[However, you had personally experienced Red Cloud's changes, so Mo Luan's memories could not alter your judgment. In your view, even if everyone else who entered the Golden Sand Tide had undergone normal trials, the oddity of this Golden Sand Tide truly differed from what you had learned through the Time Soul Pearl. This difference, coupled with Red Cloud's situation, convinced you that something must have happened to Red Cloud!]
[Same year, three months after you refined Mo Luan's Time Soul Pearl, somewhere along the direction Azure Sky had flown after leaving the Xing Qi Great Mountain Region, a hand with no flesh or skin, only skeletal claws, thrust out from underground. Gradually, such bony palms became two, three... until they covered the entire forest.]
[Among them, utterly different from the other white claws, was a pair of bone claws filled with a sacred aura. Looking upon them felt like beholding all the beauty in the world. Their owner was none other than the seventh ruler of the Red Cloud clan name, whom you had encountered several times and kept buried deep within your heart to this day.]
[As this figure crawled out from underground, the other bone spirits, including him, began growing flesh and blood at a rate visible to the naked eye.]
[In the blink of an eye, a team of twenty-six people, led by Red Cloud's inheritor, appeared in this forest. Yet soon after, apart from the two Spirit Clan members closest to Red Cloud, the bodies of the other twenty-four all burst like fireworks, flesh and blood spraying across the ground...]
[Feeling the worsening state within his body, Red Cloud no longer spared even a shred of attention for the other twenty-four people he had enslaved. He only wanted to leave with the two guards at