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A deafening cry echoed from the golden light, and then a fiery red light rose above the trees. The red light gradually spread, dyeing the sky blood red. Lu Zhaozhao looked up, the intense light forcing her to squint. The sky flashed with a dazzling rainbow-like multicolored light. Golden thunder shattered the sky and earth, transforming into a giant phoenix, its feathers like burning flames, emitting a dazzling light.

The phoenix circled and danced in the sky, each flap of its wings causing powerful vibrations in the surrounding air. Its cry resounded throughout the forest, a sound like the sound of nature, shocking the soul to its core.

Nan Rongrui beside her seemed to be unable to control herself anymore. After the phoenix in the sky cried again, her true form was revealed. In the red-gold light, the ghostly blue feathers of the Guhuo bird seemed to have lost all their light. It bent down obediently and cried in submission in the direction of the phoenix.

Cheng Sangjie saw all of this. He silently pulled Tushan Xixiang over. Both of them looked unhappy at the moment, Cheng Sangjie even more so.

The Gu Diao is also a bird, and it is related to Nan Rongrui. At this moment, the phoenix cry can make Nan Rongrui reveal his true form, which also has a significant impact on him.

He stared at Fengming's direction with a frown, then bit his tongue with determination, and scarlet blood flowed down the corner of his mouth. The instant pain made him suddenly sober.

In a split second, he flung the magical instrument in his hand. The string of beads instantly grew dozens of times larger and flew towards the center of the forest at an extremely fast speed.

It was not until this moment that Lu Zhaozhao could clearly see the appearance of the beads.

The twelve blood-red beads contained countless dark red cracks, crisscrossing each other, and they did not look like dead objects. After being urged by Cheng Sangjie, they began to move faintly. The golden shells wrapped around the beads were all shattered, as if a captive beast had broken through, and what was imprisoned inside seemed to be a terrifying and strange beast.

In the blink of an eye, the beads had reached the side of the soaring phoenix.

"boom--"

An earth-shaking explosion sounded.

"Boom, boom, boom——"

Dozens of voices followed closely behind.

The unprecedented spiritual power impact was right in front of him. Lu Zhaozhao widened his eyes and his breathing became unconsciously rapid. He tightly grasped the collar of his shirt on his chest, wrinkling it into wrinkles.

"Bam—"

There was a muffled sound, and a black ring with a gold edge spread out from the center of the explosion.

Deathly silence filled the world in an instant.

"This is... a spatial black hole caused by a collision of spiritual energies!" Lu Zhaozhao thought to herself, and immediately retreated. She had seen descriptions of this spatial black hole in the library before. When powerful beings battled, they borrowed the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, capable of destroying heaven and earth. The collision of these spiritual energies caused the coordinated attraction between them to cause space to shatter, creating a spatial black hole that would continuously spread, devouring anything and everyone it touched.

Lu Zhaozhao ran wildly all the way. Cheng Sangjie and Tu Shanxi stood beside her. Cheng Sangjie was carrying Nan Rongrui on her back. She regained her human form when Fengming's pressure disappeared at the moment of the explosion, but she fainted at the moment of recovery.

They had no idea how long the black hole would spread, so they could only flee for their lives. As they ran, Lu Zhaozhao was puzzled. Logically, a scene this serious should have been caused by a duel between powerful beings like those at the Spiritual Transformation or Return to Void stage. However, this third-level demon was clearly only at the Out-of-Body stage, so how could it possibly possess such a powerful presence?

Before they could come up with an answer, they had already reached the junction of the second and third floors, and suddenly felt a burning sensation on their backs.

Lu Zhaozhao turned her head and saw golden light filling the entire sky. On the ground, there was endless flames. The boundless karmic fire reminded her of the Eight Hot Hells in hell where sinners were punished.

"It's the Nine-Layered Fire, hurry up!"

When Cheng Sangjie saw Lu Zhaozhao speak, he shouted loudly, trying to bring her back to her senses.

