After some deep thought, Yaohua slowly spoke up, "Yaoyao looked absent - minded as soon as she went out. It's very likely that Muhua is behind this. But strangely enough, there's a lot of demonic qi on Yaoyao. Could it be that Muhua used demonic qi to control her?"
Muhua is an ancient god! How could he use demonic qi to control others?
Chongming thought for a while and also found this matter rather strange.
He took out his communication jade token and asked the God of War Chenyu how to deal with this.
Chenyu replied lazily, "This is not difficult. First, expel the demonic qi from Yaoyao's body. Then her mind will return to normal. After that, use the tracking technique to find the culprit through the connection between her and the caster."
Without delay, the two immediately started to expel the demonic qi from Yaoyao's body.
The demonic qi was slowly sucked out of her body and fell into the jade bottle in Yaohua's hand. The black aura lingering between Yaoyao's eyebrows gradually dissipated, and her struggling body gradually stopped resisting.
When all the demonic qi was sucked into the jade bottle, she slumped down softly.
Yaohua carefully closed the jade bottle. Chongming stepped forward to check on Yaoyao, "Due to the invasion of demonic qi, she's mentally weak and has many injuries on her body. She must go into seclusion and sleep immediately."
Yaohua untied the chains on her hands and feet. After much thought, she still set up a spiritual energy cage for her and left her a note, "Yaoyao, Daddy and Mommy are leaving to deal with Muhua. Stay here obediently and don't move around."
After saying that, the two looked at each other and prepared to set off.
"How should we use the tracking technique?" she asked.
Chongming held the jade bottle in his hand and made a hand - gesture. The jade bottle became translucent, and the demonic qi inside condensed into an arrow pointing south.
Thousands of miles away, in a cave.
In front of Muhua was a water mirror, which reflected the sleeping Yaoyao.
He tried to control her but failed repeatedly. He couldn't help muttering to himself, "Could it be that the distance is too far, which caused my spell to fail?"
This was an ancient spell he found after reading many ancient books. There was no reason for it to be so easily broken.
Suddenly, the ground shook and the mountain trembled. The soil on the top of the cave fell rustling down.
He quickly flew out of the cave but was caught right under a large net.
The net emitted golden light and bound him tightly.
He struggled desperately, but the net tightened even more. He couldn't help cursing angrily, "It's you? How did you track me down here?"
Yaohua used the True Fire of the Phoenix. Thinking that it was him who controlled Yaoyao to hurt others, she was extremely angry.
The True Fire of the Phoenix blazed up and burned away the demonic qi on Muhua.
"You've fallen into demonic ways?!" Chongming quickly noticed something strange.
Muhua cursed under his breath. His face turned pale, obviously unable to bear the burning of the true fire.
He pasted a talisman on himself and immediately disappeared from the net.
"It's another teleportation array." The couple looked at each other and headed in the direction the jade bottle was pointing.
The direction the jade bottle was pointing was on a snowfield thousands of miles away. As soon as they arrived at the snowfield, they saw Muhua.
In front of him, the Primordial Pearl was slowly rotating.
The two landed on the ground and were about to take action when countless ice cages suddenly rose from the ground and trapped them directly.
Chongming drew his sword and slashed at the cage, while Yaohua used the True Fire of the Phoenix. But neither the burning nor the slashing had any effect on the ice cage.
"I advise you not to waste your efforts." Seeing that they couldn't break free from the cage, Muhua heaved a sigh of relief and then laughed complacently.
"What on earth do you want?" Yaohua was annoyed by his smug look and directly questioned him.
Muhua sneered, "What I want to do, you'll know soon!"
After saying that, he took out a jade hairpin and started drawing on the snow.
"It's a formation." Chongming said.
Yaohua felt an uneasiness in her heart, as if something big was about to happen.
No matter what methods the two in the cage used, they couldn't break free from it.
After a while, the formation on the ground emitted a silver light, indicating its completion.
Muhua made a hand - gesture and said, "Go!"
The silver light rose from the formation and slowly floated into the air, then emitted a strong suction force.
Chongming didn't feel anything, but Yaohua hugged her head in pain, "Ah—"
She couldn't help roaring. Then she transformed into her original form. Her huge phoenix body was curled up in the small cage, looking extremely pitiful.
A spiritual light rose from her head and fell into the silver light.
Muhua laughed excitedly, "I searched through many ancient books to find this method of stripping the phoenix's spiritual light. Without the spiritual light, the phoenix is just a useless creature. What can you use to compete with me?"
Chongming was extremely anxious and tried to stop it, but the formation suppressed all his spiritual power.
Muhua waved his hand, and Yaoyao, who should have been in the Danxue Mountain, appeared in front of him. He forcibly pressed the phoenix's spiritual light onto Yaoyao's body and also injected the system into her.
Yaoyao's body couldn't bear this sudden influx of things and trembled in pain.
Yaohua lay dying in the cage. A line of clear tears flowed from the phoenix's eyes.
Yaoyao opened her eyes, but her body was surrounded by demonic qi, and the voice of the system came out of her mouth, "Hahaha, I finally have my own body!"
At this moment, an astonishing power suddenly erupted around Chongming.
He gathered all his strength and attacked a point in the formation.
The formation shattered with a roar, setting off gusts of snow - wind.
The snowflakes fell on the fiery - red phoenix body and turned into spiritual power, repairing Yaohua's injuries. Without the obstruction of the formation, she soon returned to her human form.
Before Muhua could react, Chongming grabbed Yaoyao and then swung his sword.
Muhua dared to confront them only because the formation had trapped them. Now, of course, he didn't dare to resist them and quickly used the teleportation array to escape.
Chongming's gaze fell on "Yaoyao".
The system quickly said, "Don't, don't. I didn't collude with him. He sensed the aura of the Nine - Heavens Mysterious Demon himself, so he brought me out."
Although Yaohua was weak and exhausted, she still angrily asked, "You're the Nine - Heavens Mysterious Demon. What's your relationship with him?"
The system said helplessly, "Only by killing the body of the mysterious demon can the ancient god be recognized by the Heavenly Dao and regain all his strength. His purpose is to make me be reborn as the body of the mysterious demon and then be killed."
He bowed to the two of them, "Please, just let me experience the feeling of having a body for a while longer!"
"Find someone else if you want a body." Yaohua said firmly, "Give me back my Yaoyao."
"With her current physical condition, even if she regains control of her body, she can only go into a deep sleep." The system said pitifully, "I can help you find the Primordial Pearl."