My Disciples Are All Villains

The expressions of the four elders were slightly unnatural. In the end, they were of the same generation as Lu Zhou. They could be considered experienced and capable. No matter how old they were, all of them were respectful of the strong. Perhaps, only Lu Zhou was not like that.

The people of the Evil Sky Pavilion looked at the Fire Phoenix and its fiery-red feathers in a daze. Its graceful and elegant appearance was magnified when the light from the fire above and below shone on it. Its feathers were dazzling as well. It was a rare sight.

Nonetheless, they were still afraid it would attack. Some of them still vividly remembered their two previous encounters with the Fire Phoenix. They knew it was not easy to kill the Fire Phoenix. Moreover, it possessed the ability to be reborn.

Everything in the world had a weakness, but no one knew what Fire Phoenix's weakness was. They only knew it was the weakest when it was in the process of rebirth.

Those who had seen the rebirth of the Fire Phoenix before it turned into a divine beast in the Unknown Land were filled with nothing but respect for it.

At this time, the Fire Phoenix lowered its head slightly and looked at Lu Zhou's outstretched hand. It was not a fool; how could it easily hand over its life heart. It let out a few cries.

Before Conch could translate, the little Fire Phoenix next to Little Yuan'er could no longer hold back. It flapped its plump wings and flew up.

No one stopped the little Fire Phoenix as it flew to its mother.

The little Fire Phoenix flapped its wings happily in front of its mother and circled its mother a few times as it chirped excitedly. From time to time, even spat out flames as though it was showing off its abilities.

When the little Fire Phoenix stopped moving around and hovered next to the Fire Phoenix, the Fire Phoenix brought it under its wings, looking as though it was going to leave.

Lu Zhou frowned. "Are you going to renege on your promise?"

The Fire Phoenix let out a few cries.

Everyone turned to look at Conch in unison.

Conch stammered, "I-it… It, it said yes…"

"..."

Mingshi Yin flew over on Qiong Qi's back and said, "Are you kidding me? You're a divine beast, and yet, you're going to renege on your promise? Can you be a little more virtuous?"

After the Fire Phoenix cried out, Conch said in a voice like that of a mosquito, "It said that a lowly human isn't worthy of talking to it."

Mingshi Yin pointed at the Fire Phoenix and said, "Very good, Fire Phoenix! To think that my Ninth Junior Sister raised your child until it's so healthy, plump, and full of sh*t! How dare you be so ungrateful!"

Little Fire Phoenix: "???"

Little Yuan'er: "???"

The Fire Phoenix flapped its wings slightly. It raised its head and looked at the sky with an even more arrogant expression as though it was saying, "So what? What can you do to me?"

True enough, Conch said, "It said so what?"

"..."

They had seen the Divine Fire Phoenix's strength. If it truly wanted to renege on its promise, they truly could not do anything. However, they thought since Lu Zhou had dealt with it twice, Lu Zhou might have the means to deal with it again.

Everyone looked at Lu Zhou silently.

Lu Zhou kept his hand outstretched as he asked, "Are you sure you want to go back on your words?"

The Fire Phoenix lowered its head and stared at Lu Zhou unblinkingly.

Lu Zhou's expression remained the same. No ripples or fluctuations could be seen at all.

The Fire Phoenix did not make a sound. It looked to the left and right before it looked at Zhixu's Pillar of Destruction.

The land continued to burn.

The Fire Phoenix still did not make a sound and continued to look around. Clearly, it was determined to renege on its promise. Its life heart was like its life. Lending its life heart was no different from lending its life. Not to mention divine beasts, even humans would not easily lend their lives. Moreover, it always had a bad impression of humans and saw them as lowly reptiles and ants.

Lu Zhou calmly withdrew his hand. He did not say anything unnecessary and only tonelessly said, "Take care."

Then, Lu Zhou turned around and walked in the air. When Whitzard flew over, he leaped onto Whitzard's back.

The people of the Evil Sky Pavilion exchanged a look. Although it was good to respect the strong, to be tricked by a fierce beast and leaving like that was a humiliation.

However, seeing that Lu Zhou did not intend on taking action or reasoning with the Fire Phoenix, there was nothing they could do or say.

"Let's go," Lu Zhou called out.

"Where are we going, master?"

"Dunzang's Pillar of Destruction."

"Yes."

Everyone bowed before rushing back to their mounts.

At this time, Kong Wen said, "Pavilion Master, please wait for a moment. I'll come after I harvest the life hearts."

Kong Wen rushed down and harvested the life hearts of the iron-armored huge beast. It took him a great deal of effort just to harvest the life hearts.

After a while, Kong Wen exclaimed in delight, "There are six!"

Then, Kong Wen held the life hearts and respectfully presented it to Lu Zhou.

Lu Zhou glanced at them. Then, he took one before he said, "Some life hearts can't be obtained by force. However, even if the iron-armored huge beast was a divine beast, if I wanted its life hearts, it would still have to give them to me."

Fire Phoenix: "?"

Everyone nodded.

