Cloud Sea of Heaven-Reaching, Sacred Fire Cliff.
To this day, few within the Sacred Sect knew what had happened. They only thought one of their True Lords had gone mad and gone out to fight a True Lord from the Sword Pavilion.
The only ones who truly understood the situation were Great True Persons at Foundation Establishment Perfection.
Hongju was one of them.
"Puh!!!"
Inside a quiet chamber, Hongju suddenly spat out a mouthful of blood. He felt a certain wondrous essence rooted in his bloodline dissipating at a visible rate.
"Impossible!?"
Hongju stared blankly at the blood he had spat out. It should originally have carried a pale golden tint, yet it had now turned a glaring crimson red.
"The True Lord... is dead?" Hongju stood there in a daze. He had been created when Daoist Hongyun—or rather, when Heavenly Fortune Radiant Light True Lord had still held his position—used his own essence blood to enlighten and shape him, ultimately making him a Great True Person at Foundation Establishment Perfection. Thus, a trace of Gold Nature had always remained within his bloodline.
Yet now, that strand of Gold Nature had scattered!
There was only one possibility for this to happen: Heavenly Fortune Radiant Light True Lord, Daoist Hongyun, the source of that Gold Nature, had suffered utter destruction of body and soul!
But how could that be possible?
How difficult was it to kill a True Lord? With Gold Nature protecting the soul, even if they fell from their Fruit Position, they could still enter the cycle of reincarnation and easily escape from the hands of other True Lords.
Unless the two sides were not in the same realm.
But how could that be? As far as he knew, the several Golden Core True Lords in the Sacred Sect