Chapter 84: Chapter 84: Turning the Tide

Anomalous fire is a transformation of a Fire Attribute Holy Spirit born of heaven and earth.

Its intelligence has been extracted by the transformed Fire Element Holy Spirit, leaving behind the Holy Spirit’s shed remains.

Immortal and indestructible, yet retaining a trace of instinct, it will burrow underground after the Holy Spirit takes form, drifting along with underground magma.

However, Li Jizhou at this moment saw that the milky white little flame seemed to have a spiritual intelligence of its own, brandishing at Gua Gua, even unleashing a sliver of milky white flame shooting towards Gua Gua.

This seriously contradicts the ancient texts he had read in his past life.

How could an Anomalous Fire possess spiritual intelligence?

“Gua~” During his contemplation, Gua Gua let out a miserable cry.

Li Jizhou hastily gathered his thoughts, only to see that the tiny flame emitted just a thread of fire that struck Gua Gua, burning a hole through the Tier One Late Stage Spirit Beast’s body.

And the hole was visibly widening.

The power of that sliver of flame was evident.

Fortunately, the little flame wasn’t too accurate and only hit Gua Gua’s paw.

“Get back!” Li Jizhou transmitted his voice sternly.

After three breaths, Gua Gua returned, with a hole the size of an egg in its paw, and the white flame was still spreading.

“What a domineering fire!” Li Jizhou inhaled sharply, taking out the Ice Soul Talisman and Fireproof Pill he had prepared a year ago specifically to subdue the Anomalous Fire.

The Ice Soul Talisman activated, instantly freezing Gua Gua’s paw; the milky white flame held on for three breaths and then extinguished dimly.

Afterward, he administered the Fireproof Pill and applied Jade Dew Ointment specially for fire wounds.

Only then did Gua Gua stop crying.

“Let’s go! Take me there,” Li Jizhou directly ordered.

Gua Gua, hearing this, looked aggrieved again, lifting its paw with the egg-sized hole.

“Ten portions of Illusory Spirit Powder!” Li Jizhou directly offered, which was a mind-affecting poison developed two years ago that creates hallucinations when inhaled by cultivators, Gua Gua’s favorite.

The Spirit Trapping Talisman has a time limit.

Although it’s still uncertain whether this milky white little flame is an Anomalous Fire, its power is already evident, and the items he prepared clearly have a restraining effect on it.

What is there to hesitate about?

The next moment, Gua Gua appeared in front of the white flame again, but from a greater distance.

And Li Jizhou hid behind it, observing the little flame up close.

“Puff~” Upon seeing Li Jizhou and Gua Gua’s appearance, the white flame shot out a strand of flame again.

This time, having learned from the previous experience, Gua Gua dodged quickly.

Li Jizhou held onto its leg all along, hiding behind it, naturally without fear.

However, at this moment, after the flame shot out from the flame, the already weak little flame became even more frail, seemingly unable to muster a second strike.

“Could this be a Fire Spirit?”

“And a Fire Spirit sapling that has just begun to develop intelligence?”

After observing closely and combining his knowledge from ancient texts in his past life, Li Jizhou’s heart surged with excitement.

Fire Spirits belong to the Spirit Race, existing among the top ranks of the myriad races on the Celestial Profound Continent, born of heaven and earth, once they take shape, with their innate might, they can rival Human Race Nascent Soul True Monarchs!

However, it’s said that the birthplaces of Fire Spirits are primarily concentrated within the million-mile territory of Flame Mountain in the Northern Western Desert. How could this white little fire spirit be born here?

With this question in mind, Li Jizhou focused all his Divine Sense around the Fire Spirit, examining inch by inch.

Resulting in no findings whatsoever.

Seeing that the time for the Spirit Trapping Talisman was almost up, Li Jizhou no longer hesitated, slapped an Ice Soul Talisman that instantly froze it, and then took out a jade bottle to contain the Fire Spirit.

This jade bottle was the one that the red-dressed woman from the Thunder Flame Sect’s mysterious secret realm covertly gave Gua Gua for holding Celestial Pure Water.

Li Jizhou had already emptied Gua Gua’s share into his own jade bottle.

And this jade bottle had been tested by Li Jizhou two years prior during his preparations for capturing the Anomalous Fire; it is impervious to fierce flames, unbreakable by steel, and upon initial insight into array formations, it was found to contain an extremely sophisticated array restriction inside.

“Puff puff puff~” Seeing the jade bottle approach, the white little flame desolately shot out threads of flame, and the entire flame became weaker, ultimately unable to resist, and was contained in the jade bottle.

