After the main character who took the blame retired, the female lead quit.

Chapter 55, Hello, Open the Door, Delivery

As the white flames burned and the armored monster rose to its feet, Xiao Yu finally saw its true form.

Beneath the sturdy armor lay a skeleton engulfed in flames, devoid of any flesh or blood, like the white strings supporting a puppet.

The flames attached to the skeleton supported the armor. The power of the white flames was too domineering. Unlike other phoenix flames, the flesh and blood could not withstand it and were all turned into nourishment.

Even the demon race, known for their physical strength, found it difficult to withstand.

Historically, the only species to withstand the mutated phoenix fire of the white phoenix and become its companion was a human, the weakest race in ancient times.

It's not that humans can withstand the flames that other races can, but rather that only one person, a special person, could withstand it.

Unfortunately, not long after, the human race rose to prominence from humble beginnings, and all races fought each other. The human who had been favored took the opportunity to betray the Phoenix Clan and, with the help of a true dragon who had taken advantage of the situation, betrayed the Phoenix Clan.

Inside the ancient parasol tree, the female cultivator's appearance had changed drastically. Her hair was now completely white, but her hazy eyes remained unchanged. The ancient tree, like the outside, was covered in frost. The parasol tree, one of the ten ancient tree species of the demon race, did not show any of its own vibrant vitality.

Suddenly, she raised her head as if she had noticed something. Her gaze passed through the tree trunk, over the fighting Ulala and the flaming armor, and settled on Xiao Yu, who was watching the show from the sidelines.

Call ~

Outside the ancient tree, the swaying dandelion-like seedling barely managed to drift over, but by the time it reached the roots of the ancient tree, it had already lost all its strength.

Especially after being hit by the surrounding white mist, it slumped down, utterly exhausted.

A glance through the tree trunk at Xiao Yu's phoenix eyes revealed the little gadget.

A jade-like, smooth, and white hand reached out, and the next moment, the sapling that had been floating outside, still worrying about how to get into the ancient tree, flashed and landed in the female cultivator's hand.

Nightmare Tapir Seed...

It originated from the Dream of Nightmare, and fell from the body of that tapir.

Ah!

It seems that guy hasn't forgotten his promise to her...

The female cultivator's eyes flashed, she took out the seed and put it away. As for the seedling that brought the seed, she thought for a moment, then found a flowerpot filled with fertile soil inside the ancient tree and planted it.

call out!

A strong wind blew, and Ulala brandished his golden wheel, like Xing Tian wielding his axe and shield. Although he did not carry a shield, he used offense as defense, suppressing the flaming armor so that it could not rise.

The axe blade struck the surface of the armor, the sharp weapon scraping through the metal with a teeth-grinding sound.

It's worth mentioning that although the Flame Armor is surrounded by flames, it seems unable to control the use of white flames to create fireballs or perform ranged attacks like blinking, which is different from the Phoenix companions encountered on the road who were burned to mummies.

It seems to operate with white flames as its core power source. With white flames protecting it, many ranged spells will be burned away, and the cultivators' ranged attacks are suppressed. Only melee combat offers a sliver of hope.

Slow movement speed and lack of ranged attack spells were the weaknesses that Xiao Yu observed and exposed during her fight with Wulala.

That being the case...

He glanced at the flaming armor that was locked in fierce combat with Ulala, then looked at the fog gate shrouded in white mist.

A mirage!

A translucent flying sword shot out, casting a thin layer of moonlight veil over him. Amidst the ever-gathering and dispersing white mist, Xiao Yu's figure quietly disappeared.

Peng!

The Fiery Armor continued its fierce battle with Ulala, its golden iron axe blade clashing repeatedly with the long, orange-yellow halberd wreathed in flames. The once-glossy surface was now covered with large and small chips and damage, as if the paint had been chipped off.

The flames were gradually consuming the giant axe in her hand. Compared to flammable flesh and blood, magical weapons and other magical artifacts took a little longer to catch fire.

What is burned by the white flames is the soul of the living beings. Although weapons and magical artifacts do not have souls like humans, if they are burned, they will lose their spirituality. Once the spirituality is damaged, they will become a lump of scrap metal.

In a sense, the White Flame Phoenix Fire and the Weak Water of the Chaotic Forbidden Sea, which is rich in exotic Dao traces, can be considered forbidden items of the same rank.

While the two were locked in a fierce battle, Xiao Yu quietly circled around and arrived at the barrier formed by the white mist at the base of the tree.

This is a good opportunity. The white flames that ordinary cultivators find extremely troublesome may be useless to Xiao Yu, and their power may even be less than that of ordinary flames.

However, fighting... it's best to avoid it if possible. Since someone is carrying the burden for him, Xiao Yu can save himself some trouble. He's done things like skipping class and fighting bosses by exploiting bugs before.

