"Master, Tianzhao's place of seclusion is just ahead."
After flying more than ten million li, Li Qingyuan and the others arrived amid a range of mountains.
Barren hills, sand dunes, the Gobi Desert, oases, riverbeds, and rolling mountains lay scattered about, without any sign of life-not even any Five Elements Demon Foxes.
For a million li around, everything was deathly still.
Old Zhao pointed somewhere. "Master, First Imperial Prince Tianzhao has set up a barrier here, laying restrictions that isolate his presence."
"This man has quite a few tricks. He is all but hailed as the next successor to the Heavenly Emperor."
"The barrier he set up with a Law Treasure has no flaws discernible to anyone below the Heavenly Immortal level."
Tianzhao had used some ancient secret treasure as the array eye to establish the barrier, concealing heaven's secrets and masking all traces. Without a Heavenly Immortal primordial spirit, sensing it was utterly impossible.
Li Qingyuan raised his hand and struck, summoning Southern Bright Illusory Fire.
"Little Li, burn away this turtle shell and force them out."
"Screee!"
Little Li flew out.
She transformed from a little red bird into a Vermilion Bird divine beast, growing to a hundred zhang, a thousand zhang, ten thousand zhang, and even beyond a hundred thousand zhang.
Her wings blotted out the sky and sun like blazing clouds. The Vermilion Bird divine beast's true form stretched across the heavens like a blazing sun suspended in the sky.
The divine bird, tens of thousands of zhang tall, obscured the sky and sun.
She gave a long cry and spat out Southern Bright Vermilion Bird Illusory Fire.
This was an innate divine fire that, after being refined by the Vermilion Bird progenitor of High Antiquity, had become the hallmark of the Vermilion Bird Clan's Immortal