Bombardment

Outside Baihe City.

Despite Yanliu True Immortal joining forces with three other True Immortals in a desperate attempt to destroy the Xuanxian corpse in the Hongyun Sect's cave, he was ultimately blocked by the cautious Feihong True Immortal.

Several fiery phoenixes, imbued with terrifyingly high temperatures, surged forth and engulfed them.

Even though they manifested in the form of true immortals, like giants from myths and legends, with every move containing the power to destroy mountains and cities, they still could not escape the fate of being burned to ashes by the blazing phoenix.

"Crimson, my Heavenly Fire Sect will not let you get away with this!"

With a roar of unwillingness, the strongest True Immortal Yanliu followed in the footsteps of the other True Immortals who had been killed before, and was devoured by the four blazing phoenixes that screamed as they arrived.

"Heavenly Fire Sect, it's all your fault! You ruined my grand plan! If you had arrived six months later, my cave heaven would have been completed and bearing the Heavenly Dao. How could my Red Cloud Sect have fallen to this state?! One day I will become a Dao Lord and completely overthrow your Heavenly Fire Sect!"

The Crimson Immortal's eyes were also filled with boiling flames.

He relied on the bloodline sealing method to maintain a portion of the Heavenly Dao's power within his body after his ancestor's death, essentially using his body as a vessel for the Heavenly Dao.

However, this method is inherently difficult. It is better when the Heavenly Dao is not activated, but once the Heavenly Dao is activated, one can only choose to gamble everything.

For example, previously...

"Quickly! Repair the cave at full speed!"

Crimson Immortal gave an order to the other Void Immortals and Mahayana Saints of the Crimson Cloud Sect. Then, as if he had thought of something, a cold glint flashed in his eyes. "The moment when the spiritual fluctuations of any living being are most intense is the fear before death... I need a large amount of spiritual energy to condense into spiritual energy to prevent the Flame Heavenly Dao from dissipating immediately after activation... Issue my order! Slaughter White River City!"

This order caused a stir among many elders and disciples of the Red Cloud Sect.

Before they could object, Crimson Immortal reached out and clenched his fist, causing phoenixes to disperse and form hundreds of smaller phoenixes. Although these phoenixes were not as large as those that had killed Flame Flow Immortal, they were more than enough to refine some ordinary Dao-proving immortals and Mahayana saints.

"Didn't you hear my order?! At this point, we have no choice but to do everything in our power to forge the cave heaven and merge it with the Flame Heavenly Dao! If I fail, everyone in the Red Cloud Sect will be relentlessly hunted down by the Heavenly Fire Sect and even the entire Flame River Dao!"

The Crimson Immortal shouted loudly.

The other elders and Mahayana practitioners were jolted awake and realized the consequences.

In this great battle, which faction—the Heavenly Fire Sect, the Dragon Sword Sect, or the Wind and Rain Pavilion—didn't suffer the loss of immortals?

These members of the Red Cloud Sect truly had no way out.

Upon realizing this, an elder suddenly roared, "Blood sacrifice for White River City!"

"No matter what, we must cultivate our own grotto-heaven and maintain the Flame Heavenly Dao!"

"Survival of the fittest. If we don't want to die, then others have to die."

The other elders, protectors, and disciples echoed their sentiments, and with a turn of their bodies, they rushed straight towards Baihe City, which had a population of over ten million.

Just then, a sudden ripple of shock came from the horizon, as if some terrifying being was rushing toward Baihe City at an extremely fast speed.

"There are also those who are not afraid of death who want to use their lowly lives to deplete the power of my Flame Heavenly Dao."

Anger surged in the eyes of the Crimson Immortal. With a sudden wave of his hand, hundreds of fiery phoenixes soared into the sky, forming a fiery cloud stretching for hundreds of miles, obscuring the sun and flying towards the direction from which the thunder came.

"Want to die? I'll grant your wish!"

"Call out!"

At the edge of the sky, a flash of silver light seemed to appear.

"Boom!"

Further away, thunderous sounds came, forming a continuous chorus that never ceased.

"This speed... is this the incarnation of a celestial being!?"

Crimson Immortal's expression changed.

However, he was not too panicked.

As he reached out and clenched his fist, the halo behind him, burning with intense flames, once again projected a large amount of light, which poured into the fiery phoenixes.

Amplified by the power of the Heavenly Dao of Flames, the Fiery Phoenixes, which had originally shrunk to fifty or sixty meters in size, suddenly surged in power, instantly growing to a hundred meters in size. The power emanating from each Fiery Phoenix was no less than that of a True Immortal.

This is the power of an amplified Heavenly Dao!

It can amplify the Crimson True Immortal, who is already a supreme True Immortal, to a level comparable to a high-ranking Celestial Immortal, or even a top-tier Celestial Immortal.

This means that as long as he moves the cave heaven that carries the Heavenly Dao of Flames to the entrance of a cave heaven similar to those of the Dragon Sword Sect or the Wind and Rain Pavilion, and can receive the amplification of the Heavenly Dao due to the proximity, even if he forcibly breaks into cave heavens like the Dragon Sword Sect or the Wind and Rain Pavilion where there are Heavenly Immortals guarding them, he may be able to break through them in one fell swoop.

"Boom!"

Thunder pierces the sky!

The silver light that seemed capable of shattering the heavens and earth, which came from the horizon, crashed hard into one of the fiery phoenixes. In an instant, it was like an electromagnetic cannonball hitting a towering building hundreds of meters high.

With a violent explosion, the fiery phoenix was blasted in half at the waist, scattering into a myriad of flames.

