Chapter 97: Pacifying the Southern Frontier! Shou Zhe Advances to the Purple Abode (Seeking Monthly Votes)

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As the Great Emperor muttered to himself,

the three people from South Qin, seeing the situation turn dire, panicked and took to the sky, each breaking away in three different directions.

"Boom!"

One of them, with formidable strength, sent three trusted aides flying with a punch and, with a furious roar, shot towards the sky.

At the same time, a terrifying aura burst forth from him.

The shrill cry of a bird suddenly rose, and a giant pitch-black phoenix phantom abruptly appeared behind him.

This was a massive phoenix so solid it seemed corporeal, with vast, jet-black wings and crimson phoenix eyes that radiated a devastatingly fierce aura. Its tail feathers, burning with Netherworld flames, seemed endlessly long, stretching out into the distant void.

With the emergence of this phoenix, a bone-chilling Netherworld presence suddenly blossomed, bringing with it endless malice and violence that swept across the area.