"You little beast, such a vicious heart, such sinister calculations!"
Ji Ran lay on the ground gasping for air. When he saw Mu Jinyu appear, an uncontrollable surge of intense resentment overflowed in his eyes.
He hated Mu Jinyu to death, this kid!
First, he killed his brother.
Then, he deceived him with life-extending spiritual medicine to lure him into the Cursed Soul Forest, leading him into a situation where he barely survived, left with only a crippled leg, and now utterly hopeless of escaping the Cursed Soul Forest.
"Hehe, I'm here to send you off."
Mu Jinyu had nothing more to say to Ji Ran, he raised his hand and tossed out the Bi Fang Cauldron, intending to crush him to death.
"Boom!!"
As the Bi Fang Cauldron was tossed, it instantly grew larger against the wind, transforming into a gigantic cauldron three zhang high, carrying an overwhelming destructive might, like The Immortal of Colossal Spirit lifting a mountain and fiercely throwing it at its enemy, pressing down on Ji Ran below!
"Clang!"
At the critical moment, Ji Ran burned his essence blood, activating the Demon God Tower to clash against the Bi Fang Cauldron.
The two spiritual treasures clashed with each other, rules emerged, divine light erupted, constructing chains of order that bound the spiritual treasures, entwining them so they couldn't separate from each other.
"Little beast! Let's die together!"
Taking advantage of this opportunity, Ji Ran burned his broken pill, essence blood, soul, essentially all of his lifelong cultivation, and then, like turning into a blood-flame evil spirit, he charged menacingly at Mu Jinyu!
A powerhouse at the False Merged Path Realm, burning his lifetime of cultivation, at this moment, the brilliant wonder that erupted was extremely dazzling, enough to unleash an angry strike of a genuine Unity Realm Stage powerhouse.
At this moment, Ji Ran was like a meteor cutting through the night sky, with only a moment of splendid brilliance, but enough to leave a deep impression.
"Crap, Ji Ran intends to perish together with Brother Mu!"
Zhuo Yue behind Mu Jinyu saw this scene and became extremely tense, very much breaking into a cold sweat for Mu Jinyu.
Wen Rou and Jian Ruyan were equally worried; they didn't expect that after cornering Ji Ran with dangerous moves, he could still unleash such a terrifying strike, which truly caught them off guard.
Watching the whole body burning intense blood flame, Ji Ran, like an evil spirit escaping from hell, pounce at him, a trace of surprise flashed in Mu Jinyu's eyes as well.
Feeling the terrifying oppressive pressure of a Unity Realm powerhouse, Mu Jinyu felt his whole body incapable of moving, and his expression became all the more grave.
Luckily, he knew Ji Ran was always deeply scheming, where would someone who could wait at the exit for five days after they entered the death zone of the Cursed Soul Forest, be a good person?!
This is an absolutely ruthless guy!
Thus, Mu Jinyu had always kept the Dragon-Phoenix Resentful Fiend ready, just in case!
"Bang!"
In the critical moment, Mu Jinyu pulled off the cork, throwing the bottle at the Ji Ran engulfed in a turbulent blood flame.
The jade bottle shattered, and a creature entirely pitch-black, resembling both a dragon and a phoenix, instantly broke free from its constraints. After letting out a roar to the sky, it expanded rapidly, reaching over ten zhang long in an instant, then opened its giant mouth and swallowed the blood-flamed Ji Ran whole.
After swallowing Ji Ran alive, this creature, over ten zhang long, resembling a Five-Clawed Golden Dragon but covered in black scales, and with a pair of Phoenix Wings grew from its back, suddenly had a fleeting red glimmer over its body.
But it quickly dissipated.
There was no further bizarre transformation induced in the Dragon-Phoenix Resentful Fiend.
Evidently, this old Ji Ran, whether it's his bloodline, cultivation, or the aura of resentment and the curse and deathly qi he carried, was not enough to induce another mutation in the Dragon-Phoenix Resentful Fiend.
