"Is that... an eye?"
"What creature's eye is it? A phoenix's eye?"
"But why is it a ghastly green?"
Mu Jinyu felt his mind was a muddled mess, unable to comprehend what kind of existence lay beneath the purple-black magma!
"Screech!"
At that moment, a piercing bird's cry echoed.
Then, under Mu Jinyu's terrified gaze, the purple-black magma at the bottom of the abyss began to boil fiercely, as a massive object slowly rose from the magma.
In no time, the purple-black magma slid off completely from the object, revealing its true form.
It was indeed a phoenix!
Its entire body was over ten zhang long, and if you count the length of its wings, it should be over twenty zhang!
But what made one's scalp tingle was...
This phoenix had long been dead, its massive body devoid of life, only icy coldness and death.
Yet it remained indestructible and eternal!
Its once radiant, glorious phoenix feathers had turned from bright red to purple-black, exuding a chilling aura.
Its cold eyes appeared ghastly green, embodying endless resentment, unwillingness, and despair!
It had been dead for an unknown number of years, devoid of life, its wings never moved, its massive body somehow being lifted by a mysterious force!
"Is this a dead phoenix? Or a fallen demon phoenix?"
Mu Jinyu saw this scene, his scalp almost bursting, feeling at a loss.
"Chirp chirp chirp!"
The little phoenix, upon seeing this, changed its calls from joyous eagerness to frightened panic, with a hint of helplessness.
Clearly, it hadn't expected the phoenix bloodline it sensed here to be such a bizarre and terrifying existence.
"Screech!"
Silently, a tyrannical cry echoed like thunder throughout the world.
Even Wen Rou and the other two outside the Poison Marsh Pond were filled with doubt and uncertainty.
"What happened inside?"
"Was that cry just now coming from the Poison Marsh Pond?"
"Could it be... the little phoenix encountered some opportunity?"
Wen Rou and Jian Ruyan discussed with uncertainty.
Instinctively, they dismissed bad thoughts, choosing to discuss more positively.
After all, even if Mu Jinyu truly encountered danger with the little phoenix inside, their abilities were too weak to even enter the Poison Marsh, making rescue impossible, rendering anxiety useless, so it was better to hope for the best.
Yet, their hearts were filled with deep unease.
After all, the shrill cry didn't sound like the little phoenix gaining an opportunity, but rather... encountering danger!
And as the tyrannical phoenix cry echoed through the Cursed Soul Forest!
The small mounds in the deserted graveyard Mu Jinyu and others encountered collapsed inward, flattening the land, making it completely indistinguishable from its original mound-covered state.
And the demon evil ghost trees wandering in the perimeter all shuddered their branches a few times, and several withered trees couldn't withstand the inexplicable energy current, shattering with a boom!
...
Perched on the precipice, Mu Jinyu was unaware of everything happening outside, and even if he knew, he had no time to ponder.
At this moment, he faced the gigantic approaching body of the fallen demon phoenix, feeling the terrifying force and curse force filled with despair, unwillingness, and resentment, with no resistance rising in his heart!
It was too terrifying!
The intense impact defied description.
Like a mortal walking on the road, suddenly a runaway plane was plummeting directly at your head!
The helpless feeling of awaiting death almost suffocated him.
"What to do? Is this the terrifying source of the Cursed Soul Forest? Who killed it back then, preventing it from achieving nirvana even in death? How can I stop it from coming?"
Mu Jinyu racked his brains, yet found he seemed to possess no ability to resist.
Neither the "Green Emperor's Wood Emperor Art," nor the "Dragon Transformation Scripture," or the "Killing Character Secret Technique" could empower him to contend with this supreme existence.
And even the mystical little tree in his mind remained dormant, as if suppressed, or unwilling to help until his imminent death, making it impossible for Jinyu to pin all his hopes on it.
Finally, Mu Jinyu thought of something that might barely contend with it!
With a flip of his hand, his palm revealed a small jade vial full of restrictions.
If Divine Sense could penetrate it, it might see the dozen ferocious and aggressive little dragons inside.
It was the Dragon Resentment Evil Poison Mu Jinyu extracted after repairing the fractured Dragon Vein at Yinlong Mountain!
Last time, encountering the demon phoenix of Demon Emperor level in the Demon Beast Mountain Range during Tribulation Transcendence, he had considered using the Dragon Resentment Evil Poison!
But due to the demon phoenix being disturbed by a Heavenly Tribulation, making it difficult to act, he didn't use it, opting instead to directly refine the demon phoenix into the present bald little phoenix.
And now, facing the even more terrifying fallen phoenix, Mu Jinyu had no confidence that the Dragon Resentment Evil Poison could deal with it, but he had no better options.
He could only try!
"Pop!"
Seeing the enormous body getting closer to him and the little phoenix while thick waves of death and resentment aura spread out, Mu Jinyu hurriedly uncorked the vial and hurled it out!
"Bang!"
The jade vial flew out, but didn't manage to hit the fallen demon phoenix's body; with three zhang distance left, an inexplicably powerful energy destroyed the vial entirely.
Not a trace of powder remained.
"Roar!"
And at that moment, with the destruction of the vial, the imprisoned Dragon Resentment Evil Poison roared in fury, transforming into nine ghostly black evil dragons!
They had no Spiritual Wisdom, seeing the fallen phoenix, they launched straight at it.
"Roar!"
"Screech!!"
The formless Dragon Resentment Evil Poison was intangible, and back then Mu Jinyu managed to capture it thanks to the Mountain Protection Array; now, it charged through the bizarre curse of the fallen demon phoenix, entering its dead body...
The nine ghostly black evil dragons drilled into the fallen demon phoenix's corpse, behaving like eels through tofu, incessantly burrowing while voraciously absorbing the boundless death, resentment, and evil qi within...
Causing the nine evil dragons to grow from the size of eels to over nine zhang each!
Now, the nine evil dragons, once mere wriggling maggots within the demon phoenix's corpse, became the scene of a "Nine Dragons Locking Phoenix" battle!
For a while, dragon roars and phoenix cries echoed endlessly!