However, before he could say anything, his words got stuck in his throat. His voice shrank back, and his two eyeballs suddenly jumped out, almost popping out of their sockets.

Grass! ! !

Seeing that she was unhappy, the idiot actually pushed the stone pillar back, right back! ! !

She was in so much pain that her eyes were bloodshot, and she really wanted to say, "You idiot with an underdeveloped cerebellum, how could you do this?"

But she couldn't do that. She was just an innocent, weak and ignorant little white flower. Even though he stabbed her again and again, she could only bite her lips with tears in her eyes: "Brother He, what are you doing?"

He Zhizhou was a little embarrassed.

He wasn't stupid enough to let me kill my teammates, but he was frightened by the Fire Phoenix before, and heard Liu Ying crying and talking in his ears. In panic, he subconsciously put the stone spike back in.

But of course he couldn't tell her the truth, as that would make him look like a fool.

He was silent for a long while. Although he lacked confidence, he still tried to show his righteousness: "Don't be afraid, Miss Liu. The situation is critical now. We can only take this last resort to stop the bleeding. When we are out of danger, I will carefully heal your wounds."

A tear rolled down Liu Ying's eye.

——Then please stab me in the same place.

Before, she only had one bloody wound on her body, and now she was stabbed again by He Zhizhou. It was buy one get one free, so it became two.

If she died today, the culprit would definitely not be Huo Huang, but this good teammate who was as stupid as a pig.

Liu Ying tried her best to hold back the blood in her throat and asked him with tearful eyes: "Brother He, has anyone told you?"

He Zhizhou replied blankly: "Uh...I love you very much?"

“No.”

She was so angry that she laughed: "Your brain is really different from that of ordinary people."

He Zhizhou understood this time.

This person is scolding him.

"Is Fellow Daoist Liu injured?"

Ningning cut off a cluster of fire with sword energy and glanced at the two of them quickly: "How is the situation? Is there any serious problem?" This is true concern!

Everything was done with the help of her peers. In contrast to He Zhizhou and Xu Ye, Ning Ning's figure wielding a sword to fend off the enemy was so beautiful and reliable that Liu Ying's nose was sore: "Don't worry about me, I'm fine!"

Ningning then gave her a faint smile in response.

The sword light and the fire light shone on the girl's fair and delicate face. Her dark almond-shaped eyes seemed to be filled with stars. With just a slight bend, thousands of sword intentions and tenderness flowed between them, making people willing to indulge in them.

Liu Ying wondered blankly, why didn't she choose Ningning to get close to in the first place?

"I don't have many water charms left!"

Although they are sword cultivators, they also have some knowledge of talismans. Xu Yidi used water dragons to disperse the fire countless times, but the talismans were limited, while the flames raised by the Fire Phoenix were endless. As time went by, all his family property was almost emptied.

The temperature in the West Mountain is already scorching hot, and it burns so recklessly that even the air and soil can be cooked. Xu Ye was fighting so hard that he was exhausted, and Pei Ji beside him also had a frown on his face.

Not only is the Fire Phoenix's attack ferocious, but its protective wings are also troublesome.

Unlike ordinary birds, these hundred-year-old beasts have already become strong and solid. The fiery red feathers on their bodies appear soft, but in fact they have formed a very solid armor that completely covers them.

Pei Ji never did anything fancy in a fight, he just drew his sword and started fighting. However, after he had finally managed to cut through the layers of flames, the little remaining sword energy was able to barely touch the Fire Phoenix's body, but the thin sword energy was unable to hurt it at all.

Ningning was dodging quickly most of the time, occasionally using the Star Mark Sword to cut off the oncoming hot and fishy wind, and staring at the direction of the Fire Phoenix from beginning to end.

She is observing.

This big bird was capable of both offense and defense. If it only had that layer of solid feathers, perhaps they could have used brute force to split it in half; but now the raging flames were surrounding it, forming a most impenetrable shield. It was difficult for them to even get close to it, let alone draw their swords to fight.

——What if we don’t get close?

