Pan Yang was speechless. He grabbed his tail and pulled him up: "Didn't you say you could beat the Heavenly Emperor?"
"My magic power has only recovered to one-tenth! And this person's strength should be above the Heavenly Emperor's. Give me a few days!" The nine-tailed fox was somewhat embarrassed and angry; it was truly infuriating for a fox!
Afterwards, the group met with the late emperor, and after various discussions, the Nine-Tailed Fox was temporarily handed over to Pan Yang.
However, there was also good news: the palace on Wutong Mountain was completed, and miraculously, all the paulownia trees had awakened and sprouted lush leaves.
Pan Yang naturally wanted to return to Wutong Mountain to live, since it was a more suitable place for the phoenix to cultivate and transform. He only wanted to become an adult now.
The nine-tailed fox, or rather, the one who drew the jade, lay lazily on the paulownia leaves, having been sealed away for thousands of years. When had it ever felt so comfortable?
"Little Phoenix, you're still cultivating?" Yin Yu squinted at Fan Yang. "If you ask me, you should be sunbathing with me."
Hearing his voice, Pan Yang walked over and grabbed its tail: "You've lived for so long, do you know how to quickly transform into your adult form?"
"No wonder you're so diligent, put me down first!" Yin Yu struggled somewhat indignantly, finally landing on the ground on all fours.
“Other fairies or immortals either grow year by year or cultivate, but the phoenix is different; it needs a trigger.”
"What was the trigger?"
"I don't know, I'm not a phoenix." Yin Yu lay on the ground, refusing to look at Fan Yang.
Pan Yang: "......" Very good, now there's another person I want to get rid of.
001: "Host, the hidden figure is in danger."
"???" Let him fend for himself.
"Host!"
Pan Yang sighed and grabbed Yin Yu's tail to go find Zhou Yang.
Finally, they found Zhou Yang collapsed on the ground under the sycamore tree in Zhou Yang's palace.
Pan Yang attempted to probe with his magical power, but it seemed as if something else within Zhou Yang's body was blocking him.
Just as Pan Yang was starting to get impatient, Yin Yu spoke up: "He has demonic energy on him."
"Demonic energy?" Pan Yang looked at Yin Yu. Wasn't this something on Qu Yuanyuan's body? How did a hidden character get tainted by demonic energy?
Yin Yu looked closely at Zhou Yang and said, "This demonic energy has penetrated deep into his lifeblood. Even the Phoenix Essence Blood cannot remove it unless there is an Infant Spirit Fruit."
"What is that?" Fan Yang wanted to pull his tail again.
“That’s something that only exists in the Demon Realm. It’s extremely precious and should only be possessed by the Demon Lord,” Yin Yu Lianming said as he dodged the evil claws.
Pan Yang looked at Zhou Yang with a furrowed brow. Only when Zhou Yang slowly opened his eyes did he say, somewhat indistinctly, "Little Phoenix? Don't frown, smile more."
After saying this, Zhou Yang fell into a coma again.
Yinyu licked his paws: "He probably won't live much longer. You're not going to the Demon Realm, are you? That's much more dangerous than the Valley of Ten Thousand Demons."
Pan Yang stood up: "Keep a close eye on him and wait for me to come back." With that, he turned and left, heading straight for the Demon Realm.
Then, unsurprisingly, the Demon Realm exploded.
A loud crash was heard at the Demon Lord's palace, and almost half of the palace was razed to the ground.
The culprit who caused the trouble stood on the ruins, holding a white sword and looking indifferently at the trembling Demon Lord.
These days, are phoenixes that powerful even before they've reached adulthood?
The Demon Lord, with snot and tears streaming down his face, said, "It's not what you want, brother. I'll give it to you."
"Infant Spirit Fruit," Pan Yang said, shaking the dust off his sword.
"You should have said so earlier!" The Demon Lord was shocked. He thought that when Fan Yang came over so aggressively, he was coming to kill him!
Pan Yang blinked. Was it really that simple?
001: "......." You've turned someone's palace into ruins, how could it not be simple!
