Chapter 667: Chapter 631: Crimson Cloud Origin Flame

Shen Xuan contemplated repeatedly and finally decided to go observe the battle.

After activating the Concealing Sky Stone, his form and aura were completely concealed.

Shen Xuan hid his figure, drifting silently like a formless floating cloud over the gates of the Fire Cloud Sect.

At this moment, he unleashed all his perceptive skills, his eyes like lightning, piercing through the mist, landing atop the main peak of the Fire Cloud Sect.

The overwhelming Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi, like rivers converging into the sea, frenziedly surged toward the peak to form a massive Spirit Cloud vortex with a diameter exceeding a thousand zhang.

The center of the vortex directly faced the Grotto Heaven Blessed Land where True Master Primordial Fire was secluded, like the Milky Way pouring back, with an impressive momentum.

Shen Xuan watched for a while, his brow slightly furrowed.

This scene, seemingly grand and magnificent, swallowing the mountains and rivers, but in truth, it was not.

Shen Xuan once observed the entire Transformation Tribulation process of the Purple Yunting Tree Emperor.

At that time, the Purple Yunting Tree Emperor gathered exceedingly pure Spirit Cloud, brimming with vitality, and the Heaven and Earth phenomenon triggered was even more magnificent.

In contrast, the Spirit Cloud vortex before him was large and radiant.

Yet the Spiritual Qi inside rushed chaotically, scattered and disordered, faintly revealing signs of emptiness and instability.

"Spiritual Power is impure, the heart is in chaos. With an unstable foundation, forcing Nascent Soul is ultimately a mirage..."

Shen Xuan pondered silently.

He speculated that True Master Primordial Fire was originally unprepared, hastily attempting Nascent Soul Formation.

The sudden demise of True Master Yanghuo and the disturbances from Mingyu Demon Lord and others further affected True Master Primordial Fire’s mental realm.

In his heart, he predicted the outcome of True Master Primordial Fire’s breakthrough attempt.

It would inevitably return empty-handed.

Indeed, an hour later, the massive Spiritual Qi vortex not only failed to continue consolidating but started to tremble violently.

At the edges, Spiritual Qi gradually dissipated, and the concentration at the vortex’s center began to decrease.

Eventually, the Spirit Cloud in the sky gradually thinned.

No Celestial Thunder clouds appeared, making the Celestial Dao Thunder Tribulation impossible.

Over the Fire Cloud Sect, there was an atmosphere of tranquility.

The Spirit Cloud vortex began to disperse.

Such a celestial phenomenon indicated that True Master Primordial Fire failed at the first stage of "shattering the pill to form the infant" during the Nascent Soul Formation.

The Golden Core couldn’t gestate the Nascent Soul embryo, unable to invoke the Heavenly Dao Rules, so the subsequent Celestial Tribulation Divine Thunder, Heart Demon Soul-Devour, and infant formation stages would never occur.

"Is this all?"

Shen Xuan shook his head.

This was too hasty.

Though the success rate for a Golden Core True Master forming a Nascent Soul is very low.

A normal Golden Core has less than a half percent chance of succeeding.

True Master Primordial Fire couldn’t even pass the first stage, still making Shen Xuan feel

He is a Golden Core True Master, the chief elder of a Golden Core Sect.

The sect rallied their centuries of accumulated resources to support True Master Primordial Fire in the Solidifying Pill challenge, yet he couldn’t even form a Nascent Soul embryo.

The True Masters guarding outside the Grotto Heaven Blessed Land were all feeling downcast, looking at each other in despair.

Just then,

A piercing screech rang out, metal breaking stone, filled with ferocity and rage.

Above in the high skies, a seemingly ordinary black cloud suddenly rolled and boiled, while the magical winged roc spread its enormous wings, tearing through the clouds, swooping down.

Its shadow instantly enveloped half of the Fire Cloud Sect, with its wings stirring up bursts of bone-eroding demon wind, carrying a pungent odor, sweeping toward the main peak of the Fire Cloud Sect.

"The demon bird is here! Activate the array!"

The duty Elder screamed harshly.

"Buzz!"

The sect protection array’s shield quickly lit up, scarlet light flickering urgently.

However, the Spirit Power from the main Spirit Vein for the Fire Cloud Sect’s protection array had been overly depleted by True Master Primordial Fire’s failed Nascent Soul Formation attempt and hadn’t fully recovered.

The protection shield was not as bright and dazzling as before.

The magical winged roc obviously came prepared, with long-held readiness.

Its eyes flashed with disdain, while its sharp claws continuously tore at the sect protection array’s light shield.

Then, its massive beak, glowing with a dim light, gathered faint golden demon power, striking relentlessly at the same spot on the protection shield like a storm.

The Fire Cloud Sect’s spirit shield struggled to replenish Spiritual Power in time, with its light sharply decreasing and operation stagnating.

"Crack!"

Under a heavy blow from the magical winged roc’s massive beak, the sect protection shield emitted a mournful sound, unable to resist the continuous colossal impact, completely collapsing, turning into pieces of Spiritual Light scattered across the sky.

"The sect protection array is broken!"

"Run!"

"Ancestor, save us!"

In the Fire Cloud Sect, terrified screams erupted instantly.

Countless Fire Cloud Sect disciples scattered and fled.

The magical winged roc broke into the Fire Cloud Sect, its powerful demon sense like an invisible net instantly enveloping the entire Fire Cloud Mountain.

It showed disdain for those Low Tier disciples with only weak Spiritual Qi, its demon sense locking onto those Core Formation Realm True Masters.

An elderly True Master with hair and beard all white had just summoned his Magical Treasure, when he was seized by an irresistible force, screaming miserably as he was sucked into the bottomless giant maw.

Next, one Core Formation True Master after another faced the same fate.

These True Masters, who held esteemed positions and cultivated for centuries within the Fire Cloud Sect, were now like lambs awaiting slaughter, utterly powerless to resist.

They were all devoured by the magical winged roc. 𝗳𝚛𝚎𝚎𝘄𝕖𝕓𝕟𝕠𝚟𝚎𝕝.𝗰𝕠𝐦

In an instant, seven True Masters of the Fire Cloud Sect were lost, wiping out their high-end combat power.

With each person devoured, the demon energy emanating from the magical winged roc grew denser, its form seeming to expand, its ferocity increasing.

Disregarding the panicked and fleeing Low Tier disciples below, the magical winged roc lazily flapped its black wings.

Yellowish-brown bone-eroding demon wind rippled out like water waves.

Wherever the wind passed, no matter if they were Qi Cultivation disciples or Foundation Establishment Stewards, the Protective Spirit Light instantly shattered, flesh melted and peeled away, revealing the bare bones beneath, collapsing to the ground.

Soon, in front of the Fire Cloud Sect’s main hall, on the plaza, across the peaks and valleys, countless skeletons lay scattered.