Lu Zhou continued to say, "However, these 2,000 silver-armored guards lost their lives in a sea of fire, the Great Void definitely won't let the matter go. However, there's no need for all of you to worry. With me around, all of you will be safe and sound."

Fire Phoenix: "???"

After that, Lu Zhou patted Whitzard softly.

Whitzard let out a small cry before it flew away, shrouded by auspicious Qi.

Lu Wu and Cheng Huang, one on the left and one on the right, looked at the big Fire Phoenix and the little Fire Phoenix. They did not say anything and turned around.

At this time, the Fire Phoenix turned to look at Zhixu's Pillar of Destruction. It was fine if it did not look, but now that it took a look, it saw a figure hiding behind the pillar.

The figure belonged to the zombie king, the Dark Prince, who guarded Zhixu's Pillar of Destruction.

There was no fierce beast that had never heard of the Dark Prince. He was once a supreme beast tamer Although he had turned into a zombie, he still had the power to intimidate fierce beasts and make them submit.

All of a sudden…

"Wait! Wait!"

For the first time, the Fire Phoenix spoke in the human language.

The people of the Evil Sky Pavilion were surprised, but outwardly, they looked calm as they followed Lu Zhou.

The Fire Phoenix spread its wings as flames started to burn and shroud the little Fire Phoenix.

Lu Zhou ignored the Fire Phoenix and said to the others, "We don't have much time. The people of the Great Void should be here soon."

"Master is right. We have to leave as soon as possible."

Everyone nodded.

The Fire Phoenix spread its wings and flew out before it came to a stop in front of Lu Zhou at lightning speed.

"Lend… Lend you…" the Fire Phoenix said.

The people of the Evil Sky Pavilion: "?"

Lu Zhou asked expressionlessly, "You changed your mind?"

"I-I didn't change it… in the first place!" the Fire Phoenix said.

"You can speak the human language. It's not appropriate for you to blame my junior sister for mistranslation, right?" Mingshi Yin said.

The Fire Phoenix looked at everyone arrogantly and said, "Believe… don't believe… Up to you."

The Fire Phoenix's words were stilted and disjointed. It was difficult to understand if one did not slowly connect its words.

"You're quite arrogant. Anyway, don't be all talk and no action. Hurry up and hand over your life heart," Mingshi Yin said as he flew over. There were some things that were not suitable for his master to do so he, as a disciple, would have to help his master. Besides, he had no use for things like pride and dignity.

The Fire Phoenix hesitated for a moment before it let out a few cries again.

Everyone turned to look at Conch.

Mingshi Yin did not wait for Conch and asked, "It's going back on its words again and scolding me, right?"

Conch: "?"

Mingshi Yin continued to say as he stared at the Fire Phoenix, "It's okay. Just tell me! I can tell it's scolding me!"

Conch shook her head and said, "It said that it's willing to lend its life heart, but it's worried master won't return its life heart after using it."

Lu Zhou said indifferently, "I'm not like you. I keep my words."

Little Yuan'er finally could no longer endure it. She had been wanting to speak earlier, but her Sixth Senior Sister had held her back. This time, she flew out and pointed at the little Fire Phoenix and scolded, "It's a waste of time raising you! How dare you and your mother ganged up on my master?! I saved your life and even used the Great Void Seed to nourish you! Don't tell me your life can't even compare to one life heart? Oh, now that you've grown up, you think you're great, is that it?"

"???"

Everyone was speechless.

Little Yuan'er was a beauty that could move one's heart. She was graceful and elegant. However, when she was scolding the little Fire Phoenix, she was really like those middle-aged aunties at the market. Nevertheless, there was not an ounce of lie in her words.

The little Fire Phoenix felt embarrassed when it heard Little Yuan'er's words. It had a good relationship with Little Yuan'er, after all. It was already separated from its mother when it hatched. The kindness of Little Yuan'er raising it was immeasurable. Not to mention one life heart, even a few life hearts could not make up for that kindness.

The little Fire Phoenix suddenly flapped its wings and broke away from its mother's protection. It circled Little Yuan'er as its body grew smaller. When the flames around it vanished, it perched on her shoulder before calling out to its mother.

Fire Phoenix: "???"

Everyone was dumbfounded.

On the contrary, Conch could not help but cover her face and laugh.

The Fire Phoenix looked stunned. It looked at the sky, the ground, the Pillar of Destruction, and the Dark Prince who was hiding and cowering behind the pillar. Then, it nodded. After that, its abdomen moved slightly, and it opened its mouth, spitting out two shining fiery-red life hearts that looked like dragon fruits.

"Two?" Lu Zhou was puzzled, but he did not reject them.

The Fire Phoenix inhaled deeply before it extinguished its flames. After returning to its original appearance, its expression looked slightly dispirited after losing two life hearts.

Lu Zhou patted Whitzard, and Whitzard bleated. As Lu Zhou's mount, it had quite the temper as well.

The Divine Fire Phoenix looked at Whitzard with a slightly embarrassed expression. In terms of status, Whitzard was not inferior to it, after all. It felt slightly uncomfortable because of Whitzard's indifference. Finally, it let out a few cries.