Flames shot out in all directions, like molten lava erupting from a volcano, falling towards an area of dozens of miles in radius.

Destroying this fiery phoenix was just the beginning.

The silver light that shattered the sky twisted, like a chain of lightning, and once again blasted towards the second fire phoenix with incredible speed, followed by the third, the fourth, the fifth...

"Bang! Bang! Bang!"

The powerful Fiery Phoenix, comparable to a true immortal, was pierced, collapsed, and shattered one by one by the bombardment of this silver lightning.

The shockwave from the impact swept in all directions, carrying the flames from the Fiery Phoenix and igniting the ground below the battlefield into a sea of fire.

This moment belongs to the True Immortal level...

Or rather, the destructive power of this world, belonging to the Heavenly Dao system, has finally been revealed.

Flames burned, leaving the land scorched for miles!

This great battle will likely reduce the entire surrounding area to ashes.

"This power..."

Crimson Immortal's eyes widened. Although he was surrounded by the Heavenly Dao of Flames, and the surrounding temperature was enough to melt steel, he still felt a terrifying chill creeping up his heart.

Feeling the increasingly dimming Heavenly Dao of Flames behind him, he gritted his teeth and said, "Even if your Celestial Incarnation is incredibly powerful, without a grotto-heaven, I still don't believe you can withstand my Heavenly Dao of Flames."

The next moment, he clasped his hands together.

Hundreds of fiery phoenixes behind them began to merge continuously.

At the same time, a dazzling radiance was once again projected from the flame halo behind him, pouring into the fiery phoenixes and making their radiance extremely intense.

In the distance, Gu Jinlai, who was blasting away at the fiery phoenixes, noticed something.

The Crimson Immortal was not using her own power at all, but rather the power that the Divine Phoenix Immortal Lord had left on the Heavenly Dao of Flames.

Since the Heavenly Dao of Flames is like a rootless duckweed, its activation is thanks to the Heavenly Flame Twelve Rings of the Heavenly Flame Sect's continuous energy output for six days.

If Crimson Immortal continues to use the power of the Flame Heavenly Dao will eventually collapse due to the exhaustion of its energy and the lack of something to support it after he defeats these Flame Phoenixes.

"We can't let you keep wasting your time."

Gu Jinlai, people have made their decisions.

He took a step, and the eternal core within his body shone brightly, its blazing and dazzling light carrying a tsunami-like energy that filled his body.

Suddenly, his body rose rapidly...

Two hundred meters, three hundred meters, four hundred meters, four hundred and ninety meters...

He went straight into his strongest burst state under normal circumstances.

In an instant, it seemed that every cell and acupoint of his body was filled with blazing, brilliant flames, and his eyes, mouth and other parts of his body released an intense white light that was impossible to look at directly.

It's as if a dazzling sun is hidden within him.

A terrifying energy surge emanated from his body, its power...

This caused the Crimson Immortal behind them to widen her eyes in surprise.

"High-level Celestial Immortal... near-top-tier power!?"

How is that possible?!

There are no other caves or grottoes nearby!

Even if a celestial being's incarnation leaves the grotto-heaven, at most they can only unleash the power of a peerless true immortal, or at most an ordinary celestial being.

Only those powerful immortal lords can temporarily incorporate the Heavenly Dao into their bodies and travel with Heavenly Dao.

However, separating the Heavenly Dao from the cave and incorporating it into the body requires several times more spiritual energy to maintain the power of the Heavenly Dao normally. Unless it is to carry out an extermination against a certain force, no immortal lord would do such a thing.

"Impossible... Who is this Immortal Lord?! The Heavenly Fire Sect?! The Heavenly Fire Sect has no Immortal Lord at all!"

Crimson Immortal gritted her teeth, her heart filled with resentment.

Why? He only wanted to build a celestial paradise here, so why are there so many unexpected changes happening time and time again?!

"So what if you're a high-level Celestial Immortal?! Even if you are a high-level Celestial Immortal, you will have to pay the price if you want to destroy my Red Cloud Sect! Explode!"

"Boom!"

Before the fiery phoenix, which had been struck by thunder Gu Jinlai, could be defeated, it exploded violently.

In an instant, it was as if a small sun had been lit up in the void.

Endless radiance and blazing flames shone brightly and dazzlingly, carrying high temperatures and intense light as they impacted the bodies of people from Gu Jinlai.

Its power...

It is comparable to a hydrogen bomb explosion with a yield of several million tons.

"Die! Die! Die!"

Crimson Immortal roared in fury.

Behind them, the Heavenly Dao of Flames continuously shot out streams of light, pouring into the blazing phoenixes. The remaining blazing phoenixes also cried out, rushing one after another towards the direction where Gu Jinlai was.

Each time it approached his body, it would self-destruct, filling the void with Gu Jinlai heat and intense light, making that area seem as if it were being bombarded by millions of tons of hydrogen bombs.

"That is my Heavenly Dao of Flames, and I will not allow you to squander it like this!"

Just then, a powerful spiritual force, filled with oppression, emanated from the flames and intense heat.

Immediately afterwards, the terrifying flames that were rushing towards and detonating the hundreds-of-meters-tall phantom seemed to be bound by an invisible force and gradually compressed...

At the same time, a terrifying figure over nine hundred meters tall was gradually revealed as the intense flames and light compressed it.

The intense flames and light scattered by the continuous self-destruction of the Fiery Phoenix rapidly contracted, gradually...

Bound in the hands of this towering and enormous figure, it was as if a miniature sun, only a few dozen meters in diameter, had condensed in the center of his hands.

Seeing this terrifying, shocking, and subversive scene, the expression on Crimson Immortal's face froze instantly.