The first time Samuel Chalmers shielded her from the Fire Thunder needs no further mention; it was because she intended to eradicate the system created by the Heavenly Dao, and it sought to stop her.
But what about the two times after that?
With the addition of this instance in Lloyd Village, those hundreds of Heavenly Thunder that descended aimed entirely to obliterate her.
Combined with Elias Quinn’s "warning," it’s hard not to think—
Was it because she twice invoked the Phoenix Power that didn’t belong to her?
Is this the "power" Elias wished for her to control?
In the past, she would have thought the so-called Phoenix Power was merely the force emanating from the Demon Talisman crafted using the Phoenix Feather.
But in the past two days, she became uncertain.
She even doubted whether her ability to invoke the Phoenix Power again, and thus attract the Heavenly Dao’s attention, might be because...
Could she possibly be the "vessel" the Hearne Lineage her mother spoke of?
Scarlett Jennings couldn’t come up with an answer, but until her strength was enough to contend with the Hearne Lineage, she didn’t plan on actively pursuing the answer.
Even if it came to negotiating terms, it should be under conditions of equal strength.
Currently, she was only Six-tailed.
Facing Aaron Hearne or even the Hearne Clan backing him was far beyond her reach.
...
The sudden appearance of Elias Quinn didn’t stir much commotion for Scarlett Jennings or the villagers of the Artefact Village.
Scarlett Jennings still remained in the village with Samuel Chalmers. With the gathering of Spiritual Objects in the Artefact Village, along with the Heavenly Thunder strikes and the intentionally gathered Spiritual Energy by Samuel, the village was recently brimming with Spiritual Energy, suitable not only for cultivation but also for recuperation.
This Clear Sky Mountain had suddenly attracted a stranger.
His name was Jack Wright, an adventure streamer.
Claiming to be an adventure streamer, he didn’t have a vast number of followers.
The main reason for coming here was because of the recent disturbances in the mountains last week.
Hundreds of lightning bolts relentlessly struck the mountains; though nothing was caught on film, many online speculated about a transcendent undergoing tribulation in the mountains.
But Jack Wright wasn’t here to find some transcendent.
He was on a quest to find dragons!
"That day, it’s said the initial discovery of a fire in the mountains led firefighters to find an unconscious couple. Once taken down the mountain and questioned, it turned out they were the arsonists! They’ve been detained now~."
Jack Wright’s tone carried unmistakable schadenfreude when mentioning the detained couple.
He held his equipment, explaining as he ventured up the mountain.
Being young and fit, he climbed and chatted with his streaming viewers without showing any sign of breathlessness, discussing the information he gathered before coming,
"This couple’s arson isn’t all there is. Can you guess why they were in the mountains? It’s because they were abducting children!"
At the mention of child abduction, the viewers who had been criticizing the mountain arsonists intensified their verbal assault.
Child traffickers deserve no less!
Jack Wright let the online users vent for a while before taking back the narrative,
"Don’t worry, the child wasn’t taken. They initially lured the child into the mountain but were thwarted by someone who rescued the child. In their anger at failing, the trafficker couple set fire to the mountain. Luckily, the mountain fire didn’t spread..."
Here, he paused intentionally, wearing a mysterious expression, signaling his regular audience that he was about to introduce the main topic.
"Today, as I bring you into the mountains, you absolutely won’t guess what we’re after this time!
Based on my visits yesterday and what the villagers at the mountain base said, there’s a dragon in these mountains!"
He continued,
"According to the young firefighter who rescued the people that day, the couple of traffickers kept insisting that there was a giant snake in the mountains, and it could fly. It had even knocked them unconscious. I figured, isn’t that a dragon!

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