Embers of Sword

Chapter 6 Big Demon
After sunrise, the sunlight is like a tide and mist is rising between the mountains, making it look like a fairyland.

Xie Xuanyi used the paper umbrella as a crutch and stepped deep and shallow in the mud.

The highest mountain in the northern part of Yuzhu Town is named "Jinli", an ancient volcano. Because it is located in the extreme north, it is covered with snow all year round. This is where Taoist Chongwu was looking at before he died.

"Soul calling flag, soul locking flag..."

Xie Xuanyi discovered many Yinshan refining items along the way. They were of low quality and looked terrible. It was obvious that they were made by Chong Wu.

The art of controlling spirits sounds very overbearing, but the conditions for its implementation are extremely harsh.

If you want to control living beings and use them for your own benefit, you need to sign a soul contract between both parties' purple palace souls!
In most cases, he controls his subordinates from above, so the several transformed demon spirits under Chong Wu's command are not as powerful as himself.

If you want to control the superior from the inferior, to do things against the will of others, you need the blessing of the right time and place, the assistance of natural talents and treasures, as well as great luck, to have even a tiny possibility.

These objects are all used to assist in controlling spirits.

However, when Xie Xuanyi found it, it was already in pieces.

Xie Xuanyi squatted down and pulled out a broken small flag from the snow. He squinted his eyes and looked at it carefully. There were more than a dozen holes burned on the small flag... He held it in his hand for a few breaths, and he could feel a burning heat in his palm!

"This Jinli Mountain... is there really a monster living there?"

Xie Xuanyi threw away the small flag and looked towards the top of the mountain with a frown.

He took a small breath.

A strange feeling arises from the bottom of my heart.

After sleeping for ten years, his life seemed to be frozen. The seasons changed in the outside world, but his world was frozen. Now he finally saw the light of day again, but his mind... was suddenly blank. Many things from the past came flooding in like the tide, and receded like the tide in a moment.

He always felt that the hot breath emanating from this tattered little flag was very familiar.

Is it an old friend?

A moment later, Xie Xuanyi reached the top of the mountain. The snow had melted away, and this ancient volcano, which had been silent for a thousand years, seemed to be showing signs of revival. Steam was gushing out from the top of the cone. Looking down, one could vaguely see patches of scarlet in the boiling white air.

"Monster! Big monster!"

Xie Xuanyi stared at the bottom of the volcano for a long time, and finally uttered these words with a serious expression.

The one at the bottom of the mountain must be an unparalleled monster!
Every ray of the rising glow here is mixed with evil spirit!

The essence of this demonic energy is so rich that it is rare—

Xie Xuanyi stood on the top of the mountain. After just a few breaths, he felt his breath was burning, as if his lungs were on fire!
If an ordinary person were to climb up this mountain, he would probably be ignited in a moment!

However, judging by the demonic energy currently emanating from Jinli Mountain, the great demon living at the bottom of the mountain must be in an extremely weak state...

This is the reason why Taoist Chongwu has been lingering in Yuzhu Town and is reluctant to leave.

It was truly a once-in-a-lifetime adventure for him!
Xie Xuanyi looked around and saw traces of broken formations and burnt red blood everywhere. It was obvious that Taoist Chongwu had been trying to use the "Spirit Control Technique" to enslave the great monster at the bottom of the volcano during this period of time!
But all these attempts ended in failure!

"boom!"

A dull sound of a parachute opening was heard at the top of Jinli Mountain.

Xie Xuanyi silently took two steps forward, and then jumped down.

Xie Xuanyi knew that this was actually a very stupid behavior.

Now that his strength was only one tenth of what it was, it took a lot of effort to kill Taoist Chongwu. Since it had been confirmed that there was a formidable monster at the bottom of the Jinli volcano, the most urgent thing was to stay away from it.

but……

For no reason, an idea came to Xie Xuanyi's mind.

[“Let’s go down and take a look.”] What a true sword cultivator practices is not actually a sword.

That was exactly the thought.

Xie Xuanyi believed that his "intuition" would not deceive him... From the moment he stepped onto Jinli Mountain, he felt a familiar breath. Now he wanted to see if there was an "old friend" he knew living at the bottom of the volcano.

Rumble!
A rolling wave of air came towards him, and with a hissing sound, the oil-paper umbrella caught fire in the air. When Xie Xuanyi fell to the ground, only a lonely skeleton of the umbrella was left.

The ashes left the bottom of the mountain, and the sky was filled with floating ashes. The evil spirit was surging and the fire was flying.

Thousands and nearly ten thousand strands of blazing red flames were flying in the air, like a whisk, splashing out countless strands of light.

Xie Xuanyi stretched out his hand and touched the gorgeous red light from a distance...

These ashes.

As if breathing.

The demonic energy emanating from this place was a hundred times or a thousand times more dense than that on the top of the mountain, but Xie Xuanyi could not sense the slightest hint of danger...

The great demons who have truly achieved enlightenment usually restrain their aura and appear in human form.

Only when one loses consciousness and cannot control oneself will a large amount of demonic energy be emitted.

"Is it really... an old acquaintance?"

Xie Xuanyi casually plucked a ray of fiery red light that passed across his cheek. Under the nourishment of the demonic energy, the ray of light did not dissipate, but gradually solidified and turned into a feather.

Xie Xuanyi walked forward.

He saw clearly the "Dharma image" formed by countless streams of light.

These numerous threads of evil spirit lingered at the bottom of Jinli Mountain, lingering for a long time.

If someone stepped into the bottom of the mountain and looked closely, they would find that these tens of thousands of rays of light were made up of an incomparably huge "Phoenix" statue!
"This is...Phoenix?"

Xie Xuanyi was stunned for a moment.

His first reaction when he saw this image was why he had such a feeling of “familiarity” with the Phoenix?
Humans and demons cannot coexist.

He is a sword genius that only appears once in a hundred years in the Dashui Sword Palace. He kills monsters and eliminates demons when he encounters them. How could he be related to the phoenix?
The next moment, the sea of ​​consciousness seemed to be torn apart.

"Well……"

A painful groan burst out from Xie Xuanyi's throat.

He subconsciously put his hand on his forehead and staggered towards the center of the huge Dharma image.

The sky was filled with flowing light, as bright as blood, swirling around the white clothes.

Unexpectedly, Xie Xuanyi had no obstacles along the way and easily walked to the "center of heaven and earth" covered by the Dharma image. It turned out that the magnificent phoenix Dharma image above his head was just an illusion. The light in the sky had long lost its lethality and only looked terrifying... This was the reason why Chongwu Taoist dared to stay here despite his low realm. The owner of this Dharma image had fallen into a deep sleep.

Hundreds of flames built a tall throne at the bottom of Jinli Mountain, and each wisp of fire emitted a dark black color.

This Phoenix Fire Throne is far more majestic than the Dharma image above its head.

Unfortunately.

Sleeping soundly on the throne was a little red-haired girl who looked only eight or nine years old.

The little girl was wearing a tattered dress made of unknown material. She bathed in the Phoenix Fire without burning. Because she was too small, the majestic and tall throne seemed like a cradle. The little girl curled up and slept on the throne with the fire as a blanket. She looked like she was sleeping very sweetly.

(End of this chapter)