Chapter 421: Terrestrial Fox Black Flame

Lu Wuchen even sent a voice transmission while flying. "Young Master Xiao, how are you planning to act?"

"My spiritual flame has a special effect against filthy things, so I want to see whether it works against this demonic aura." After saying this, Xiao Shou flew a little higher.

He focused his mind and sensed the Terrestrial Fox Black Flame in his Nascent Soul dantian, which was already giving off an intense desire to feed.

He felt as though he had suddenly thought of something that was wrong, but he could not figure out exactly where the abnormality was.

He could only move his thoughts and release the Terrestrial Fox Black Flame first.

The demonic aura was surging fiercely. This time, he could not release only a tiny flame.

Thinking this, Xiao Shou simply released half of the pure essence of the Terrestrial Fox Black Flame and condensed it in his hand.

The instant the Terrestrial Fox Black Flame left his body, a fist sized, pitch black flame jumped several times above Xiao Shou’s palm.

Then it suddenly spread along Xiao Shou’s protective spiritual light.

In one breath, it devoured all the demonic aura around him.

It immediately followed its instinctive and ignorant desire to feed and swept toward the surrounding demonic aura.

The Terrestrial Fox Black Flame, which had only been the size of a palm, suddenly expanded into a thin but enormous web of flames and spread along the defensive barrier surrounding the city, wrapping around a vast expanse of demonic aura.

High in the sky, Tushan Qing had just finished reading one jade slip and was about to sense the contents of the second when his hand suddenly trembled.

The blood throughout his entire body seemed to boil, radiating intense heat. His heart began beating violently, his vision split into overlapping images, his ears became itchy and painful, and even his tailbone began to itch and ache.

This sensation...

It seemed very similar to the feeling he experienced whenever he burned his blood essence and transformed into his Terrestrial Fox Divine Body.

It wasn’t the night of the full moon, and he had not entered a weakened period either.

Why would he suddenly have such a reaction?

Just as Tushan Qing was thinking this, the images sensed through the divine sense he had left behind to protect Xiao Shou suddenly reached him.

He cried out in shock.

"Terrestrial Fox Black Flame! It really is Terrestrial Fox Black Flame? The clan leader never told me about this!"

"The Terrestrial Fox inheritor having such a strong reaction when coming into close contact with the Terrestrial Fox Black Flame isn’t mentioned in the inheritance either... Since the situation is unclear, I’ll keep my distance for now and observe."

Tushan Qing immediately thought of how to respond. As he spoke, he flew higher and farther away, stopping only after the sensation of his blood boiling had cooled.

However, he did not withdraw his divine sense from Xiao Shou.

At the same time, among the people who had flown over, Venerable Jian Li froze when he saw the Terrestrial Fox Black Flame appear.

His expression became somewhat dazed as he thought, That flame’s color and aura are exactly the same as those of my lifesaving benefactor on Yingzhou Celestial Isle.

Later, he had learned that this flame had been released by a powerful expert to rescue everyone from the Seven Deadly Sins calamity. It seemed to possess another kind of power as well, causing many people on Yingzhou Celestial Isle to be burned to ashes, including the Yingzhou Heavenly Emperor who had secretly attacked him.

Island Master Ying, Li Peiyi, and the others had all searched for that powerful expert, but no one had found any trace of him.

Ever since leaving Yingzhou Celestial Isle, he had constantly wondered who that mysterious person was who had saved everyone without leaving his name behind.

He had thought through every famous senior expert he knew, but he had never imagined that it would actually be this extremely mysterious Sect Master Xiao.

After finally realizing the identity of his lifesaving benefactor, Venerable Jian Li looked dazed and kept staring at Xiao Shou without blinking.

What he did not know was that not far from him, Xiao Ran happened to notice his gaze.

She froze for a moment, then felt a mixture of anger and resentment.

The man she had originally intended to distance herself from and cut ties with did not care at all about her rejection. Instead, he was staring at someone she hated most, the one everyone admired and praised, and who also had the support of powerful experts from the Upper Realm.

That gaze...

She had stayed by his side for so long, yet she had never seen an expression from him other than his cold face.

Not even during their closest moments.

Xiao Ran had even wondered what kind of event or what kind of person could make him show emotion.

She had originally thought that having his foundation damaged and losing hope in the Great Dao would make him less aloof, perhaps even turn him into a depressed and defeated person.

Yet after meeting him again this time, Jian Li had not become the person she had imagined.

She had never expected that the reason for the expression on his face was actually Xiao Shou, that damned man.

Hateful.

So hateful...

Xiao Ran felt as though she were about to go mad.

"Calm your mind and spirit. Restrain your inner demons."

At this moment, Ting Lu’s eight cold words entered the mind of Xiao Ran, who was suffering intense pain throughout her body from circulating her spiritual energy.

Seeing Venerable Jian Li’s expression under such circumstances, she had nearly suffered Qi Deviation.

Ting Lu’s words made her whole body tremble in fright.

Thinking back on what had just happened, she realized that she had almost fallen into demonic cultivation because of a man she had already decided to abandon.

Seeing that she had regained control of herself, Ting Lu once again fell silent.

His behavior made even the naturally cold hearted Xiao Ran sincerely say, "Ting Lu, thank you."