Spiritual power spread out from her palm and covered the barrier.
Yaohua gave a hard push, and the barrier under her palm shattered like a fragile vase, pieces clattering to the ground.
Her wings unfurled boldly, like a brilliant meteor streaking across the gloomy night sky.
The radiant light landed, and her wings folded back and disappeared on her back.
Not far away, Feng Jing sat on the ground with his hair disheveled. A bloodstain ran from his cheekbone to the corner of his mouth, and his white robe was mottled with blood. In his arms, he held his unconscious fourth elder brother.
"Second elder brother!"
Just as Yaohua was about to walk over, Feng Jing shouted sharply to stop her.
"Don't come over!"
Why?
Before Yaohua could solve her doubts, she saw green - glowing barbs suddenly sprout from the ground around Feng Jing.
"What is this?"
"They are the blood thorns of the Heavenly Demons. Touch them and your intestines will be pierced, and you'll turn into a pool of blood."
Yaohua's eyelids twitched. She looked at Feng Jing sitting still on the spot and suddenly noticed that his pupils were white, as if covered with a layer of mist.
He was clearly looking at her, but Yaohua couldn't find any reflection of herself in his well - shaped eyes.
Yaohua's pupils constricted, and she almost instantly reacted.
"Second elder brother, your eyes..."
Feng Jing freed a hand and silently touched the corner of his eye. His tone was calm, and there was even a faint smile on his face. "I'm just blind. When did you leave seclusion? Where's father?"
Yaohua nodded with tears in her eyes. Then she remembered that he couldn't see her action at all. "I left seclusion last night. Father is taking care of the sixth elder brother and the clan members now." She choked a little. "Wait for me. I'll come and save you right away."
"The blood thorns are not afraid of fire or water, and they can reorganize even after being broken." Feng Jing shook his head slightly. "Unless there's a way to uproot them."
In that case, she couldn't use the True Fire of the Phoenix.
Yaohua frowned slightly. How could she uproot so many blood thorns?
"Anyway, as long as you don't get touched by the blood thorns."
The system's voice came again. Yaohua was momentarily flattered. Why was it so friendly today?
Could it be that the demonic energy was so alluring to it?
Yaohua protected her hand with the Phoenix Fire and rummaged through the space to find a hoe. She tried to dig out a blood thorn.
"The roots of these blood thorns are not very deep."
She thought for a while, then suddenly sat down on the ground. She took out a stack of talisman papers and folded several paper cows and plows.
She covered the plows with a thin layer of the True Fire of the Phoenix and injected spiritual power into the papers. Soon, the paper cows dragged the plows to till the land.
It might be impossible to uproot them, so burning their roots with the True Fire of the Phoenix would do.
The paper cows mooed, as if disturbing someone. A groan was heard, and a figure slowly sat up from Feng Jing's arms.
This person was the fourth elder brother.
Looking at the cows tilling the land along the blood thorns and Yaohua sitting outside the blood thorns, he suddenly opened his eyes wide.
The red dress outlined the delicate and slender figure of the girl in front of him. Her black hair was like a cloud, only fixed on her head with a phoenix flower hairpin. The True Fire of the Phoenix swirling in front of her cast a faint golden glow on her features. Her well - proportioned and delicate facial features were now even more charming, just like a peony flower.
"Am I dreaming? How come I see my sister?" Mu Ai subconsciously shifted his body, hiding the right side of his body behind Feng Jing.
"It's me." Yaohua managed to give him a smile.
The fourth elder brother's situation was no better than the second elder brother's. Yaohua noticed that his right sleeve was empty, and the smile on her lips almost disappeared.
After the paper cows finished tilling the land and completed their mission, the Phoenix Fire on them spontaneously burned them.
There was still residual demonic energy on the withered blood thorns. Yaohua used a glazed bottle to collect it all, and then helped Feng Jing up with Mu Ai.
"Second elder brother, fourth elder brother, let's go back first."
As soon as she finished speaking, the ground vibrated, and sand and dust rose from all directions. It seemed that something terrifying was about to appear.
Yaohua transformed into a phoenix, threw her two elder brothers on her back, and flew out of the mountain without looking back.
No matter what it was, it was better to run first.
Strangely enough, Huikun Mountain was not as big as Danxue Mountain, but Yaohua flew for a long time without getting out.
Helpless, she had to bring her two elder brothers back to the ground.
"Don't tell me we've fallen into another formation?"
She was a pure magic cultivator and knew little about formations. If they really had fallen into a formation, she would just split the mountain.
She just hoped that the God of Fire wouldn't blame her.
"It seems like we've encountered a ghost wall." Mu Ai scratched his head.
"Forget it. Whatever it is." Yaohua raised her hand. The True Fire of the Phoenix crackled, containing extremely powerful spiritual power. She threw it out.
She waved her sleeve to create a barrier, isolating the deafening sound outside.
The fireball hit the nearest mountain peak, causing a cloud of flying sand and stones. It leveled the mountain peak before it stopped. After the commotion subsided, Yaohua finally showed a smile.
No matter what ghost wall it was, it was useless in the face of absolute strength.
Yaohua transformed into a phoenix again and was about to fly out of Huikun Mountain with her two elder brothers.
This time, the flight was smooth.
Just as Yaohua was starting to relax, a huge tail came smashing towards her.
She barely dodged it, and then several more tails came, one after another.
This tail was like a snake but not really. Because it was covered with many barbs, just like the blood thorns she had just removed with the iron cows.
"What on earth is this?" Yaohua raised her neck. When she almost got brushed by the tail again, the anger in her chest finally reached its peak.
These damned things! Are they ever going to stop? Do they really think she's afraid?
When the next tail swung over, she spat out a ball of fire, which turned into a chain and firmly grasped the tail.
"Watch out behind you!"
As soon as Mu Ai finished speaking, he saw the True Fire of the Phoenix around Yaohua rush straight back. Just like before, it chained the huge tail.
And Yaohua's next action really shocked him.
The phoenix was surrounded by radiant light. Dozens of balls of the True Fire of the Phoenix under it tightly grasped the constantly waving huge tails. Like braiding a rope, they intertwined those ugly tails.
The True Fire of the Phoenix that had been restraining the tails gathered together and turned into a huge hand. It was like a hand reaching from the sky, grabbing the thick braid and suddenly pulling it up.
Rumble—
The sound from the depths of the earth resounded through the sky. Mu Ai couldn't help but use his intact hand to set up a barrier to protect their ears.
Gradually, a turtle - shaped thing was pulled out forcefully by Yaohua.
The True Fire of the Phoenix held the "turtle" upside - down. Yaohua finally saw its true appearance clearly.
All the black air lingering on Huikun Mountain was attached to this thing. Just like pulling out a radish and bringing up the mud, Huikun Mountain suddenly became much cleaner.
Yaohua landed on the ground and looked at the "turtle" maliciously.
"System brother, this big turtle should be worth a lot of demonic energy, right?"