Chapter 624: The Remains Move

Xiao Ling stared at the corpse of the ninth-rank Heavenly Demon Phoenix, his eyes moving over its huge and silent outline.

At this moment, he seemed to be vaguely aware that the remains that had been silent for who knows how many years seemed to be aware of the intrusion of him, the uninvited guest.

The corpse, which had completely lost its life force and was as solid as ten thousand years of ice, suddenly seemed to come alive and showed an indescribable, imperceptible reaction.

Although Xiao Ling was unable to clearly capture any specific abnormalities, and his keen perception was unable to interpret any exact information, an intuition, a very strange feeling, made him clearly "see", or "feel" that this huge corpse did move slightly.

Xiao Ling has always been extremely confident in his perception, which comes from countless life-and-death experiences. Therefore, when he felt the slightest strange feeling just now, he almost instantly ruled out the possibility that he was sensing it wrong.

His mind raced, and he was certain that the corpse of the Sky Demon Phoenix must have had some kind of indescribable reaction. What frightened him the most was that his intuition told him that this reaction was probably caused by his intrusion!
Almost as an instinctive reaction, Xiao Ling's body suddenly shook, and he lightly jumped back, creating some distance between him and the huge corpse. At the same time, he soared into the air from the heart-pounding blood pool below, and stood firmly in the air.

At this moment, his eyes had become sharp and vigilant, fixed firmly on the corpse of the Sky Demon Phoenix, as if he wanted to re-examine the outline that had been silent for endless years.

On the Douqi Continent, life and death are not uncommon, but "complete destruction" is not an absolute outcome.

As long as the strength reaches a certain level, even if the body is damaged, the soul or some kind of power imprint may not completely dissipate.

The example of Venerable Skyfire flashed through Xiao Ling's mind. That senior had been dormant in the magma world beneath the Canaan Academy in the form of a soul for countless years. He was eventually found and rescued by Xiao Ling, and was able to refine a body again. Now he was serving as an elder in the Xingyun Pavilion, living a carefree and happy life.

The corpse of the Sky Demon Phoenix in front of him was a genuine ninth-rank expert when he was alive! Even if such an existence was truly "dead", Xiao Ling would never believe that its power or some trace of existence would completely disappear from this world.

He vaguely felt that this seemingly completely dead corpse might still be hiding some means left behind by its owner during his lifetime.

As soon as this thought flashed through Xiao Ling's mind, the next moment, his eyes were suddenly fixed on the corpse of the Heavenly Demon Phoenix.

The huge body that was originally frozen like ten thousand years of ice suddenly trembled violently without any warning! It was not the imperceptible tremor before, but a real "movement".

It was like a volcano that had been dormant for thousands of years suddenly awakening. At the same time, an indescribable amount of energy, like a prehistoric beast that had broken free from its shackles, erupted from the corpse!
This energy did not dissipate, but turned into an extremely condensed white beam of light, spreading straight into the vast blood pool below that seemed to have no end in sight.

"Om-"

A low and distant humming sound did not come from the ears, but vibrated directly in the depths of Xiao Ling's soul.

Immediately afterwards, the surface of the blood pool was no longer dead silent, but instead began to show circles of huge ripples visible to the naked eye.

The ripples were not ordinary water waves, but were composed of pure energy, like transparent rings, with an ancient and wild rhythm, starting from the center point, spreading in all directions at an almost constant speed at an extremely fast speed.

They cut through the viscosity of the blood pool, and wherever they passed, the color of the blood pool seemed to fluctuate, emitting layers of strange, dim light.

Circle after circle, layer upon layer, as if there is no end, as if it wants to explore every corner and every inch of skin in this bloody abyss, until it touches the final edge of the unknown, and then stop.

This scene is both spectacular and yet also exudes a sense of strangeness that makes one's heart palpitate.

Faced with this bizarre and unpredictable scene, Xiao Ling's heart sank suddenly. For a moment, he was completely confused.

Why did this body of the Sky Demon Phoenix, which was as solid as an eternal rock just now, suddenly burst into such energy fluctuations? What did the ripples in the blood pool mean?
A myriad of thoughts suddenly came to his mind, but he had no time to think about it. At this moment, the only thing he could do was to hold his breath and wait and see what would happen.

However, beneath his seemingly calm appearance, his whole body was already as tense as a fully drawn bowstring. Every nerve in his body was highly excited, and all his senses were directed towards the corpse and the surging pool of blood.

