"A mid-level Great Demon, the mystical Fire Sparrow!"
Having set his sights on the target, Ye Chen spread his wind and thunder wings behind him and tread through the air, walking towards the giant Fire Sparrow that was fast asleep.
With each step he took, he traversed seven to eight meters through the void, and after three or four steps, the distance between him and the slumbering Fire Sparrow was just over twenty meters.
As he moved, Gang Yuan True Qi burst forth wildly from within Ye Chen's body, instantly forming a hundred-meter-high towering protective True Qi aura around him.
Facing the giant Fire Sparrow that dominated the entire 88th Floating Peak, although he sensed that it was only a mid-level Great Demon, Ye Chen wasn't the least bit careless.
Whether it was the mystical feeling the Fire Sparrow gave him, or its ability to reign over other mid-level Great Demons, Ye Chen knew that capturing this Fire Sparrow wouldn't be simple.
Just as Ye Chen came within ten meters of the giant Fire Sparrow, the clusters of fiery red light around the sleeping bird suddenly burst forth. At the same time, the slumbering Fire Sparrow suddenly awoke, as if sensing something, and opened its eyes to look straight at Ye Chen.
When it saw the figure of Ye Chen approaching, the giant Fire Sparrow let out a clear cry and began to flit its wings, preparing to take off.
As the giant Fire Sparrow fully spread its wings and soared into the sky, Ye Chen's eyes lit up.
What a beautiful Fire Sparrow!
The giant Fire Sparrow, with wings unfurled, was an impressive one hundred and thirty meters long, each individual feather resembling a blazing fire, making it look like a giant cluster of flames in flight!
And its crystal-clear eyes emitted a mystical glow. Together with the black flame pattern on its forehead, it looked even more majestic than when it was asleep.
The more he looked at the giant Fire Sparrow, the more Ye Chen liked it, his impulse to capture this mystical bird and make it his mount growing uncontrollable!
"Come, beautiful Fire Sparrow, from now on be my mount and follow me on journeys across the whole Barbaric Wilderness Continent!"
Ye Chen walked towards the giant Fire Sparrow with a faint smile.
The giant Fire Sparrow, as a mid-level Great Demon beast, had intelligence almost akin to humans. Although it was not yet at the level of the Demon Kings in the Rotating Pill Realm, who could speak the human language, it clearly understood Ye Chen's words!
Hearing Ye Chen's intention of making it a mount, the feathers on the Fire Sparrow's forehead stood on end, clearly showing its extreme annoyance.
After a piercing cry, it burst into flight, flapping its enormous wings as it swooped down to attack Ye Chen.
Watching the mystical Fire Sparrow angrily charging at him, Ye Chen merely smiled and countercharged towards the bird.
To tame this Fire Sparrow as his mount, he needed to subdue it first!
Only with overwhelming strength could he make the Fire Sparrow willingly accept him as its master!
In the sky, on one side was Ye Chen with his silvery Gang Yuan True Qi rising tumultuously over a hundred meters high, and on the other was the mystical Fire Sparrow with wings stretched perhaps as long as one hundred and thirty meters.
A man and a beast locked in a fierce battle high among the clouds.
"Ye Chen is finally starting to capture the Great Demon in the 88th Floating Peak!"
"Good heavens, such a majestic Great Demon beast, a giant Fire Sparrow. The beast Ye Chen is trying to capture is even more mystical than the White Eagle that Yu Luoxuan caught before!"
On the sect plaza, tens of thousands of sect disciples, eyes glued to the gigantic screen, burst into cheers when they saw Ye Chen finally commence his attempt at capturing a Great Demon.
Ye Chen had made his move, and against such a majestic Great Demon at that, which sent the watching sect disciples into a frenzy of excitement!
"The 88th Floating Peak!"
"Ye Chen has finally started to capture a Great Demon as well!"
"The beast he is trying to capture must be a mid-level Great Demon!"
In the void within the secret area of Tianji Cliff, the prospective disciples who had completed their assessment, riding on flying Demon Beasts, were also bursting with excitement upon seeing the figure of Ye Chen finally entering into battle up in the sky.
Meanwhile, Jiang Yao, other Spirit Sea Realm disciples, and Rotating Pill Realm powerhouses were intently focused on Ye Chen in the sky above, as well as the giant Fire Sparrow he was battling.
Everyone's eyes were on Ye Chen and the giant Fire Sparrow, yet no one noticed that when Fairy Jia Luo and Daoist Wine Sword saw the giant Fire Sparrow, their eyes simultaneously flashed with shock, and when they looked at Ye Chen again, concern was evident on their faces.
Clearly, they had realized that something was amiss!
In the sky above, on the 88th Floating Peak, Ye Chen, who fought fiercely with the giant Fire Sparrow, grew increasingly shocked as the battle raged on.
