Chapter 1290: Black Phoenix Clan

Seeing this scene, the two demonic birds did not rush down to pursue, but hovered uncertainly above the forest, emitting strange cries.

As a result, a moment later, a faint red light shot over from the horizon. In the blink of an eye, it arrived near the two demonic birds, and then the light dispersed, revealing a palace-dressed young woman in her twenties, with phoenix eyes and willow brows, a hint of murderous aura faintly hidden between her brows.

"What, he finally exhausted his spirit stones and could no longer use his spirit tools? You two are truly useless. To deal with a mere body refiner, it took you such a long time. If it weren't for the fact that I must suppress my spiritual power fluctuations and cannot personally take action to capture him, how could he have hidden until now." The palace-dressed young woman swept her cold gaze downward and looked at the two demonic birds with displeasure.

These two fierce leopard-bird beasts actually revealed a look of fear under the woman's gaze, shrinking their wings and trembling.

"Hmph, how can the bloodline of our clan be left in the hands of the human race? Regardless of the cost, I must bring that little girl back. Capturing this City Lord Zhao will allow me to know her whereabouts. It won't have been in vain that I infiltrated the human race this time." The young woman looked toward the area below again, but she had no intention of taking action, and a strange expression appeared on her face.

Just then, a loud noise came from not far away in the forest below, followed by hissing sounds, and the sound of fist wind continued one after another, as if someone was fighting there.

The palace-dressed young woman and the two demonic birds hovered in the air, remaining perfectly still.

After a while, three black auras and one yellow aura suddenly rose from the forest and flew directly toward them.

They were precisely the other three snake demons and a giant sand-worm beast about four or five feet in size.

And the human-headed, snake-bodied snake demon was holding a half-dead human, who was precisely the purple-robed man who had fled downward not long ago.

Only now, he was covered in blood, one arm was missing, and he looked completely devoid of any ability to resist.

The four demons arrived in front of the palace-dressed young woman, immediately placed the purple-robed man respectfully in front of her, and then crawled onto the demonic aura, not daring to say a single word.

"You did well this time; there will be rewards later." The young woman looked at the purple-robed man, and seeing that he was not dead, nodded with satisfaction.

The snake demons and the giant sand-worm beast let out low, whimpering cries, appearing exceptionally happy.

"Impossible, you are an eighth-level shapeshifting demonic beast; how did you enter our Tianyuan Realm." The purple-robed man seemed to have regained some consciousness, and upon seeing the palace-dressed beauty, he was extremely shocked.

"Eighth-level demonic beast? Let's just say so. However, now it is I who am asking you, not you asking me. And I have no nonsense to say to a mere mortal. Listen well, I want to know the whereabouts of a person. If you tell me, I can let you die painlessly. If you make me unhappy, I will extract your soul and use soul-searching techniques to find out anyway. But as for what your end will be, there is no need to say more." The palace-dressed young woman's demeanor was elegant, but the content of her words was extremely cold.

The purple-robed man's already unsightly face became even uglier.

"Senior is a big figure of the demonic race; are you looking for a person by asking a small body-refining mortal like me? Did Senior misunderstand something and find the wrong person?"

Upon hearing this, a cold glint appeared in the palace-dressed young woman's phoenix eyes. She flicked a fair finger, and with a "pfft" sound, a red ray the thickness of a thumb pierced through the man's shoulder.

The man let out a scream, a burnt smell spread, and a small, blackened hole appeared on his shoulder.

"I seem to have said that it is I who am asking the questions; who told you to ask?" The woman said expressionlessly.

"Zhao knows. Senior, please ask." The purple-robed man took a long time to recover from the intense pain and no longer dared to speak recklessly.

"It's very simple; I want to know the whereabouts of a young girl named 'Daier'. Don't tell me you don't know; she is your only granddaughter, right?" The palace-dressed young woman looked at the purple-robed man and said indifferently.

"Daier! You are from the Black Phoenix Clan." The purple-robed man's heart was greatly shocked, and he blurted out.

"You guessed right. It seems you knew early on that the little girl possessed our Phoenix Clan bloodline. If it weren't for you shrinking in the city day after day with your granddaughter, would I have needed to let several beast hordes join forces to attack your Anyuan City? Now the city is breached, but I haven't found your granddaughter, so naturally, I can only ask you for her." The palace-dressed young woman sneered, not taking action to punish the purple-robed man again.

"I knew it early on; with the Black Phoenix Demon King's immense supernatural powers, how could this be hidden." The purple-robed man looked lost, muttering to himself.

"Since you know the supernatural powers of my family's pillar, you should know that the human race has quite some nerve, actually daring to send someone to seduce our Black Phoenix Clan's young master. And daring to bring our Saint Clan's bloodline back to the human race. Did you really think that by running back to the human race's three realms, our Black Phoenix Clan wouldn't dare to pursue this?" The palace-dressed young woman's willow brows gradually stood up, and her tone became chilling.