The most urgent task is to figure out what this towering, frozen ancient tree is all about, and what this feeling of familiarity is all about.

Xiao Yu reached out and placed his hand on the fog gate.

A solid, tactile sensation came through, as if I were touching an extremely hard wall.

Xiao Yu pressed his hands on it and pushed it inwards, but it didn't budge.

really……

Will the fog only dissipate after defeating that flaming armored monster?

Xiao Yu stroked his chin, staring at the fog door in front of him, and then, as if possessed, knocked on it:

"Hello! Is anyone there? Open the door, it's a delivery..."

The foggate was calm.

No reaction at all.

Xiao Yu belatedly shrugged, realizing what was happening. "Yeah, how could there be any backlash..."

Suddenly, ripples appeared on the originally smooth, mirror-like surface of the white barrier. As the white mist gathered, a ferocious-looking dragon head emerged.

Dragon's eyes narrowed, and with his lantern-sized pupils wide open, he looked at Xiao Yu, who stood before the fog gate, with a puzzled expression.

Eh?

Eh!!!

Xiao Yu's lips twitched, and for a moment the dragon and the human stared at each other, wide-eyed.

"Damn it..." he cursed under his breath, adhering to the principle of striking first and suffering the consequences, and immediately slapped it across the face.

"Ah! Sorry, you've got the wrong door... You should go back inside."

Snapped!

After a clear sound, the lantern-sized dragon eye went from being dumbfounded to being furious.

Meanwhile, the monster that had been delayed by Ulala on the other side seemed to have sensed something, and flames roared beneath its empty armor.

A sharp shriek rang out.

"Well……"

Ulala, who was the first to be hit, froze, and two streams of blood flowed from his ears, but his hands did not hesitate at all. He swung his axe down directly, the blade cleaving down in his face.

Peng!

The bulging helmet instantly dented, and the mournful roar ceased.

The armored body was severely damaged by the burning flames.

Even though his voice and throat were burned away, he could still make a sound.

and many more!

wrong!

Ulala's beastly eyes narrowed, and her astonishing combat instincts alerted her to something amiss.

At this moment, the armored figure stood up and grasped the hilt of the square sword at his waist.

The sword draws its edge.

Instantly, Ulala's hair stood on end, every part of her body frantically reminding her of the terror of the attack to come.

The sword light exploded, clearing away the thin mist.

The dispersing white mist gathered, and a slender beast with a dragon's head and a scorpion's tail emerged from the mist gate. The shriek just now came from its mouth.

There is a beast that resembles a deer but is not a roe deer, with the body of a horse and the head of a dragon. Its cry is sharp and piercing. When it appears, a great fog descends. It can roam among the clouds and fog, breaking through the barriers to bring clarity.

Only then did Xiao Yu fully realize what was happening.

If we compare a secret realm to a game, then the flaming armor guarding the ancient tree is undoubtedly an elite-level boss.

It's not that the Flaming Armor is too weak; Ulala is a ruthless person who can even hold her own against Long Wanyan for a while.

The key point is that it would be wishful thinking to think that this flaming armor alone could guard the road to the ancient tree.

Even if the flames surrounding her body are something that people can't avoid, it's still the same.

If, like before, Ulala led the way to restrain the humanoid armor, and another team was sent to approach the blocked fog gate and try to break it down from the inside out, wouldn't that...

However, it turns out that such an obvious loophole was clearly a trap that had been set up in advance.

Zizzi~

A ball of flame condensed in the beast's mouth, and the intense heat caused a significant portion of the iceberg piled up by the ancient trees beside it to melt away.

This thick fog wasn't caused by the flaming armor; besides the flaming armor, there was also a monster burning with flames!

Peng!

Flaming breath erupted from his mouth, completely engulfing Xiao Yu's slender figure in the flames.

Chapter 56, Don't Stab the Gun, We're on the Same Side

puff!

The sword flashed, blood spurted out, and Ulala tilted her head slightly, warm blood flowing down her face. Out of the corner of her eye, she saw half of her furry left ear fall down along with the blood.

My ears...

While Ulala was furious, she also felt a sense of relief. The sword light that arrived in the blink of an eye was clearly aimed at her head. If she hadn't been quick to react and tilted her head to the side, it wouldn't have been just her ear that was severed.

She gritted her teeth and endured the pain, tumbling over in mid-air, and reached out to grasp the severed half of the beast's ear in her hand.

The sword was sheathed, and the armored warrior once again brandished the halberd.

It seems that there are certain restrictions on the use of the sword at the waist, and it cannot be drawn at will.

Besides the white flames burning on his body, the sword that could arrive at his waist in the blink of an eye also needs to be guarded against.

Ulala thought to herself, but what she really wanted to know was what was going on at the Fog Gate!

Another monster has appeared!