241: The Three-legged Crow

"Yo!"

Sure enough.

Following a violent tremor, a strange bird flew out from within.

This strange bird had an unusual appearance.

It had crimson feathers and a high crest.

But what was most astonishing were its feet.

Normal birds have two feet.

This bird, however, had three.

Crimson flames emanated from its feet, looking dazzling to the extreme.

"Holy crap."

"Is this a Three-legged Golden Crow?!"

The moment Mu Feng saw the strange bird's appearance, he immediately thought of the Three-legged Golden Crow from myths and legends.

This scared him greatly.

This was a divine bird from legends!

If his opponent was such a divine bird, then with his current strength, he would have no chance of winning.

Mu Feng swallowed with difficulty, feeling as if he had caused a great disaster.

"Don't worry, this isn't a Three-legged Golden Crow. This is just a Three-legged Crow with a trace of Three-legged Golden Crow Bloodline. However, even with just a trace of Bloodline, it's enough for it to be much stronger than Yao Beasts of the same Realm. You must not underestimate it."

As if sensing Mu Feng's inner shock, a red prompt appeared before his eyes.

"Three-legged Crow?"

Mu Feng, who was originally preparing to slip away, paused after seeing the red prompt.

Upon realizing that this was merely a Three-legged Crow with a trace of true spirit Bloodline, and not the legendary Three-legged Golden Crow, he halted his escape.

To ensure the System wasn't deceiving him, Mu Feng unleashed his Spiritual Eye Divine Power and began to investigate the strange bird's information.

"Name: Three-legged Crow (Primordial Variant)"

"Realm: Sixth Rank"

"Introduction: A Primordial Variant Beast possessing a trace of Three-legged Golden Crow Bloodline. It is powerful, and the Samadhi True Fire from its mouth can burn everything. Do not come into contact with it."

"Skills: ???"

"It's indeed a Three-legged Crow, not a Three-legged Golden Crow."

"Sixth Rank."

"Samadhi True Fire, can burn everything."

"I can't even see its skills, this is troublesome."

Mu Feng quickly read the information about the strange bird before him.

The beginning was fine.

But when he looked at the skill page, he found that he couldn't detect its skills.

This made Mu Feng pause.

He had encountered such situations a few times before.

However, that was because the opponents were Cultivators with Magic Treasures, which might have had a shielding effect on his detection.

This was the first time Mu Feng had encountered a Yao Beast whose skills he couldn't detect.

Not being able to see the opponent's skills meant that he had to focus even more.

He had to try his best to avoid any skills.

Especially the Samadhi True Fire mentioned in the introduction.

Fortunately, the opponent was a Sixth Rank Yao Beast.

Mu Feng was confident that as long as he focused, he could kill it.

"Yo!"

The Three-legged Crow's eyes were very sharp.

While Mu Feng was investigating its information, it also discovered Mu Feng lurking in the distance.

With a flap of its wings, it immediately swooped down towards Mu Feng to kill him.

"Go!"

Because he wasn't entirely clear on the opponent's skills, Mu Feng didn't use a Magic Treasure yet. Instead, he first unleashed an Azure Origin Sword Light for a probing attack.

"Crack!"

Facing hundreds of Flying Swords, the Three-legged Crow flapped its wings.

A strong gale of crimson flames immediately erupted from its body, sweeping all the Flying Swords into it.

These crimson flames were clearly of a higher Spell Rank than the sword light.

Under its scorching, all the dark green Flying Swords transformed into azure-green streams of light and dissipated into the air.

Watching the opponent so easily break through his sword light, Mu Feng's pupils slightly changed.

Upon their first exchange, he knew this Three-legged Crow would be difficult to deal with.

Sure enough.

After breaking Mu Feng's attack, those strong flames didn't dissipate. Instead, they formed a fiery tornado that swept towards Mu Feng.

"Collect!"

Although he couldn't release his Divine Sense to probe the intensity of the fiery tornado, judging from how easily it had just broken his sword light attack, it was certainly not simple.