After calming down and observing for a while, seeing that the jade bottle was unharmed and the flame did not stir, Li Jizhou carefully stowed it in his storage bag.

“Let’s go!”

Today was for this purpose, and now with such ample harvest beyond expectations, he was exceedingly satisfied.

He held no covetous thoughts toward the Wen family.

Instructing Gua Gua to travel ten li underground, one man and one frog then soared into the sky.

“Die! All of you should die!” Just as they flew into mid-air, three figures were already flying towards them from afar.

The two pursuers behind were cackling with sinister laughter.

Li Jizhou slightly frowned, just about to release his Flying Ship to escape but recognized the pursued cultivator at a glance.

“Big Bull!”

And one of the pursuers behind, Li Jizhou was not unfamiliar with; it was Zhao Qian!

Chasing Wu Daniu along with Zhao Qian was a cultivator in the Wen family’s direct attire, clearly a Wen family member.

“What’s happening?” Li Jizhou didn’t have time to think much, swiftly flying to a towering tree, merging his Eternal Spring Magical Power with the tree, concealing his aura.

“Zhao Qian, let me go, we were once friends!” Seeing his diminishing Magical Power and slowing escape speed, Wu Daniu ran as he pleaded desperately.

“We each serve our own master, don’t blame me!” Zhao Qian’s voice was cold, suddenly waving the magical artifact in his hand.

“Boom~” Wu Daniu fell from the high sky, landing just below the ancient tree where Li Jizhou was hiding.

“Zhao Qian, don’t kill me, I still have children, I swear I’ll never get involved in any conflicts again, I’ll take my wife and kids and leave right away.” Injured, Wu Daniu fell to the ground, hastily turning around, retreating as he pleaded.

“Hmph! When you came to attack my Wen family, why didn’t you think of today?” The Wen family cultivator beside Zhao Qian sneered.

“I had no other choice, caught in the clan, unable to act freely, I won’t do it again, please spare me!” At that moment, Wu Daniu’s mind was filled with images of his wife and children.

In the early stage just after coming out of Inverted Mountain, during the conflict between the Yang family and the Qian family, he honestly wasn’t this afraid of death.

He even thought that in the face of death, he might shout that he would still be a good man twenty years later.

Because back then, he had fewer attachments.

If he died, he died, it wouldn’t affect anyone else.

But now, he was genuinely afraid, he had too many attachments.

He didn’t know what would happen to his wife and children after he died.

“Haha, what a joke, from the moment you joined the Yang family, your fate was already tied to Yang’s.

If today our Wen family’s ancestor hadn’t played a trump card to reverse the situation, it’d be me who was dead.

But I would never complain!” The Wen family cultivator laughed disdainfully.

“Reversing the situation? This could be reversed?” Li Jizhou on the tree was very puzzled, feeling for a moment that he might have overlooked some information.

“Brother Zhao, you take him out, holding his head, you will be rewarded by the Wen family, I’ll let you have this credit.”

“Thank you, Brother Wen!” Zhao Qian immediately rejoiced.

“No, no, Zhao Qian, you can’t do this, you were initially on the same front as us, your Zhao family switched sides suddenly, and after the Wen family stabilizes the situation, they will still not let you off, kill him, and we can escape!” Seeing the Wen family cultivator’s firm resolve to kill, Wu Daniu no longer begged but instead turned to instigate Zhao Qian.

The Wen family cultivator heard this and indeed immediately distanced himself from Zhao Qian.

Seeing this, Zhao Qian’s face turned black: “Wu Daniu, I always thought you were honest, yet you dare to use a stratagem to sow discord between us and the Wen family.”

“Brother Wen, don’t listen to his nonsense, my father has long stated that the Wen family is our strongest backing!”

“Rest assured, am I that foolish? Brother Zhao, you also needn’t worry, our ancestor has already spoken, only punish the invaders today, and will not delve into old accounts after today.

Enough talking, finish him quickly, then go hunt down the remaining rebels!” The Wen family cultivator said impatiently.

“Yes!” Zhao Qian agreed aloud, raising his magical artifact, ready to strike.

“Thud~” However, the next moment, Zhao Qian directly collapsed headfirst to the ground.

Immediately, the Wen family cultivator and Wu Daniu also fell similarly to the ground.

“Whoosh whoosh~” Subsequently, two Blazing Talismans shot out from the tree, instantly turning Zhao Qian and the Wen family cultivator to ash, disappearing between heaven and earth in the blink of an eye, as if they had never appeared.

Gua Gua emerged from underground, swallowing the storage bags of the two, then used its tongue to wrap up the unconscious Wu Daniu and burrowed back into the ground, leaving no trace behind.

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