Chapter 1280 - Immortal Bird? (1/2)

Chapter 1280: Immortal Bird?

Translator: Larbre Studio Editor: Larbre Studio

After the ice mountain melted, the scorched black bird corpse was completely exposed. Who would’ve thought that such flames would come out of a small bird that had died so many years ago?

Crackle, crackle.

The fire burned brighter and brighter. The heat that it emitted actually created a warm feeling in the bone-chilling ice gorge.

The people fighting on the bridge—Zhang Ruochen, Qi Sheng, and the others—all stopped and stared at the cage hovering in the sky. They were all shocked.

“What is this? What happened?”

“How come I feel weak energy waves coming from the bird corpse?”

“No way! It died tens of thousands of years ago. How can it not be completely dead?”

“The creatures that can be imprisoned here are all horrible world-dominating demons. None of them are simple. Any one that escapes can overturn Kunlun’s Field.”

Not only did Ying Huo have extremely strong Spiritual Power, she could also predict future danger to some extent.

Right now, her expression was a bit grave. “Hurry and leave this place,” she warned. “Otherwise, we will all die here.”

Qi Sheng and Crown Prince Motian knew that Ying Huo’s gut feelings were accurate, so they didn’t dare to stay here any longer. Glancing at Zhang Ruochen at the top of a stone pillar, they stopped attacking.

The two of them rushed out of the stone bridge with Ying Huo and started to climb the ice wall.

Zhang Ruochen also sensed an extremely dangerous aura, so he didn’t stop them. Instead, he grouped with Qing Mo. Grabbing her wrist, he pulled her quickly out of the gorge.

Below them, the fire surging out of the bird corpse covered the entire cage. The s.p.a.ce around the cage was actually a bit distorted.

Caw!

Then, a bird’s sharp cry came out of the flames. All the Saints inside the gorge, including Zhang Ruochen, felt a stab of pain in their heads. It was like getting stabbed with a needle.

Their visions turned black and blood flowed out of their ears. All Saints lost consciousness and plummeted.

As a plant-type creature, Qing Mo wasn’t too affected. She was only dazed temporarily and then quickly reacted.

She grabbed Zhang Ruochen’s wrist backhandedly. The fingers on her other hand transformed into five vines. Hitting the ice wall, the vines produced five holes so they hung in the air.

Ying Huo, Qi Sheng, Crown Prince Motian, Prince White Li, Sky-swallowing Demonic Dragon, and the others weren’t so lucky. They all fell from the sky and crashed against the stone bridge with loud booms.

Zhang Ruochen took a deep breath. Rubbing his temples, he turned and looked down at the cage hovering below him. “Such strong sound waves. Did it really awaken?”

The cage had become a huge fireball. The heat that it emitted was melting the walls of the ice gorge.

Popping sounds came from the palm-sized bird corpse. It broke out of the black sh.e.l.l. Dazzling feathers grew. The scene was as breathtaking as an ugly duckling turning into a swan.

Each of the fiery-red feathers were translucent and glistening as if made out of some type of jade. The Saints on the stone bridge woke up. Seeing this, they all found it incredible.

Did it really come back to life?

Shock flashed past Ying Huo’s eyes. “Is this… the legendary Immortal Bird?”

As the G.o.ddess of the Immortal Pavilion, Ying Huo was very well-learned. She’d once read about the Immortal Bird in an ancient book. It had text and images.

The bird covered in flames in the cage looked very similar to the Immortal Bird.

Thud, thud.

The strange fiery bird crashed against the bars of the cage, wanting to escape from it. The layer of metal on the chains wrapped around the cage broke apart, revealing purple-blue electricity. Dozens of lightning bolts. .h.i.t the bird.

Then the stone bridge shook violently.

Various ancient dragon runes emerged on the bridge like a celestial book.

The Divine Dragons had indeed left some things behind to imprison the monsters here, Zhang Ruochen thought. This is to prevent mutations that can let them escape.

Zhang Ruochen believed that the fiery bird had come back to life because of mutations.

Under normal conditions, even a Supreme Saint being would’ve died after being frozen for so long. How could it come back to life?

Zhang Ruochen was now far from the stone bridge. He could use the Great Spatial Move at any time to escape, so he stayed behind to investigate. He wanted to know what secret was hidden here.

He looked down while asking, “Where’s Blackie?”

Qing Mo’s brows were tightly knit. Thinking back carefully, she said, “Blackie fell down with us. While falling, Princess and I hit an ice mountain. We were instantly sealed and lost consciousness. I think Blackie should be sealed in ice too.”

After a pause, Qing Mo’s eyes looked around. “Could Blackie’s physical body be that bird?”

“How is that possible? It’s a cat.” Zhang Ruochen thought that Qing Mo’s thoughts were too strange and shook his head.

Qing Mo still believed that Blackie was a bird. She debated with Zhang Ruochen with a serious expression. “But Blackie has never made cat sounds. Don’t you think that it might not be a cat?”