Northern Frontier, Fire Cloud Mountain Range.
From deep within the Fire Cloud Mountain Range came wave after wave of earth-shaking roars, flames soaring into the heavens.
In a valley deep within the mountain range, where paths branched in every direction, two men and one woman were besieging a gaunt, fair-skinned elder in green robes. More than a dozen corpses lay on the ground, all of them dried husks whose essence blood appeared to have been drained away. Over a dozen magic treasures with dim spiritual light were scattered across the ground, along with many broken formation flags.
The green-robed elder held a feather fan glowing with Seven-Colored Spiritual Light. With a gentle wave, a swath of seven-colored light flew forth. Every spell that struck it collapsed like spring snow beneath the sun, unable to approach the green-robed elder.
The green-robed elder was covered in wounds, his face pale.
"Ouyang Hongguang—no, I should call you a fiend. You have nowhere left to run. Surrender without a struggle, and we may yet spare your life."
A tall, ruddy-faced Red-Robed Elder shouted sternly. Several hundred years ago, Ouyang Hongguang, the Ouyang Family's Fifth Elder, had been possessed by a fiend. The fiend had snuck back into the Ouyang Family and stolen one of its three great clan treasures, the Seven-Colored Phoenix Feather Fan. Ouyang Hongsheng had wounded the fiend, who had fled into the Fallen Immortal Ice Field to escape pursuit.
Several centuries later, the fiend had reappeared in the world and broken into the Tomb of the Puppet Emperor, only to be discovered by the Nascent Soul Cultivators guarding it. Afterward, the Nine Serenities Sect, Three Flames Palace, and Sacred Talisman Palace had jointly offered a reward of ten million Spirit Stones for the fiend's capture.
"Hehe, surrender without a struggle? Do