Conch said, "One is for master, and one is for Ninth Senior Sister as a reward for raising the little Fire Phoenix. However, it hope you can return its life hearts as soon as possible. If the life hearts leave its body for too long, they'll lose their energy."

Lu Zhou nodded and said, "Alright. However, this isn't the place to activate Birth Charts."

Conch said again, "It says it can bring us to Dunzang."

"You?" Lu Zhou looked at the Fire Phoenix, puzzled.

The Divine Fire Phoenix spread its wings and flapped them. Unlike before, there were no flames. Its wings spanned thousands of feet, covering the sky.

"Alright. Go with the Fire Phoenix," Lu Zhou said as he looked at everyone.

"Understood."

Ye Tianxin said, "Master, I'll go with Cheng Huang. Cheng Huang has already become a beast emperor. Although it's not as powerful as a divine beast, the Fire Phoenix won't be able to carry Cheng Huang."

Duanmu Sheng chimed in, "Me too."

Lu Zhou thought about it for a moment before he said, "Alright, but the journey will be fraught with danger."

"Don't worry, master. Third Senior Brother and I will look out for each other, and we will avoid confrontations," Ye Tianxin said.

"Alright." Lu Zhou brought out a jade talisman from his sleeve and tossed it over as he said, "This is a Collective Teleportation Jade Talisman. Keep it well."

Ye Tianxin's heart skipped a beat. Then, she stood on Cheng Huang's back and bowed respectfully. "Farewell, master."

Duanmu Sheng bowed as well.

The others, including Lu Zhou and Whitzard, leaped onto the Fire Phoenix's back.

The Fire Phoenix was so big that the people from the Evil Sky Pavilion only took up a small space on its back.

Swoosh!

The Divine Fire Phoenix flapped its wings and rose up. With just a flap of its wings, it covered 90,000 miles, riding the wind into the clouds. In just a blink of an eye, it vanished from sight along with everyone's exclamations of awe.

Then, Ye Tianxin sat on Cheng Huang's back and said, "Let's go, Third Senior Brother, Lu Wu."

"Let's go!"

The two beast emperors leaped 10,000 feet up into the air and flew away.

…

Silence returned to Zhixu's Pillar of Destruction.

The originally lush and verdant scenery was charred black.

At this moment, the Dark Prince crawled out from behind the pillar. He spread his arms and looked at the sky with his eyes that were rimmed with dark circles as he made babbling noises. Then, it ran into a cave like a madman.

After that, the Dark Prince did not come out for a very long time.

…

It did not take long for news of the incident at Zhixu's Pillar of Destruction to reach Jiang Wenxu's ears.

He was enraged after listening to his subordinate's report. He bellowed, "What do you mean by all 3,000 silver-armored guards are gone!?"

"Master, please calm down! The main culprit is the Divine Fire Phoenix. There's nothing we can do about it."

Jiang Wenxu's anger did not abate. "The Silver Guards brought the Demonic Dragon, a divine beast! Even if they could not defeat their opponents, they shouldn't have been completely annihilated!"

There were so many people, it did not make sense that not even one person escaped. Not only that, but even his projection that was created with a high-grade sacred relic had died. He was bewildered.

"What about Jiang Dongshan?" Jiang Wenxu asked.

If he could find Jiang Dongshan's corpse, perhaps, he could extract Jiang Dongshan's memories with a sacred relic and find out what happened.

The subordinate replied, "There's no trace of Jiang Dongshan. However, I received news that the Xuanyi Palace's Dark Guards had a skirmish with a golden lotus cultivator called Jiang Dongshan. I heard a few black-armored guards from the Dark Guards went to the Sacred Hall to demand an explanation. However, I didn't hear about the result."

"The Dark Guards…" Jiang Wenxu grew angry again at the mention of the Dark Guards. He said, "I haven't settled the score with them yet. They killed hundreds of my Silver Guards at Shanyan's Pillar of Destruction, but they dare to look for the Hall Master to demand an explanation?"

After a moment, Jiang Wenxu said, "I'm going to the Sacred Hall."

…

At the same time.

The incident at Zhixu's Pillar of Destruction had also spread to Xihe Hall.

Lan Xihe was bewildered.

"I've only returned to Xihe Hall a while ago from that place. It was normal at that time. Why did the land suddenly split?"

"This is the result of the Sacred Hall's investigation so there shouldn't be any mistake. I heard that all 3,000 silver-armored guards are gone."

"Jiang Wenxu has always been arrogant. Even after suffering a great loss in the golden lotus back then, he's still the same…" Lan Xihe said.

"Master is right."

A smile suddenly appeared on Lan Xihe's face before she said, "Now that 3,000 of the Silver Guards are dead, he won't be able to sit still and will surely look for the Hall Master. Stay here. I'll be right back."

"Yes."

With that, Lan Xihe vanished into thin air.

…

A moment later.

In the Sacred Hall.

The Scales of Justice was further tilted. Once in a while, it would rise and fall again. There was no balance at all.