"Why did it suddenly get so hot?"
"I feel like I'm about to be roasted alive!"
"Heavens!!! Look up!"
Someone screamed until their voice cracked.
Everyone looked up.
Within the purple aura stretching ten thousand miles, crimson flames blazed to life without warning.
Those flames were no ordinary fire.
The moment they appeared, they swept across the land like a prairie fire, igniting the towering vortex of spiritual energy in its entirety.
In just a few breaths.
The entire sky became an inverted Sea of Fire.
The void warped violently beneath that terrifying heat.
The temperature between heaven and earth was rising at a terrifying rate.
Some Li Family Disciples could not withstand the heat.
They were on the verge of being baked to death alive.
Fortunately.
Night-Blooming Cereus Fairy, a Divine Mansion Realm great cultivator who had been stationed in Green Maple Valley and had already broken through to the Mid-stage Divine Mansion, appeared in time.
The spiritual energy within her Divine Mansion World poured forth.
It transformed into enormous seven-colored petals.
They firmly shielded the Li Family members within.
Yet even so.
The heat filtering through that thin layer of seven-colored petals still left countless low-cultivation Li Family Disciples drenched in sweat and parched with thirst.
Night-Blooming Cereus Fairy raised her head and gazed at the terrifying Sea of Fire above the Nine-Layered Spirit Gathering Tower, as though it could burn through even the heavens.
She clicked her tongue inwardly. "What domineering power."
"With such might, once he breaks through, he will surely stand among the very best within the same realm."
"Are everyone in the Li Family truly monsters?"
"Rumble rumble rumble!!!"
Just then.
Another change erupted in the heavens.
Above that Sea of Fire, dense black clouds began to gather. They were tribulation clouds—the tribulation clouds