The Third Awakening ghost-faced serpent possesses mental poison and is also incredibly fast and adept at hiding in water. Its combat abilities rank among the strongest within the Third Awakening.
Yet under the claws of phoenixes, they have no ability to resist; they are caught and eaten immediately.
The phoenixes even spat out the bones, tearing off the skin and flesh and discarding the bones into the River of Flames, where some bones slowly drifted downstream with the current.
The ghost-faced serpents constantly charged downstream, but in this vast river, they were continuously preyed upon by the phoenixes. Very few managed to escape past the Giant Forest section of the river.
Chen Guan and the others suddenly realized that if the phoenixes hadn't hunted these ghost-faced serpents, allowing so many of them to reach downstream into the section of the river in the Qilin Mountain Range, the Qilin Corps would be in danger.