Therefore, Mu Feng no longer held back.

He directly summoned the Treasure Dropping Flower Basket.

As True Yuan was infused, the Flower Basket glowed brightly with treasure light, and a vast yellow aura of light radiated from within the basket.

The scene of Divine Sense quickly unfolded.

Under the illumination of the aura of light, the violent and scorching fiery tornado actually began to shrink, then was directly swept into the Flower Basket by the aura of light.

Seeing its attack vanish like that, the Three-legged Crow paused, clearly startled by the Move of the Treasure Dropping Flower Basket.

However, it quickly recovered.

"Yo!"

After another high-pitched cry, scorching flames once again swept towards Mu Feng, as if wanting to see how Mu Feng would break its Spell.

"Collect!"

Seeing the opponent use that Move again, Mu Feng raised the Flower Basket once more.

With a sweep of the aura of light, all the scorching flames were collected.

With both of its Spells broken by Mu Feng, the Three-legged Crow understood that this Move was ineffective against Mu Feng.

Its body trembled, and it vanished into the high sky.

"Not good!"

Mu Feng's expression tightened upon realizing that the opponent had vanished from his sight.

Because he couldn't release his Divine Sense, Mu Feng didn't know from which direction the opponent would attack.

He simultaneously released the Soul Yuan Bowl and the Azure Origin Sword Shield, while activating the Cloud Stepping Boots and Blood Magic Robe on his body, hoping to avoid the opponent's frontal assault as much as possible.

"Thump!"

As soon as the two shields rose, Mu Feng felt a tremendous force collide with him.

His entire body was flung out like a cannonball.

"Crack."

Under the heavy impact, the Azure Origin Sword Shield shattered first.

Fortunately, the Soul Yuan Bowl was quite effective.

It withstood this fierce attack from the Three-legged Crow.

He looked down and saw that his chest was completely black.

If he hadn't reacted quickly and deployed a double layer of shields for protection, he might have already been pierced through.

"As expected of a Primordial Variant Beast, this speed is almost comparable to the Black Emperor Blade at its peak."

"Go!"

Having suffered two losses in a row, Mu Feng also grew angry.

With a thought, the golden small arrow within his body flew out.

This was the first time Mu Feng had used this exotic treasure, the Golden Lightning Arrow.

Earlier, when fighting the Kai Ming Beast, Mu Feng had wanted to use it.

However, the opponent didn't even last through the Extreme Lightning Bottle, so Mu Feng didn't release it.

Now, discovering that the Three-legged Crow's strength was somewhat beyond his imagination, he no longer held back.

He directly unleashed his trump card.

"Crackle!"

As soon as the Golden Lightning Arrow emerged, violent golden electric arcs surged all around, crackling loudly.

With the golden small arrow unleashed, Mu Feng pursed his lips and waved one hand.

The Golden Lightning Arrow, carrying violent golden electric arcs, shot towards the Three-legged Crow.

"Crack, crack, crack!"

Facing the terrifying golden lightning, the Three-legged Crow dared not be complacent in the slightest.

It opened its mouth, and a red spherical pearl shot out.

With the red spherical pearl's enhancement, the Three-legged Crow's entire body of flames became crystal clear.

"Samadhi True Fire!"

The moment he saw the flames, Mu Feng recalled the information he had just checked about the Three-legged Crow.

Knowing that these flames were incredibly powerful, he dared not be complacent and directly attack with the Golden Lightning Arrow.

Instead, he recalled the Golden Lightning Arrow's main body, using only the Evil-warding Divine Lightning it released to bombard the flames.

"Rumble!"

After a violent roar, the crystal clear flames and the golden divine lightning dissipated in the air, respectively.

These two legendary Spells and Divine Abilities actually ended in a draw.

Both sides were stunned by this result.

Mu Feng was surprised by the strength of the Evil-warding Divine Lightning.

That was the legendary Samadhi True Fire, after all.