"Nine-fold fire? Heavenly fire!"

Lu Zhaozhao suddenly came back to her senses, a feeling of surprise bursting through her chest. If it weren't for the inappropriate situation, she really wanted to laugh out loud.

The second level of body refining, forged with the Nine Heavenly Fire, she searched through all the ancient books but could not find it, and unexpectedly she appeared in the Demon Realm.

"Huh." She exhaled a breath of foul air and paused. The black hole had vanished, and the once lush forest had now been completely devoured. Several foot-long cracks appeared on the charred surface. Lava swirled beneath, and the surroundings were filled with infernal fire.

Lu Zhaozhao gritted her teeth and raised her eyes again, her eyes full of determination. She looked towards the center. The phoenix seemed to have recovered long ago, and all nine heads were looking at her.

"It's Jiufeng..." After a sigh, the figure disappeared and Lu Zhaozhao rushed towards Jiufeng, even faster than the speed he used when he was escaping just now.

"Cough, cough." Cheng Sangjie supported himself on the ground with one hand, gently putting Nan Rongrui down and coughing uncontrollably. The beads had returned to his wrist, and he stroked the dull beads with resentment in his eyes.

From the moment he stepped off the third floor, he felt a vague sense of unease, a nagging feeling that reached its peak when Fengming appeared. Even before the phoenix fully emerged, he recognized it as a long-extinct ancient beast, a creature that had only appeared in ancient texts.

——Nine Phoenixes!

The fear from deep within his heart made him immediately summon the magic weapon on his wrist, wanting to suppress forever the strange beast that had not yet completely come into the world, but it seemed that he failed to do so.

Cheng Sangjie's eyes were bloodshot and his hands were clenched into fists on the muddy ground.

He was not reconciled.

Cheng Sangjie still remembered what his grandfather had said: on the day he was born, Luwu Mountain was ablaze with rosy clouds, stars fell like rain, thousands of birds chirped, and countless beasts bowed their heads. The ore, which had absorbed the spiritual energy of heaven and earth for millennia, revealed itself to him, willingly becoming his magical instrument. That day, the entire Western Territory knew that Gu Diao had forged a remarkable figure. Even after he suffered hardships and faced many dangers, the confidence borne from this innate honor sustained him through countless difficult times, allowing him to return to the pinnacle of his profession.

All of this was based on his innate talent and unparalleled status. But today, he met the Nine Phoenix, a being far superior to the Gu Diao. The story of the Nine Phoenix was long lost in the Western Territory, but the Gu Diao tribe once cryptically recorded it: Millions of years ago, the Nine Phoenix and the Candle Dragon coexisted in the world, all beasts bowing to them. The Gu Diao tribe, however, showed signs of disloyalty and was nearly wiped out upon discovery. Only a few survived, and only after the dragon and phoenix were annihilated did they gradually grow stronger.

This shame had been buried deep within Gu Diao's heart, and he had never forgotten it to this day. On ordinary days, he would have been at best sullen, but today, he had truly seen Jiu Feng. Although it wasn't real, and it might have been a ghost, the fear that emanated from his heart, coupled with the fact that even a ghost was too powerful for him to match, still made him unwilling to give in.

He pounded his fist on the ground so hard that the skin at the joints was broken.

"Where is Guannan? Why isn't she here?" After Tushan Xixiang settled Nan Rongrui, he suddenly realized that there were only three people in this open space, even though they had clearly arrived at the border together.

"What did you say?" Cheng Sangjie's expression was blank for a moment. From the moment he met Jiufeng until just now, his mind was so preoccupied that he had no time to pay attention to his surroundings. It was not until this moment when Tushan Xixiang asked the question that he noticed that Guannan really did not follow him out.

Suddenly, he seemed to have thought of something and turned around abruptly. In the center of the distant fire, a green shadow was getting farther and farther away from him.