A tremendous suction force emanated from the golden phoenix's mouth, distorting the figure of the sword-wielding youth and slowly drawing him closer to the golden phoenix.
"Don't hurt him..." Black Owl struggled to prop himself up from the ground.
Seeing the painful expression on the boy's face, which seemed to match some memories deep in his mind, he felt a pang of pain in his heart, but his head was throbbing with an even more intense, excruciating pain.
“Master, wake up. He’s fake. He’s just a phantom created by the array spirit. He’s not a real person,” Jinluan communicated with Heixiao through divine sense.
"Is it fake?" Black Owl's handsome brows furrowed tightly as he endured the excruciating headache and the pain from his injuries.
"Yes, it's an illusion array that conjures up people or things that can most influence the master through the master's thoughts. They're all fake," Jinluan said in a childish voice, yet she sounded like a little adult.
Black Owl knew in his heart that Jin Luan was right.
He had suspected this before, but he had too many complicated feelings for this boy, and even if it was a false illusion, he couldn't bear to hurt him.
The Mist Spirit Boy was swallowed by the Golden Phoenix, and the little Golden Phoenix flapped its tiny fleshy wings to slowly restore its swollen body to its original state.
Then, continue searching for other Mist Spirits hidden in the shadows, focusing on Black Owl.
Qingluan, however, didn't need to; it ate here and there with great relish.
It doesn't even need to move.
Because Ji Fengming has a truly wild imagination, the mist spirits in his illusions are everywhere.
The transformation of the Mist Spirit consumes the spiritual power of the array base materials.
The two little creatures ate bite by bite, and the entire illusion array was on the verge of collapse.
Gu Da hadn't figured out what Shang Xiye was doing when he suddenly saw two gluttons popping out from Ji Fengming and Hei Xiao. His face darkened, and he threw another batch of materials into the formation to maintain its stability.
But to his surprise, before he could even finish brewing a cup of tea, the great formation was already on the verge of collapse again, thanks to the Golden Phoenix and the Azure Phoenix.
They lost several waves like this.
Even Gu Lin, who was known as a spendthrift, felt sorry for them: "Big brother, what are these two things? They can eat so much!"
Guda's face was as dark as the bottom of a pot, he was in a dilemma.
He hadn't expected that the Golden Phoenix and Azure Phoenix, those two gluttons, would suddenly appear. The materials for this formation were extremely precious and rare. If they were allowed to keep eating like this, the cost of killing the Ninth Prince would be too high, and the Gu family would suffer a net loss.
But he was not prepared for the operation to fail at all, and he did not allow the Gu family to prepare for the relocation.
If they give up now, and the Ninth Prince and those two bandits escape, given their personalities, the Gu family branch of the Great Zhao Hangu Pass will likely face dire consequences.
As Gu Da poured materials into the formation wave after wave, Gu Lin, despite his lust for Ji Fengyao's beauty, couldn't resist the heartache for the precious materials: "Brother, why don't we just let it go this time? The supply of each branch of our Gu family is limited. It's not worth wasting it all on these two."
"Go and tell everyone in the house to move," Guda said, his voice filled with pain.
Gu Lin nodded and quickly turned to leave.
Looking at Shang Xiye, who was still easily lifting the corner of the wall in the middle of the formation, Gu Da felt more and more unwilling.
Despite using so many rare and precious materials, he failed to harm Shang Xiye in the slightest.
If this gets to the ears of anyone who has contact with the Gu family, wouldn't they become a laughing stock?
The Gu family is at the very top of the world; how could they possibly suffer this injustice in silence?
Even if we can't take the Ninth Prince's life today, we must make him pay a heavy price!
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