Stranger Danger-Chapter 1752: Suppressing The Golden Crow

It looks like the Li Fire Divine Wheel possesses greater potential than I imagined!

Ye Qing thought to himself while rubbing his nose. Then, another thought entered his mind.

I wonder if I can check out the Soup Valley with its protection?

Ye Qing’s heart was ablaze with desire the moment he realized this. He didn’t covet its treasure or anything, of course. He just wanted to check it out and broaden his horizon.

Nah, maybe next time.

In the end though, Ye Qing recalled their objective and decided against his desire. The Soup Valley wasn’t going anywhere anyway. He could always come back in the future.

“A bird! A big bird!”

Suddenly, Lingyu’s cry caught his attention.

The group looked just in time to see a gigantic bird in the direction she was pointing. It was flying toward them.

The gigantic bird was shaped like a crow with three legs. It was gold from head to toe and burning with golden flames. Every time it flapped its wings, golden flames would spread out like clouds and ignite the world around it. It looked brilliant, grandiose, and dangerous.

“Golden Crow... not good! The Golden Crow is flying toward us!”

Old Man Turtle suddenly grew serious and performed a hand seal. The Spirit Turtle Hall rapidly shrank into the size of a speck of dust. Its inhabitants weren’t affected by the spell in the slightest though[1].

At the same time, Ye Qing also recalled the Li Fire Divine Wheel and caught it with one hand.

It wasn’t long before the Golden Crow reached the airspace where the Spirit Turtle Hall was at a moment ago.

Earlier, the Golden Crow was too far away for them to get a measure of it. Now, it was different.

First, it was big and handsome. It was gigantic like a mountain with a wingspan that resembled sky-blotting clouds. Its claws resembled pillars that held up the sky, and its whole body was covered in golden bright scales and feathers. The feathers were flowing with golden flames that gave it a handsome, beautiful, and mysterious appearance.

Second, it was terrifying. Its size alone was enough to intimidate most people, but the aura it was giving off was horrifying as well. Its surging golden flames felt potent enough to scorch heaven and earth and burn all living things like ants.

“As expected of the one they call the Child of the Sun. Pretty terrifying.”

Ye Qing said while patting the trembling, shell-shocked Lingyu and dispelling her fear.

The Golden Crow before their eyes was definitely an Ancient-class Stranger. Its aura marked it as on par with an Aboder as well.

“The Golden Crow was coming for us,” Feng Qingyou remarked. She knew this because the Golden Crow did not leave after arriving at their location. Instead, it circled round and round as if looking for something.

“It probably sensed our aura earlier.”

Old Man Turtle guessed. “There’s no worry. I already hid the Spirit Turtle Hall’s presence. It shouldn’t be able to find us.”

As Old Man Turtle said, the Golden Crow was unable to find their precise location despite lingering for a long time.

“Caw!”

After searching for a long time to no avail, the seemingly furious Golden Crow let out a shrill caw. It sounded tyrannical and violent.

The next moment, the Golden Crow flapped its wings and unleashed a flood of Golden Crow Flame toward the ground.

Clearly, it had decided to flush them out with an indiscriminate attack instead.

Rumble!

Once the golden flames hit the ground, the mountains and soil that was as tough as certain divine metal and ultimate treasures instantly melted into molten lava, red hot and bubbling.

In just a moment, everything within a radius of several kilometers had melted into a lake of lava. Lava was spurting everywhere and kicking up volcanic waves.

“Caw! Caw! Caw!”

Unfortunately, the Golden Crow still found nothing after circling the area for a bit. In the end, it could only caw impotently before leaving in rage.

The group did not appear immediately after the Golden Crow was gone. Instead, they waited a teatime until they were sure that the creature had left. Only then did they fly out of the lake of lava.

“Phew... that Golden Crow is quite deadly.”

Old Man Turtle let out a sigh of relief when the Spirit Turtle Hall was out of the range of the lava lake.

The lava was created by the Golden Crow Flame, and the Golden Crow Flame was the fiercest and strongest, most yang and destructive fire in the world. If not for Ye Qing’s Li Fire Divine Wheel, there was no way the Spirit Turtle Hall could have endured the lava lake for as long as it had.

“Let’s leave as soon as possible. If the bird returns, we’ll be in trouble,” A pale-looking Lingyu advised with lingering trepidation.

“Good idea.”

Old Man Turtle nodded. He was just about to fly the Spirit Turtle Hall away when Ye Qing said, “It’s too late.”

“What is?” Old Man Turtle asked in puzzlement, though he found his answer just a fraction of a second later. He saw a Volcanic Fire Bird standing on a piece of rock and examining them with cruel and taunting eyes.

“The cunning bastard!”

Old Man Turtle rubbed his forehead. Clearly, the Volcanic Fire Bird was the spy the Golden Crow had left behind.

This also meant that the Golden Crow had discovered them.

They weren’t careless. The Golden Crow was just more cunning than expected.

Old Man Turtle looked to Ye Qing and Feng Qingyou for advice. “What should we do?”

“We end this quickly.”

Ye Qing said without hesitation, “Take care of the girl, elder.”

Ye Qing disappeared without warning. At the same time, a ball of golden fire descended from above.

The next moment, the golden flame crashed into some sort of invisible wall and dissipated, revealing the Golden Crow.

Before the fire and explosion could spread, a pentachromatic cloud appeared and wiped out everything.

Not only that, Innate Yin Yang Qi conjured a blue sky and profound yellow thick earth. Inside, formless qi was conjuring the many facades of red dust.

It was the Profound Yellow Heaven of Freedom.

“Caw!”

The Golden Crow cawed and threw its flames everywhere, scorching heaven and earth.

Inside his world, Ye Qing made a tugging motion and created a millstone out of his Innate Yin Yang Qi. The millstone slowly rotated and disintegrated the Golden Crow Flame.

The next moment, Ye Qing curled his finger and knocked. Profound yellow earth leaped up like dragons and clashed against the Golden Crow.

The Golden Crow cawed and spat its all-consuming flames at the earth. It also flapped its wings to kick up tornados that spanned dozens of kilometers, and ripped and tore with its claws. It instantly destroyed the profound yellow dragons into pieces.

However, the profound yellow dragons were endless. They kept returning no matter how many were killed.

Furious, the Golden Crow abandoned the profound yellow dragons and charged toward Ye Qing instead. Kill the leader, and the rest would fall.

Ye Qing’s response toward the charging Golden Crow was to lower his palm.

The flip of a palm could summon a storm. The fall of a palm could cause a yin yang sky to fall.

Every time the palm descended an inch, the yin yang sky would fall a couple hundred meters, and the Golden Crow would slow down a tad.

When the palm had descended three inches, the sky had fallen by dozens of kilometers, and the Golden Crow felt like it was carrying the weight of the nine heavens on its shoulder. Forget flying, it could barely move its wings.

1. And you didn’t do this sooner why? You could’ve reduced the amount of heat your house is absorbing if you just shrank it dude. ☜