Chapter 1543: An End to the Fight

Above Feng Xian's head was a golden cauldron protecting her body. Her mental energy manifested a divine sword that pointed straight at her opponents.

Her team had had a numerical advantage, but the members of Team Zenith somehow managed to force parity. With Leiting Ya and the Immortal King's substitute being killed, along with the man and woman in black, the tide had turned against them.

Except for Zhang Lie, who was facing off against the man in dark green robes at the top of the altar, the strongest enemy cultivator remaining was Sun Xiaowu. Only by killing him could Feng Xian salvage the fight.

Sun Xiaowu fought without turning back.

Three arrows, brimming with purple flame, flew forward like tracking missiles.

"[Lunarflame Shot]!"

The three flaming arrows exploded in mid-air in a brilliant burst of fireworks that shattered the sword and caused it to dissolve in a storm of mental fragments.

Sun Mengmeng frowned, her bow taut. "Do you think I'll let you hurt my brother?"

Sun Xiaowu beamed. He knew that his sister would protect him.

With Sun Mengmeng guarding him, he had nothing to fear.

Feng Xian whispered. Motes of light formed a faint specter of her that gave off a frightening aura and shocked all spectators.

"[The Nine Moons of the Underworld]!"

Nine flaming moons appeared in the sky, overshadowing the illumination of the sun.

They fell one after another, but Feng Xian managed to defend against their onslaught using a shield of mental energy.

She then transformed that energy into weaponry: a sword one moment, a lance the next, indestructible and unbelievably sharp.

"[Baptism of Hellfire: Phoenix Rising]!"

Sun Mengmeng's body lit up with roaring purple flames. The phoenix that formed around Sun Mengmeng transformed into a blazing tempest.

A phoenix's flame took over the golden flames and transformed them into storms of hellfire. Phoenixes emerged from those storms, descending on the altar.

Feng Xian sent a golden cauldron brimming with light surging toward the flaming phoenixes.

The flames exploded in a tempest. Mental energy blocked their advance, but Feng Xian's physical body wasn't able to hold out. The moonlight that shrouded her body lit up in flames.

"Die!" Feng Xian thundered, enraged. The image of a phoenix appeared around her as her aura of moonlight transformed into black flames that she absorbed as energy.

"[Lunar Apostasy]!" Sun Mengmeng's entire bow was blazing. She launched her arrows straight into the air, which exploded among the clouds and formed a black moon, shooting down rays of moonlight.

Feng Xian's body glimmered with moonlight of her own. The moonlight exuded from her and combined with her mental energy to unleash incredible strength.

"[Netherworld's Torrential Flame]!"

A frightening fan of flames poured out from Sun Mengmeng's bow, an attack far stronger than the moonlight she had summoned. The intensity of her technique shocked everyone.

The flames arced in the air and fell toward the battlefield in a waterfall.

However, Feng Xian's devastating combination of light from her mental and physical selves, boasting incredible penetrating power, pierced through Sun Mengmeng's waterfall of light and her barrage of flaming arrows that followed.

"[Baptism of Hellfire: Meteoric Blades]!"

The flames condensed onto her throwing knives, which glimmered with blinding light. They seemed like fragments of a purple sun. Flaming phoenix wings stretched out from Sun Mengmeng's back, propelling her forward in a burst of momentum. She transformed into a scorching meteor.

Her meteoric blades clashed against Feng Xian's sword.

The sword cracked the altar as the flames burned the heavens. The purple flames exploded like meteors, like the most brilliant of fireworks.

Feng Xian too unfurled two flaming phoenix's wings from her back. She flew up the ancient hall.

"[Lunarflame Shot: Ninefold Phantasmagoria]."

Sun Mengmeng's surroundings began to burn with concentrated flames as she launched yet another attack.

Nine purplish-black phoenixes rose around her and shot toward Feng Xian. The black flames surrounded her and transformed into a whirlwind of flame.

The black flames were sucked into her phoenix wings, which suddenly expanded greatly in size. The wings seemed to cover up the entire ceiling of the hall.

Feng Xian combined her physical and mental strength in a burst of light. The black flame that she had absorbed through her wings flared as she dove down toward Sun Mengmeng.

"[Lunarflame Shot]!"

Purplish-black flames gathered on Sun Mengmeng's bow once again, forming an arrow of pure black.

The image of a golden garuda, limned in black, appeared behind her. As she loosed her arrow, it seemed to transform into a beam of light, moving so quickly that it bypassed the constraints of time and space, as though it could penetrate anything.

Sun Mengmeng launched an arrow composed of flames compressed to their utmost. Her opponent, Feng Xian, was a shining burst of radiance that resulted from the conjunction of physical and mental strength, reinforced by the black flames that she had stolen from Sun Mengmeng. The clash between the two cultivators led to an explosion of black flame and mental energy all over the ancient hall, forcing the other cultivators back.

The black flames burned vibrantly on Feng Xian's body, igniting her mental energy. A huge figure materialized behind her, a hundred meters tall, with branches smooth and shining, or covered with soft down. Leaves grew from the branches, narrow and needle-like, each one several meters long and tapering off to a jagged tip. It was a large, beautiful flower, one that looked like a phoenix with wings unfurled, preparing for flight. A deific air surrounded it; it glowed with light and gave off an alluring scent.

A black ring of flame burst forth from Feng Xian as she broke through a barrier, bracing herself against a barrage of golden arrows as she accelerated.

"It's time to put an end to this fight!"

Feng Xian absorbed Sun Mengmeng's flames and converted them into her own strength. The flames surrounded her and released overwhelming power.

"[Lunarflame Shot: Extirpation of the Garuda]!"

𝗳𝚛𝚎𝚎𝘄𝕖𝕓𝕟𝕠𝚟𝚎𝕝.𝗰𝕠𝐦

Black flames, stuck together, flowed like lava along the ground. Wrapped in flame, Sun Mengmeng strode forth. Her pupils had been replaced by black flame, and she looked like a demon from the abyss.

As Sun Mengmeng infused her genetic energy into the bow, the image of a garuda appeared behind her. She released her arrow, which morphed into a human-faced, golden-winged bird in mid-air, radiating red light as it arced through the skies. It began to pulse with red flame, brimming with such energy that it seemed as though it would set the world aflame.

The destructive energy dyed everything in sight black.