On the Phone Plane, cultivators accustomed to traveling knew that moving too fast was not always a good thing.
Why had the Rong Clan, Springwatch Valley's foremost family a thousand years ago, fallen into ruin? Wasn't it because their Golden Core Peak ancestor had slammed straight into a Peak Qi Condensation cultivator while traveling?
A mere Peak Qi Condensation cultivator had severely injured a Golden Core Peak cultivator in a collision—where could one even go to reason that out?
The Peak Qi Condensation cultivator had been flying rapidly in the opposite direction and was instantly smashed to pieces, but the Rong Clan ancestor had been left with only a breath of life. Then their enemies came knocking, and the Rong Clan, which had once possessed three Golden Cores, was crippled outright.
Fortunately, the Rong Clan still had several Golden Core talisman treasures. After their descendants scattered and fled, they gradually gathered again. They were currently attached to Pine-Cypress Peak, with seven or eight Emergence from Dust Stage cultivators in the family.
Fine, the Rong Clan's history was not the point. The point was... traveling at extreme speed really was damn dangerous.
But the Red Phoenix Sect's "Crimson Rainbow Movement" travel method ignored such dangers. You could just ram straight through them.
So having a somewhat exaggerated appearance did not matter.
In fact, the manifestation of the Scarlet Rainbow Movement Technique greatly helped boost one's combat strength—declaring from afar that "a Golden Core is coming" was more intimidating than anything else.
Of course, Crimson Rainbow had one drawback—it consumed far too much spiritual energy.
It had to be fast, and it also required a special protective shield to keep its user safe. Naturally, its spiritual energy consumption would be higher.
Therefore, Crimson Rainbow had never been used for long-distance travel. A