Chen Xiao, vanished?
Chen Xiao was stunned.
Did his body absorb it directly?
But he couldn't sense it at all, nor did anything related to cultivation appear in his mind.
The Great Desolation Mortal Scripture had disappeared without a trace.
"Husband, what's going on?"
Li Ziqing asked in surprise.
"I don't know either. Why did it suddenly disappear?"
Chen Xiao frowned and said.
"No, husband, I'm not talking about that just now, I'm talking about the ground!"
Li Ziqing's face turned pale, and she said tremblingly.
It was only then that Chen Xiao reacted.
The ground beneath their feet had inexplicably begun to shake.
It started as a slight tremor, but by the time Chen Xiao was lost in thought, the shaking had become much more pronounced.
It felt like an earthquake.
Not only the ground, but even the sky began to distort.
The rocks, trees, and everything else followed suit.
"Not good, this space is about to collapse!"
Chen Xiao realized, grabbed Li Ziqing, spread his wings, and flew towards the direction of the entrance.
It was clear that this space was on the verge of collapse.
Perhaps its purpose was to preserve the Great Desolation Mortal Scripture. Now that it had been taken, the entire space began to crumble.
However, when Chen Xiao reached the entrance with Li Ziqing, the entrance had not reappeared.
As the entire world collapsed before her eyes, Li Ziqing was initially a little scared.
But later, fear gradually turned into romance.
"If I can die in your arms like this, my life will not have been lived in vain,"
Li Ziqing suddenly said.
"That's absurd. How could I let you die in a place like this!"
Chen Xiao drew his God Slaying Sword and slashed at the sky, again and again.
Chen Xiao's gamble paid off. Under the crisscrossing sword energy, a gap was indeed torn in the collapsing sky.
However, after the gap appeared, it quickly began to heal.
The healing process, in turn, accelerated the collapse of the world.
Meteorites, from unknown origins, began to fall, leaving long trails as they streaked across the sky.
Chen Xiao charged towards the sky, continuing to slash with his sword to prevent the gap from completely closing.
As he flew, the intense heat of the meteorites seared Chen Xiao's body.
He was alright, but Li Ziqing began to wither at a visible rate.
Chen Xiao's heart tightened, and he unleashed a powerful force he had never possessed before.
Swish—
This immense power tore a massive hole in the sky.
Through this hole, they could even see the Fire Phoenix and the Nine Yin and Nine Yang brothers outside.
But Chen Xiao paused for a moment, because the power he had just unleashed felt incredibly strange!
That power didn't seem to come from his body, but from the heavens and the earth.
Yet, it had clearly erupted from within him.
The sensation was peculiar, even bizarre.
Moreover, the power was fleeting, and Chen Xiao could no longer feel it, nor could he replicate it.
Could it be... this was the effect of the Great Desolation Mortal Scripture?
A thought flashed through Chen Xiao's mind, but there was no time to ponder it as the sky began to heal again.
Holding Li Ziqing, he rapidly flew towards the large hole. Before it could completely seal, they finally escaped this world and returned to the front of the bronze gate.
Clang—
The moment they escaped, an extremely heavy thud echoed from within the bronze gate.
It sounded like an explosion, or like a mountain crashing into the sea.
After the muffled sound, the bronze gate slowly dissipated, as if it were melting, transforming into a black stone slab, as if scorched.
The Fire Phoenix and the Nine Yin and Nine Yang brothers stared blankly at Chen Xiao, their gazes filled with a hint of blame.
"Why are you looking at me like that?"
Chen Xiao asked irritably.
"Strange, I have a feeling that I don't need to guard here anymore."
Zhu Jiuyin scratched his head with his snake tail, looking very surprised.
"Me too, me too..."
Zhu Jiuyang immediately chimed in.
"Not needing to guard here... wouldn't that be a good thing? You'll be free from now on."
Chen Xiao coaxed him.
"Free?!"
The Nine Yin and Nine Yang brothers exchanged glances. They couldn't understand what freedom was, but they felt a strange yearning for it.
"Freedom is, from now on, you two brothers won't have to guard here anymore. You can go wherever you want!"
The Fire Phoenix chirped, explaining.
"Go wherever we want?"
"But we don't want to go anywhere!"
"I just want to coil up here!"
"Me too, me too..."
The brothers' dialogue earned them a roll of the eyes from the Fire Phoenix.
"You two are truly hopeless!"
"Never mind. Let's just leave here first. Brother, I'm leaving. Are you coming?"
Zhu Jiuyin asked.
Zhu Jiuyang thought for a moment and said, "Leave? Where can we go?"
"Who knows? The world is vast, where can't we go? Whether you come or not, I'm leaving anyway!"
With that, Zhu Jiuyin flapped his wings and flew away.
"Little brother, wait for me. How will you survive without your brother?"
Saying that, Zhu Jiuyang also flew away.
The Fire Phoenix sarcastically commented, "Hmph, it's clearly you who can't survive without him!"
The brothers quickly disappeared without a trace.
"What about you? Do you want to leave here?"
Chen Xiao asked the Fire Phoenix.
"Why should I leave? Although, I don't know why I'm staying here either."
The Fire Phoenix scratched her head.
As she spoke, her eyes suddenly lit up, and she looked at Chen Xiao. "Right, Master, I wasn't able to acknowledge you as my master last time because your power was too great. How about now? Do you have enough power to subdue me?"
What she said was perfectly reasonable, but for some reason, Li Ziqing felt a little strange hearing it.
"Uh, this, it should be fine now!"
Chen Xiao thought for a moment and said.
"Then let's try!"
Saying that, the Fire Phoenix bit her index finger and looked at Chen Xiao expectantly.
Chen Xiao also bit his index finger, squeezed out a drop of blood, and let it drip onto the Fire Phoenix's index finger.
"Buzz—"
This time, the blood drops were not repelled and began to fuse smoothly.
The blood drops between the two turned into bloodlines.
And the two... no, it should be one person and one bird, connected by this bloodline, forming a bond.
Soon, Chen Xiao felt a connection to the Fire Phoenix through their bloodlines.
The entire process took nearly thirty minutes, and Li Ziqing, standing beside them, was dumbfounded.
Where did these two get so much blood?
After a full half hour, the bloodline fusion was complete. The Fire Phoenix smiled shyly at Chen Xiao and said charmingly, "Master, from now on, I belong to you. You can ask me to do anything you want~~~"