He hadn't expected the Evil-warding Divine Lightning to be able to fight it to a draw.

This gave Mu Feng a new understanding of the Evil-warding Divine Lightning's power.

If he hadn't recalled the Golden Lightning Arrow just now, he might have already won this clash.

"Again!"

Discovering the power of the Evil-warding Divine Lightning, Mu Feng no longer held back this time.

He went all out, injecting all his True Yuan into the Golden Lightning Arrow.

"Crack, crack, crack!"

The Golden Lightning Arrow, carrying a large amount of power, set off again.

This time, its momentum was even more terrifying than before.

The violent electric arcs seemed to pierce through the space itself.

Seeing this, the Three-legged Crow's expression tightened, and it once again summoned the red spherical pearl it had previously spat out.

This time, it did not retract the pearl, but directly spat out the pearl's main body to attack!

"Boom!"

A deafening roar erupted from where the Golden Lightning Arrow and the red spherical pearl collided.

The terrifying shockwave flung both the individual and the bird who had unleashed the Move away.

"Splat!"

Mu Feng's body slammed heavily into a giant rock.

The powerful rebound made Mu Feng feel as if his internal organs were dislodged, and his entire chest was burning.

"Pfft!"

His Qi and blood surged, and Mu Feng felt an itch in his throat. A large mouthful of fresh blood gushed from his mouth.

He looked down, discovering that the area touched by the shockwave was already a bloody mess, with red blood continuously flowing from it.

Fortunately, his Physique was good; it had already begun to self-heal.

Mu Feng was not having an easy time, and neither was the Three-legged Crow.

After spitting out its demon core and colliding with the Golden Lightning Arrow, not only was its main body injured by the shockwave, but the Origin of its demon core was also greatly damaged.

Finally, under the impact of the explosion, its entire body plunged into the magma pool like a kite with a broken string, its fate unknown.

"Go!"

Having succeeded in one strike, Mu Feng ignored his injuries and pulled out diluted ten thousand year spirit liquid from his Storage Ring.

With the replenishment of the spirit liquid, the True Yuan that had been depleted from being fully injected into the Golden Lightning Arrow immediately recovered by half.

After Core Formation, the diluted spirit liquid was not as effective as it was during Foundation Establishment.

Mu Feng knew this was because his True Yuan had increased.

He didn't dwell on this.

He pinpointed where the opponent had just fallen, and with a thought, the Black Emperor Blade within his body whooshed down into the scorching magma, aiming precisely for where the Three-legged Crow had fallen!

"Pfft!"

"Pfft!"

Having just been affected by the explosion, the Three-legged Crow's injuries were much more severe than Mu Feng's.

It was healing after falling into the magma, but it hadn't expected Mu Feng to be so dishonorable, directly ambushing it.

Carelessly, its entire body was directly pierced through by the Black Emperor Blade.

"Success!"

His Divine Sense was on the Black Emperor Blade, so even though he couldn't see the bottom of the pool, he could feel the Black Emperor Blade's attack taking effect.

"Yo!"

The Three-legged Crow, whose body had been pierced, let out a tragic cry.

The intense pain made it irritable.

It opened its mouth wide and frantically devoured the magma at the bottom of the pool.

"Hmm?"

Mu Feng had originally thought that the Three-legged Crow would die immediately after being pierced by the Black Emperor Blade.

He hadn't expected the opponent to become even more frenzied after suffering such severe injuries.

This gave him a bad premonition.

Without thinking, Mu Feng immediately shot out the Black Emperor Blade he had just retrieved again.

This time, his target was the Three-legged Crow's head!

No matter how tenacious your life force, if your head is gone, you'll still be dead.

"Pfft!"

A muffled sound came from the pool, but it wasn't the sound of flesh being pierced. It was the sound of flames being spat out from the Three-legged Crow's mouth.

"Sizzle!"

The moment he heard the sound, Mu Feng immediately pulled the Black Emperor Blade out of the water.