It's merely an appetizer!
"Roar!"
The Dragon-Phoenix Resentful Fiend revived and roared upwards, not satisfied with only devouring an old undying one. It then turned its attention to the Demon God Tower clashing with the Bi Fang Cauldron!
"No!"
Mu Jinyu, exerting full force in operating the "Dragon Transformation Scripture" was activating the latent Dragon Soul within him to suppress the Dragon-Phoenix Resentful Fiend, saw this, and couldn't help but panic.
He thought that after the Dragon-Phoenix Resentful Fiend came out and dealt with Ji Ran, it should first target the Dragon Soul within him, thus hastening the Dragon Soul out to suppress it.
But unexpectedly, after solving Ji Ran, it didn't target him first, but rather fixated on the two spiritual treasures.
And whether it was the Bi Fang Cauldron or the Demon God Tower, both were top-grade spiritual treasures, the Demon God Tower in particular was once a Heaven-reaching spiritual treasure, if lost, it would cause Mu Jinyu great heartache!
"Roar!"
A piercing roar lit up; the chains of order binding the two spiritual treasures immediately separated, the Bi Fang Cauldron flew towards Mu Jinyu, while the Demon God Tower fled desperately as if a mouse met a cat, attempting to escape through the void!
"Roar!"
But how would the Dragon-Phoenix Resentful Fiend allow it to succeed, after all, it was no longer a Heaven-reaching spiritual treasure, and its internal artifact spirit lacked any spiritual wisdom. With an angry roar, the Demon God Tower was forcefully locked in midair, unable to escape.
Then, the Dragon-Phoenix Resentful Fiend, resembling a giant snake, flew to the side of the Demon God Tower, twisted its body around the three zhang long bone tower form, then opened its large mouth and gulped down the skull on the top of the tower and the two jet-black gemstones embedded in its eye sockets.
"Buzz!!"
As the gleaming white skull and the two jet-black gemstones embedded in it were ingested, suddenly, the entire body of the Dragon-Phoenix Resentful Fiend glowed with an additional dark radiance, almost turning into violently burning black flames.
Thereafter, bone spurs sprouted from its black scales, making the Dragon-Phoenix creature all the more ferocious and fearsome.
"Ah roar!"
The Dragon-Phoenix Resentful Fiend opened its giant mouth and consumed the first four layers of the five-layered bone tower, leaving only the final pedestal.
With a few chews, the Dragon-Phoenix Resentful Fiend began to emit a faint ivory bone light from its entire body, making the bone spurs it sprouted even more fierce.
Just as Mu Jinyu was worried that the situation was slipping out of control.
"Roar!!"
A majestic, awe-inspiring dragon roar echoed through the entire Cursed Soul Forest, and the Dragon Soul hidden in Mu Jinyu's body was finally forced out.
Immediately, the Dragon-Phoenix Resentful Fiend, who was ready to swallow the bone tower pedestal, was suppressed to the point of immobility.
But Mu Jinyu found, unlike during its initial suppression after devouring the Fallen Demon Phoenix's deathly qi, where it became completely immobile like a black stone sculpture, the current Dragon-Phoenix Resentful Fiend, possibly due to ingesting the Divine Phoenix's origin and growing a pair of phoenix wings, and recently consuming the strange skull and two black gemstones, had transformed significantly, becoming less dragon-like, leading to a reduced suppressive power from the Golden Dragon Soul.
The Dragon-Phoenix Resentful Fiend, though motionless after the Dragon Soul appeared, trembled all over, seemingly a little push away from breaking free...
This made Mu Jinyu extremely uneasy.
Thus, Mu Jinyu dared not delay further, hurriedly taking out a jade bottle engraved with multiple layers of restrictions and storing the Dragon-Phoenix Resentful Fiend within.
"Plop!"
With the Dragon-Phoenix Resentful Fiend taken away by Mu Jinyu, the last layer of the Demon God Tower's pedestal suddenly fell from mid-air.