"My daughter has already died because of Daier. What else do you want?" The purple-robed man seemed to have let go of everything, gritting his teeth and saying hatefully.

"What else? Naturally, to bring her back to our Black Phoenix Palace. Although she is a half-demon, she is also our Saint Clan's bloodline. How can she be left here in the human race? It's best that your daughter is dead; that saves me from having to take action myself. Speak, where is that little girl." The palace-dressed young woman's gaze toward the man became increasingly unkind.

"I don't know!" After his expression fluctuated for a long time, the purple-robed man still managed to spit out these few words with difficulty.

The palace-dressed young woman's expression did not change at all, appearing not at all surprised by the man's answer. However, she immediately raised her hand and grabbed into the void toward the man. Immediately, the man's body "whooshed" and was sucked over out of thin air, and five slender fingers pressed right onto the man's crown.

"Take one last look at this world; you won't exist anymore." The woman said coldly, and blue strange rays flashed repeatedly from her five fingers.

The purple-robed man rolled his eyes, and completely lost consciousness...

I don't know how long later, a corpse that had shrunk to a few feet in size fell from mid-air and landed in the forest below, disappearing.

"This is somewhat troublesome. This old fellow was secretly a stubborn old man who prioritized the human race. He actually gave his confidant an order to execute his granddaughter immediately if they didn't rendezvous in ten days. Everyone says a tiger won't eat its cubs, but he really could take such a cruel step. It seems he would rather have his own bloodline cut off than let our Black Phoenix Clan have another high-tier demonic cultivator. Fortunately, he was just a mere body refiner; if he were a cultivator, he might have truly become a character. However, when the city was breached, he let his subordinates protect the little girl and break out, and he wasn't with her. You few, did you truly not see the person I am looking for that day?" The palace-dressed young woman swept her gaze over the demonic beasts beside her, and suddenly her voice turned cold.

The demonic beasts looked at each other, then let out a series of whimpering cries, their demeanor extremely respectful.

Seeing this, the woman frowned, then suddenly flipped her palm, revealing a blood-red bead. With a single hand, she flew out a technique, then silently recited a few incantations, opened her mouth, and spat out a small group of essence blood, which turned into blood mist and covered the bead.

Immediately, the blood-red bead emitted a layer of blood light, which flowed incessantly on its surface.

The woman stared at the bead without blinking. I don't know how long later, she closed her eyes with a trace of fatigue, but immediately opened them again.

"The person I am looking for is not dead. And she is staying in this area and hasn't left. Regardless of what method you use, you must find her for me. And it must be within three days. If you don't complete this task, you have no value in remaining in this world. However, I am clear on rewards and punishments; if you capture the Anyuan City City Lord first, there will naturally be rewards. Take these pills first; they are enough to save you hundreds of years of bitter cultivation. If you can find traces of that little girl, I will double the reward." The young woman flicked her fingers, and several fragrant winds were released, and several pale white pills shot toward the demons in front of her.

These low-tier demonic beasts were overjoyed and hurriedly opened their mouths to swallow the pills, whimpering with joy. Immediately, they turned into groups of demonic aura and rolled far away.

"Truly troublesome. If it weren't for the fact that I cannot easily use my spiritual sense and spiritual power for fear of attracting high-tier human cultivators, how could I be so restricted and have to rely on these stupid things to do things. However, I cannot stay here for long; I must finish things as quickly as possible and leave." The palace-dressed young woman sighed lightly, then raised her hand, red clouds flashed, and a brocade-patch-like treasure covered her body, turning into a wisp of green smoke and disappearing on the spot.

Not long after the woman's figure disappeared, a seemingly ordinary small tree in the forest below suddenly twisted, and suddenly turned into a black-robed old man with a grim face, holding a corpse in one hand, precisely the purple-robed man who had died during the soul-searching.

"I didn't expect it to be a demonic girl of the Black Phoenix Clan. Her cultivation is much higher than mine; if it weren't for the fact that this woman didn't dare to easily release her spiritual sense, I fear I wouldn't have been able to hide from her ears and eyes. However, I didn't expect that in a small Anyuan City, there would be a half-demon containing Black Phoenix Clan bloodline. Haha, this is a once-in-a-thousand-years opportunity. How could I let go of such a good opportunity. This corpse can be utilized." The old man whispered with a chuckle, then threw the corpse in his hand into the air, rubbed his hands together, and then tossed them into the air.

Immediately, a gray mist wrapped around the corpse, and they all merged into it.

An incredible scene appeared; the originally withered body suddenly bulged in the blink of an eye, and the flesh and blood became plump as if it had been revived by spring, and even the originally broken arm grew back.

"Hehe, with this corpse, I will find that little girl first, and then..."

"And then what?"

The black-robed old man had a trace of self-satisfaction in his light chuckle, when suddenly a cold voice came from behind him. His face changed drastically, and he acted like a rabbit whose tail had been stepped on, turning into a gray light and shooting away forward, completely ignoring the corpse.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 1291 =====