For now, let us leave aside the entanglement between Baiyun True Lord and Old Ghost Huangquan. At the ruins of Sun Cave Heaven, more than a dozen Golden Core cultivators were still locked in a chaotic melee.
However, the fighting between them seemed much milder. It had not reached the point of life and death; at most, they were exchanging a few moves and probing one another.
Golden Core cultivators were different from Foundation Establishment Cultivators. It was very common for Foundation Establishment Cultivators to risk their lives for an opportunity at Core Formation, but for Golden Core cultivators, advancing another step was far too difficult, and ordinary resources could hardly bring them much improvement anymore.
Even legendary heavenly treasures, or anomalous flames like the Solar True Fire, still could not bring Golden Core cultivators much of an increase.
Added to that, they had lifespans of several thousand years and plenty of time to gather all kinds of cultivation resources, so Under Normal Circumstances, situations where they fought with their lives on the line rarely occurred.
The battle between the dozen-plus Golden Core cultivators revolved around the twelve Lava Divine Generals. Of course, their target also included the Solar True Fire, as well as the vessel carrying the Solar True Fire—the True Sun Staff.
The True Sun Staff was a Spirit Treasure of a grade above Spirit Artifacts. Nine Sun Refined Gold served as its bones, the middle section cut from the Fusang Divine Wood as its body, and a Golden Crow's Primordial Spirit as its catalyst. After being scorched by the blazing sun for ten thousand years, it had obtained the source of the Solar True Fire.
The most precious treasure within Sun Cave Heaven was precisely this True Sun Staff.
What the twelve Lava Divine Generals guarded was