Roiling flames swept out, wave after wave of searing heat crashing head-on and forcibly halting the many powerful cultivators outside the desert.
The startling change in the Fire Domain had already drawn quite a few people here, all experts from various races. They wanted to know what change of events had occurred in this land steeped in myth.
"Was it that some astonishing treasure had emerged?"
"The Fire Domain has existed for an extremely long time. No one can say where this place came from, yet such a startling change has occurred now."
"When this old man was young, I vaguely recall the Fire Domain seeming to have displayed a similar anomaly. But it was far too long ago; I had nearly forgotten about it."
The speaker was an ancient relic of the Giant Spirit Race in the Body Integration Realm. Gazing at the scene within the Fire Domain ahead, old memories surfaced in his mind.
Those who had arrived were not limited to experts of the Giant Spirit Race. The Flying Spirit Race and Treant Race had each sent experts as well.
However, the Fire Domain's environment was inherently ill-suited to the Treant Race's combat, so more of those who came belonged to the Flying Spirit Race.
The two sides occupied separate areas, faintly giving off the air of a great decisive battle beginning ahead of time.
As for the strange phenomenon that had suddenly appeared in the Fire Domain, everyone naturally wanted to get to the bottom of it.
But the entire desert around the Fire Domain had turned into a sea of fire. No one dared set foot inside lightly. These flames were exceptionally scorching, capable even of igniting their mana and souls.
Such exaggerated flames had previously existed only in the deepest reaches of the Fire