However, he was still a step too late.

As soon as the Black Emperor Blade touched the crystal clear flames, its entire blade transformed into molten iron, scattering into the scorching magma pool.

His Magic Treasure, which he had nurtured for so long, was destroyed.

Mu Feng's face turned pale, filled with lingering fear.

If he hadn't seen the unfavorable situation and directly withdrawn his Divine Soul, the damage would have been far greater than this.

"Be careful, the Three-legged Crow has already advanced to Seventh Rank."

Before Mu Feng could even lament the Black Emperor Blade that had accompanied him for so long, an even more shocking prompt appeared before his eyes.

The already difficult-to-deal-with Three-legged Crow had actually, at the brink of death, broken through the Realm that had confined it for so long, successfully advancing to the Nascent Soul Late Stage.

This news made Mu Feng's face grow even uglier.

"Whoosh!"

The red prompt appeared.

Before he could decide whether to fight or flee, a red phantom shot out from the magma, slamming fiercely into him.

"Boom!"

"Crack!"

The Three-legged Crow's speed after advancing was even faster than before.

Even with the Cloud Stepping Boots and Blood Magic Robe fully activated, Mu Feng still couldn't keep up with its slightest movement.

His two layers of shields, the Azure Origin Sword Shield, shattered upon impact.

Although the remaining Soul Yuan Bowl blocked the collision, its light was significantly dimmed by the impact.

Mu Feng estimated it wouldn't be able to block the opponent for many more hits.

"Dragon Transformation!"

Knowing that his normal form could no longer contend with this Three-legged Crow, Mu Feng formed a hand seal.

A giant Jiao Dragon phantom flew out from his body, circling a few times before rushing into him.

As the Jiao Dragon phantom entered his body, Mu Feng's body began to undergo Jiao Transformation.

"Boom! Boom!"

While Mu Feng was undergoing Dragon Transformation, the Three-legged Crow was forcefully impacting the Soul Yuan Bowl, attempting to nip Mu Feng in the bud.

Unfortunately, while Jiao Transformation seemed to take a long time, it was actually instantaneous.

By the time the Jiao Dragon phantom disappeared, Mu Feng's entire appearance had drastically changed.

A single horn grew on his head, his hands and feet were covered in sharp claws, and hard red scales covered his entire body.

Aside from retaining a partial human face, Mu Feng was almost indistinguishable from a Jiao Dragon.

A bloody aura slowly emanated from his head.

With the Jiao Transformation complete, Mu Feng's speed greatly increased.

Coupled with the enhancement of the Blood Magic Robe, Mu Feng easily kept pace with the Three-legged Crow's rhythm!

"Suppress!"

His hand gestures changed.

The Soul Yuan Bowl, which had been on the verge of collapsing from the bombardment, immediately abandoned its defensive mode and instead moved to suppress the Three-legged Crow's head.

"Yo!"

The Three-legged Crow, which was about to continue its surprise attack, felt dizzy and nauseous when illuminated by the Soul Yuan Bowl, and began to tumble up and down in the air.

"Die!"

Mu Feng naturally wouldn't miss such a good opportunity.

A cold light flashed in his eyes.

He opened his mouth, and the Golden Lightning Arrow was once again spat out by him, fiercely drilling into the Three-legged Crow's body.

"Pfft!"

The Three-legged Crow had just woken up from the Soul Yuan Bowl's control.

By the time it wanted to dodge, it was too late.

With a muffled thud, the Golden Lightning Arrow, carrying golden electric arcs, was embedded in the Three-legged Crow's body.

"Sizzle, sizzle."

Lightning flashed and thunder roared within the Three-legged Crow's body.

The violent lightning destroyed its internal organs.

After advancing, only its power had surged; its physical body had not recovered much.

Already at the end of its rope, it suffered such a severe blow again.

It could no longer hold on.

After a few twitches, its eyes completely lost their light.

(Finished 8000 words today, will continue to burst for love tomorrow with 100.)