A blood-red Formation shrouded the entire city of Shuihuo.
The temperature in Shuihuo City kept rising.
"Ghost Separation Fire?"
"Ghost Separation Fire!"
"What's going on? Why is there Ghost Separation Fire this time of year?!"
"Where's the rain? Where is the Profound Soul Rain?"
Ghost Separation Fire surged endlessly from the ground.
Any cultivator below the Golden Core Realm who was touched by Ghost Separation Fire would be engulfed in flames, burned until both body and soul were annihilated.
Cultivators above the Golden Core Realm could resist it, but only by expending vast amounts of Spiritual Energy. Once their Spiritual Energy ran dry, they would die here too.
Only those who had reached the Nascent Soul Realm could escape that fate.
But the problem was, how many Nascent Soul Realm cultivators could there be among the Zhao Kingdom Army Li Mu had brought?
Some soldiers tried dousing the flames on themselves with water, but ordinary water could not put them out. It was like pouring oil on the fire, making the flames burn even more fiercely.
At the same time, a gigantic blood-red Formation appeared above Shuihuo City. Hundreds of thousands of souls trapped within it wailed and faded away, eventually becoming fuel for the Formation.
"Bai Qi!"
Li Mu furrowed his brows and gripped the long sword in his hand.
How could he not understand what was happening?
Though he did not know what kind of Formation Bai Qi had used, Bai Qi had taken the people of the entire city as sacrifices to set it up, bringing the Ghost Separation Fire forth ahead of time!
"General! This Formation is incredibly strange. It has actually merged with the entire city of Shuihuo. Without being activated, it was impossible to detect."
At this critical moment, a formation master from the