The slightest movement is enough for him to react instantly. Whether it is escaping or fighting, he is ready to deal with any danger.

Just as the energy ripples emanating from the corpse of the Heavenly Demon Phoenix were still slowly rippling in the blood pool, spreading outward in circles like transparent rings, Xiao Ling's expression suddenly froze.

He keenly noticed that at the edge of the vast pool of blood, some invisible force field seemed to be gathering.

Then, a new ripple, like a reverse mirror image of the previous ones, quietly appeared in his sight.

But the direction of this ripple is completely opposite!

It did not spread out from the center, but rather, from all directions of the blood pool, like a receding tide, slowly shrinking and converging towards the location of the Sky Demon Phoenix's corpse.

Circle after circle, with a strange suction force, as if trying to draw all the energy of the blood pool back into the body of the Sky Demon Phoenix.

Xiao Ling's guess was ruthlessly confirmed almost the next moment.

The moment the energy ripples that were contracting back from all directions touched the corpse of the Heavenly Demon Phoenix, Xiao Ling clearly felt that the endless pool of blood below suddenly came alive!

The originally relatively calm surface of the pool suddenly boiled, like a deep pool into which a huge rock was thrown, causing huge waves, or like a dormant furnace was reignited, churning with sticky and hot energy.

Under Xiao Ling's gaze, streams of dense, insoluble red energy, like boiling magma, rolled and spread out from the depths of the blood pool, rushing towards the location of the corpse of the Heavenly Demon Phoenix.

The remains of the Sky Demon Phoenix, which should have been dead, now seemed to have turned into a bottomless pit, accepting all the energy that came towards it and greedily swallowing and absorbing it all into its body.

As more and more red energy was injected, a long-lost aura, majestic and fierce, like an ancient beast awakening, slowly spread from the corpse.

Moreover, as the energy injection intensified, this aura not only did not dissipate, but became stronger and more violent, surging and surging throughout this space.

Seeing this, Xiao Ling raised his eyebrows slightly, and his heart was alarmed. It seemed that the situation would not be too peaceful.

He no longer hesitated, and with a wave of his hand, a gorgeous fire lotus burned and rose in his palm. The next moment, Xiao Ling shook his wrist lightly, and the fire lotus shot straight at the corpse of the Sky Demon Phoenix at an extremely fast speed, carrying a blazing aura.

Of course, this Buddha's Fury Lotus was just an attack that Xiao Ling temporarily condensed by mobilizing the strange fire. Its power was not from his full strength, but a test to find out the true condition of the corpse at this moment.

Under Xiao Ling's close gaze, the burning fire lotus was getting closer and closer, and was about to touch the corpse of the Heavenly Demon Phoenix.

Xiao Ling's eyes were fixed on the corpse like nails, his heart filled with curiosity and vigilance. He didn't think that the remains of the Sky Demon Phoenix would be like a wooden stake, allowing his attacks to fall on it.

Sure enough, his guess was correct. Just as the fire lotus was about to arrive, the body that had been as still as a rock suddenly moved!
The head that was originally held high and proudly turned slowly with a kind of stiffness after death. The huge eyes that had been closed all this time suddenly opened without any warning! A scarlet light flashed, and it stared at the direction where the fire lotus came from.

The next moment, the sharp hook-like beak suddenly opened, like a greedy whirlpool, and swallowed the high-speed fire lotus directly into its stomach!

What shocked Xiao Ling even more was that the fire lotus did not cause a violent explosion inside the corpse the moment it was swallowed as expected. Instead, it seemed as if it was thrown into a bottomless pit. It did not even cause a ripple and disappeared completely, as if it had not even reacted at all.

After devouring the fire lotus, the corpse of the Sky Demon Phoenix began to move again.

The huge body that was originally lying on the pool of blood began to slowly support itself in a stiff but unquestionable posture and stood up completely.

As it stood completely still, its extremely huge body was finally revealed to Xiao Ling without reservation. The body alone had an outline like a mountain.

Immediately afterwards, as its proud head was raised again, a long and desolate cry suddenly burst out from its mouth!
At the same time, its huge pair of wings, which had long dried up but now seemed to have regained a hint of dead luster, suddenly spread out with a "swish"!

