649. The Twelve Supreme Elders, Clan Leader Huo Tao

"Clan Leader! The pressure of a Heavenly Sovereign! And a fire-attribute Heavenly Sovereign at that!"

"What a domineering flame! It can actually make even this old man's Spiritual Energy feel stagnant!"

"This pressure is at least at the middle stage of Spirit Grade Heavenly Sovereign! Judging by this, the newcomer doesn't come with good intentions!"

The twelve Supreme Elders all slammed the table and rose at once. Their withered palms pressed down one after another on their respective high-grade Sacred Artifacts and Quasi-Peerless Sacred Artifacts. Their faces were filled with gravity and shock, and their gazes all looked towards the city gate, their aged eyes full of vigilance.

Though the Fire Spirit Clan had declined somewhat during the ancient catastrophe, a starved camel was still bigger than a horse.

Ordinary Earthly Sovereigns could only serve as deacons or protectors within the clan.

Only experts above Great Perfection Earthly Sovereign were qualified to become clan elders.

And the twelve fixed positions of Supreme Elder could only be held by the twelve strongest people beneath the clan leader.

The twelve Supreme Elders were arranged according to the twelve Earthly Branches—Zi, Chou, Yin, Mao, and so on. Through secret arts, they stimulated the progenitor Fire Spirit bloodline in their bodies, then refined the Essence Blood of the corresponding divine beasts, cultivating their own lifebound fire spirits and lifebound Divine Fires.

Not only could this increase their chance of advancing to Heavenly Sovereign by a sliver, they could also join forces to lay down a Formation and challenge a Heavenly Sovereign!

There had even been a time, in the distant ancient era...

When the Fire Spirit Clan had been at its peak, all twelve Supreme Elders had been genuine Heavenly Sovereigns. Once they laid down their Formation, they could even contend for a while