Ningning's eyes darkened slightly, and with a flick of her body, she nimbly leaped onto the huge rock beside the Fire Phoenix. Just then the fire was cut off by Pei Ji. Standing at this geographical position, one can clearly see it spitting out flames.

wrong.

It's not about "spitting out flames", but about drawing the spiritual energy of heaven and earth in the body to the front of the mouth, turning it into a scorching white light, and then exhaling forcefully to blow it around.

It's a pity that she was so worried about the Fire Phoenix before. If it were like this... wouldn't it be much easier?

Without the water talisman, Xu Ye could only frantically cut off the gusts of fire and wind. Unexpectedly, when he looked up, he saw Ning Ning leaping forward and jumping straight into the flames spewed out by the Fire Phoenix.

He was so frightened that he lost his soul. He was afraid that the girl would faint from the heat, so he shouted at the top of his voice: "Ningning, what are you doing?"

But Ningning glanced at him quickly, her scattered black hair like mist and gauze, covering half of her eyebrows and eyes, revealing her light-colored thin lips with a smile.

She actually laughed out loud, her voice as clear as the swaying and colliding of wind chimes, which was totally out of tune with the surrounding scene: "You can't use water to deal with fire."

Xu Ye was stunned for a moment.

If you don't use water to put out a fire, what should you use?

Ningning didn't say anything else because she was getting closer to the raging fire and even breathing was becoming difficult. She had used telepathy to tell Pei Ji to evacuate first, so that she would be the only one confronting the Fire Phoenix.

All the fire will be directed at one person.

It was almost the same as imagined. Since the other opponents retreated one after another, Huo Huang had to focus all his attention on the little girl not far away.

What's more, she was standing facing the fire, and it only needed a little effort to burn her to ashes without leaving even a bone.

There was murderous intent in its blood-red pupils, and the giant bird, whose entire body was fiery red, let out a long cry. Most of the flames surrounding it rose up and rushed straight towards the motionless shadow.

Ningning tightly grasped the Star Mark Sword in her hand and counted down silently in her heart.

If the Fire Phoenix spewed flames directly from its mouth, it would mean that it was not afraid of fire and had a strong fire resistance attribute; but if it was just quietly rolling fireballs in the air like it was doing now, then there was a high chance that it was also afraid of being burned by fire.

Since the fire phoenix's flames are vicious and violent, they are definitely not ordinary things; and its wings are invulnerable to swords and guns and are extremely strong.

What would happen if this most vicious flame hit the most difficult to break feather?

Ningning held her breath, took out a few talismans from the storage bag, recited the incantations secretly, and then drew her sword with the help of several talismans. Wherever the sword light reached, there were star marks.

You can't use water to fight fire.

Use the wind.

In ancient times, Zhuge Kongming borrowed the east wind at Red Cliff. Now she didn't have the right time and place, so she used a bunch of wind talismans, a rampaging fire wind, and a sword.

Create the wind with your own hands.

“She is…!”

Liu Ying endured the pain, opened her eyes wide in the scorching firelight, and stared at the pale figure not far away, her fingertips trembling involuntarily.

The wind was blowing violently in all directions.

The girl's long skirt rustled in the wind, and the long sword hummed like a dragon's long roar, and after a clear sound, it suddenly fell down -

Suddenly, the sword wind was surging and continuous.

The snow-white sword shadow was filled with the color of the stars, transforming into a dazzling light as powerful as a torrent and waterfall, dimming even the scorching sun above the dome.

Ningning, standing in the center of the galaxy, had beautiful features and a face that was always full of smiles, but for the first time, she showed cold determination and sword aura.

The strong wind brought by the talisman made a sharp sound, the fierce wind caused by the Fire Phoenix swirled like a stream, and even more powerful was the sword wind from her long sword.

The rocks shook wildly, the dragons roared, and the roaring flames, with the help of the west wind, roared like a giant dragon swinging its tail...

Rushing straight towards the Fire Phoenix's vital point!

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"Hey, hey, hey, no, no, no! Oh my, another disciple of mine has been sent away."

Outside the mysterious mirror, a petite young woman sighed for a long time with a look of annoyance on her face, causing Qu Feiqing beside her to smile softly with her hands covering her lips.