The scene was so vast that it blocked out the sun and the sky. The mere breeze brought by the flapping wings caused huge ripples in the surrounding blood pool. A suffocating feeling of oppression instantly enveloped the entire area.

Xiao Ling looked at the actions of the Sky Demon Phoenix corpse at this moment, and understood clearly in his heart, and thought to himself: "It seems that I am really going to face some troubles next."

He immediately released the vast mental power within the Niwan Palace and carefully explored the current condition of the corpse.

In his perception, the inside of the corpse was indeed filled with extremely powerful energy at this moment, but strangely, there was no breath of life in it.

"Is it just a phenomenon of energy aggregation?" Xiao Ling frowned and thought, "No..."

He concentrated again, carefully sensing, and finally detected a very weak thought that was almost completely covered by the majestic energy. This thought was extremely vague, like an old mirror covered with dust, but it was undoubtedly something at the soul level.

"It seems that it is the residual soul of the demon phoenix that day that inverted the corpse and is now moving..." Xiao Ling made a judgment in his mind, "However, because it has been dormant for too long, this residual soul seems to have become unclear, and it needs a specific method to activate it."

Obviously, absorbing energy from the blood pool just now is the key to activating this remnant soul.

The reason why this corpse moved, made sounds, and spread its wings to cover the sky was not because it "came back to life" on its own, but because the sleeping soul began to wake up after absorbing enough energy.

Thinking of this, Xiao Ling became even more alert.

This situation reminded Xiao Ling of the scene when he faced the skeleton of the Fighting Saint in the Fighting Saint ruins. It was really the same situation.

However, judging from the scale alone, the energy absorbed by the remains of the Sky Demon Phoenix is ​​obviously much better than the condition of the Fighting Saint's skeleton at that time.

It can be predicted that once it truly revives, it will be more difficult to deal with than the Fighting Saint's skeleton. When they fight, it will probably be an extremely difficult opponent.

Just as Xiao Ling's mind was racing and analyzing the situation before him, the corpse of the Sky Demon Phoenix reacted again.

The head that was originally held high drooped slightly, and the scarlet eyes were fixed on the direction where Xiao Ling was.

At the same time, a voice that was difficult to distinguish between male and female came out from the sharp beak of the corpse like a rusty gear.

The voice was inhumanly stiff and hoarse, like an ancient musical instrument that had not been used for a long time, and it sounded intermittently: "You are not one of my people... You trespassed into my burial place... Damn it..."

Before he finished his words, the corpse suddenly opened its mouth, not uttering any words, but a thick black flame!

The black flame was like a living thing, carrying with it a biting chill and an astonishing sense of oppression. It turned into a dark torrent and surged straight towards Xiao Ling!
In an instant, the black smoke did not dissipate, but instead rapidly condensed and expanded. In the blink of an eye, it turned into an overwhelming torrent of black flames, with the momentum to destroy everything, and suddenly rushed towards Xiao Ling's position!
Xiao Ling only felt an indescribable terrifying high temperature instantly enveloping him, as if even the air was ignited, and his skin felt an illusion of burning pain.

This black flame is the unique talent of the Sky Demon Phoenix clan. This is not the first time Xiao Ling has seen it. He had also seen Feng Qing'er use it before.

But at this moment, there was a huge storm in his heart!

The black flame unleashed by Feng Qing'er was certainly powerful, but compared to the black flame spewed out by the remains of the Sky Demon Phoenix in front of her, it was like a firefly to the bright moon, there was truly a world of difference!

The terrifying energy contained in this black flame almost made Xiao Ling feel a little threatened. The power of this attack was in no way inferior to the full-strength attack of some ordinary semi-saints.

Facing such a terrifying attack, Xiao Ling did not dare to be arrogant. He immediately stretched out his hands, and the mighty fighting spirit in his body surged out like a flood, quickly condensing around him.

In an instant, blazing fire lotuses blossomed in front of him, illuminating Xiao Ling like an emperor of fire, sacred and majestic.

At the same time, the space behind him fluctuated, and circles of flaming light wheels floated up and rotated quietly.

Then, Xiao Ling's mind moved, and the gorgeous fire lotuses around him suddenly exploded, turning into a raging sea of ​​fire, as if they came alive, spreading violently from his body, and instantly collided violently with the oncoming wave of black flames!
Two completely different terrifying energies collided violently at this moment! (End of this chapter)