Then Pan Yang took the Infant Spirit Fruit and left.
However, not long after Fan Yang left, Shang Qing arrived.
He was somewhat surprised to see the almost completely destroyed palace, but without thinking much about it, he directly addressed the Demon Lord, saying, "Infant Spirit Fruit, I have done what I promised you."
The Demon Lord was nothing like he had been when he met Pan Yang. Instead, he sat on the ruins, completely unconcerned, and said, "It was stolen by your immortal clan's little phoenix."
Shang Qing frowned upon hearing this, and then said to Pan Yang, "You promised me! Give me the Infant Spirit Fruit."
The Demon Lord, however, showed no fear whatsoever. Instead, he laughed and said, "I did agree, but there's only one Infant Spirit Fruit. If the little phoenix snatched it, you can ask him for it back."
"Besides, even mortals cannot withstand the Infant Spirit Fruit; only then can the Phoenix's lifeline be eradicated, right?"
The Demon Lord stood up and walked step by step to Shang Qing: "So, why don't you kill him and take his life?"
"He's in the Immortal Realm." To kill a phoenix in the Immortal Realm is practically suicide.
"This is not simple. The little phoenix accidentally entered the demon realm and became tainted by demonic energy. Because she was too young, she lost her mind, and the God of War Shang Qing accidentally killed her."
The Demon Lord's eyes were full of laughter: "At that time, Qu Yuanyuan will be the new phoenix reborn from the ashes, and you will still be the God of War of the Immortal Realm."
Shang Qing snorted and turned to leave, leaving only the Demon Lord behind. The Demon Lord watched him go and his smile faded. He had been thinking that the people in the Immortal Realm would kill each other, and when the Immortal Realm was in chaos, that would be the time for the Demon Realm to rule everything.
Inside the palace, Yin Yu looked at the Infant Spirit Fruit in Pan Yang's hand with some shock. "Big brother hasn't even arrived in half a day, how did you manage to do that?!"
"You? You sneaked in?" Yin Yu asked incredulously.
"No, half the palace was destroyed." Pan Yang shook his head, his tone as simple as if he were just eating breakfast.
Yin Yu said, "As expected of you, you're amazing! Luckily, I didn't fight head-on, or I would have been killed by Fan Yang."
Pan Yang shook the Infant Spirit Fruit and asked, "How do I get it?"
"Use your magic to channel this into his body, and then use the Phoenix Blood Essence. You'll need to slowly force out the demonic energy step by step," Yin Yu said, looking at Zhou Yang.
"You need to think this through carefully. If you lose even a few drops of the Phoenix's essence blood, your magical power will be halved."
No sooner had he finished speaking than Shang Qing barged over.
"Pan Yang, give me the Infant Spirit Fruit." His tone was somewhat impatient.
The next second, Pan Yang swiftly used his magic to transfer the Infant Spirit Fruit into Zhou Yang's body.
Pan Yang shrugged: "That's all."
"You!" Shang Qing gritted his teeth, wanting to go up and attack, but suddenly left as if he had some urgent business to attend to.
Pan Yang was somewhat confused, but he didn't care. He then followed Yin Yu's instructions to remove the demonic energy from Zhou Yang.
In a bamboo hut in the mortal realm, a woman lay on the bed, her face pale, with a pool of blood on the floor beside the bed.
"Yuanyuan." Shang Qing appeared in the bamboo house, looking at the woman with some anxiety.
Qu Yuanyuan opened her eyes weakly: "Shang Qing, did you get the Infant Spirit Fruit?"
A hint of hatred flashed in Shang Qing's eyes. He then squatted down and carefully helped the woman up: "She was taken away by Fan Yang."
As soon as she finished speaking, a few tears rolled down Qu Yuanyuan's cheeks: "Why does Phoenix treat me like this? I just want to live."
"Shang Qing, you'll find a way, right? Can you take me to see Fan Yang? I don't want to die. Can you talk to him properly and lend me your lifeline?" Qu Yuanyuan gripped Shang Qing's sleeve tightly, her tone anxious.
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