Ye Chen's hard cultivation in the Ancient God Tower, coupled with over a month of training after leaving the tower, had made him strong enough to easily handle a mid-stage Spirit Sea Realm expert. However, in battling this mid-ranking Great Demon Fire Sparrow, he was utterly unable to overpower it.
The more he fought, the more Ye Chen realized the formidable power of the Fire Sparrow. In the end, he couldn't help but resort to his truly powerful techniques.
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
The moment Ye Chen stopped holding back, hundreds of inverted Swords of True Qi appeared outside his body.
These Swords of True Qi glinted with dazzling silver light, indeed they were condensed from Ye Chen's overwhelmingly strong Gang Yuan True Qi at the eleventh level.
At the same time, the Swords of True Qi thrummed with an immense Sword Intent of slaughter.
Faced with the powerfully strong Fire Sparrow, Ye Chen drew upon his strongest Sword Intent as well!
Once the Swords of True Qi were formed, Ye Chen charged with the several hundred Swords of True Qi directly at the giant Fire Sparrow, his intent solely to subdue it in one fell swoop!
"Slaughter Sword Intent!"
"It is indeed the second-tier Sword Intent!"
"This kid Ye Chen, he has truly grasped the second-tier Sword Intent!"
Daoist Wine Sword, who was watching the battle from below, his eyes brightened upon seeing the Swords of True Qi cascading from Ye Chen.
Although Ye Chen's newly revealed technique was a pleasant surprise, the trace of worry in Daoist Wine Sword's eyes had not vanished.
Just as Ye Chen charged fiercely toward the giant Fire Sparrow with hundreds of Swords of True Qi filled with Slaughter Intent, the Fire Sparrow in the sky seemed to realize the severity of Ye Chen's move.
The giant Fire Sparrow suddenly spread its wings, burst into the sky, and in an instant, managed to evade Ye Chen's attack.
At the same time, the erupting, miraculous Fire Sparrow let out an ear-piercing screech!
This unbearably piercing screech reverberated in all directions!
Upon hearing this screech, even Ye Chen's form shook violently, as the True Qi within his body started swirling uncontrollably.
Moreover, something even more astonishing happened. As the screech echoed out, numerous flying Demon Beasts and Great Demons on the Ninety-Nine Floating Peaks, upon hearing the screech, seemed to be terrified. They fled frantically from those peaks, adding their own frantic screams to the cacophony.
The Demon Beasts and Great Demons that fled in panic were not only those from the peaks below, like the 66th Floating Peak, but even the Great Demons residing in the top-most thirty-three peaks were disturbed.
All the Great Demons Ye Chen previously explored on the Eighty-Fifth Floating Peak hurriedly flew out in alarm, and even those in the higher peaks he hadn't explored—like the 98th and the 99th Floating Peaks—were so startled that they took off too!
These high-ranking Great Demons were actually being frightened into flight by this mid-ranking Great Demon Fire Sparrow, sending them scattering in all directions. This completely astounded Ye Chen, who was witnessing the commotion on the peaks.
Could it be that this mid-ranking Great Demon Fire Sparrow was even more formidable than the high-ranking ones?!
Instantly, Ye Chen recalled something. When he previously surveyed the 86th and the 87th Floating Peaks, not a single Great Demon seemed to inhabit those places.
Could it be that because of fear of the Fire Sparrow on the 88th Floating Peak, no Great Demon dared to inhabit the nearby peaks?!
Moreover, Ye Chen noticed that not only the 86th and the 87th Floating Peak, but even the high-ranking Great Demons from the highest peaks were frightened into flight, and there was no movement at all on the 89th and the 90th Floating Peaks above the 88th Floating Peak where the giant Fire Sparrow resided.
Clearly, no Great Demon dared to tread on the 89th and the 90th Floating Peaks either!
This giant Fire Sparrow was single-handedly dominating the 88th Floating Peak, ensuring that no Great Demon dared to step foot on the two peaks below it and the two peaks above it!
It had startled high-ranking Great Demons into flight!
What kind of flying Demon Beast was it?!
Just as Ye Chen was dumbstruck, the surging, screeching giant Fire Sparrow suddenly underwent a shocking, bizarre transformation.
The extraordinary giant Fire Sparrow's forehead, patterned with black fire-like markings, suddenly lit up. As these black fiery markings brightened, in the blink of an eye, the Fire Sparrow's crimson feathers transformed into a deep blue color, the blue feathers resembling flames ablaze!
The giant Fire Sparrow's feathers had instantly changed colors!
Upon seeing the giant Fire Sparrow's feathers change color, Daoist Wine Sword and Fairy Jia Luo below, who were looking up at the battle in the sky, had their worried expressions finally give way to full-blown shock.
Both Rotating Pill Realm experts exclaimed in unison, "Black Inferno Sparrow, it's the 'Black Inferno Sparrow' that has completed its mid-stage bloodline awakening!"