"The disciples of the Beast Taming Sect are not good at actual combat, so losing is no big deal."

Although Qu Feiqing is the island master of Neon Light Island, she has a face as clear and elegant as a fairy. She speaks lazily and always with a smile on her face: "I heard that the young disciples of Xuanxu Sect went to West Mountain. Haven't you always wanted to see the legendary Fire Phoenix? Why don't you go to the mirror of the elders of Xuanxu Sect and see what it looks like in person."

All the elders of Xuanxu Sword Sect shuddered when they heard this. Tianxianzi pretended to be calm and put the Xuan Mirror inside.

"real?"

The young woman was none other than Lin Qian, the leader of the Beast Taming Sect. She turned her head with shining eyes and said, "I heard that the Fire Phoenix on the West Mountain is quite interesting. I plan to collect it as a spiritual pet when the secret realm opens next time. Elders, can you let me see it?"

The elders of Xuanxu Sect stared at each other and made eye contact, the scene was in a state of chaos.

Tianxianzi had a complicated expression and seemed to be hesitant to speak. After looking at Mayiao, he silently turned the Xuan Mirror and pointed it in the direction of Lin Qian.

The picture shows a piece of land that has been burned black and red. Among the devastation, a huge body is particularly eye-catching.

Bald head, bald body, bald wings and tail.

The darkness around its body was like the deep color of the night, and its wings were half open and half closed, as if still telling of the confusion and sadness in its life.

The night gave it a black burnt skin, but it used it to look for light.

Even through the mysterious mirror, you can smell the faint aroma of meat.

“This, this…”

Lin Qian's lips and voice trembled as she looked at the strange bird that was familiar to her memory: "Fire Phoenix?"

"This one, it was cooked by its own fire."

Tian Xianzi scratched his head and laughed hastily: "There's nothing we can do. It's already burnt like this... How about asking Ningning and the others to bring back some air-dried bacon for you to try?"

Lin Qian’s eyes went dark, his face was expressionless, and his eyes were sharp.

"Maybe there was a melee."

Qu Feiqing comforted her softly, and then said, "By the way, Liu Ying is traveling with Ning Ning. I wonder if Elder Tianxian can let me see what she is doing now?"

The elders all pretended to be distracted, some looked around to see the scenery, some drank tea with their heads lowered, and Ji Yunkai even whistled and pouting.

Tian Xianzi's expression became more complicated.

This time he did not dare to take action, but signaled Qu Feiqing to adjust the viewing angle of the mysterious mirror by herself. The female cultivator moved her wrist slightly, and the figure of a young girl appeared on the mirror.

In the picture, Liu Ying was holding a jade pendant in her hand, smiling in a simple and bitter way, and shouted to everyone: "You didn't expect it! I'm actually an undercover agent sent by Neon Island, and I came here specifically to steal the jade pendant!"

Qu Feiqing originally thought that the burnt fire phoenix was the end of everything, but she never expected that it was the beginning of all the tragedies.

Who can tell her.

Why was her beloved disciple Liu Ying also anxious?

Liu Ying used to be such a beautiful and lovely little girl, but now she looks so miserable that it is hard to look at her.

His fair little face was covered in black and gray. If you didn't know, you would think he had been digging coal underground for ten years. The most shocking thing is her hair.

The hair on his forehead looked like it had been burned, all curled up into twisted curls like seaweed;

From the front, it looks like he has become bald at a young age, with only a few curls on top of his head surviving, like a few tenacious weeds growing in the vast desert.

After only a short while, she went from being a fragrant young girl to a bright peak with a scorching aroma. She swayed and cried, "You threatened me, bullied me, and even roasted me on fire? You are not human. This is retribution!"

Some people are alive but already dead.

For a moment, it was hard to tell who was more miserable between Liu Ying and Huo Huang.

Qu Feiqing rarely smiled, and her eyes went dark as well. Her face was expressionless, and her eyes were sharp.

Tian Xianzi: ...

Tian Xianzi: "Well... two female Bodhisattvas, do I still have a chance to explain?"