Though it was clearly not a particularly loud sound, at this moment it distinctly drowned out the terrifying boom of the pill furnace explosion, as though countless pill furnaces had exploded inside her head!
Senior Yuanjun and... Senior Spirit Ancestor?
Just as she was feeling utterly bewildered, she saw the wave of flames created by the exploding pill furnace suddenly collapse and contract inward.
Almost the instant she noticed something wrong with the blast's fiery wave, the crimson flames that had originally blanketed the sky, carrying an aura of withered decay and deathly stillness, had already vanished without a trace.
Only an incredibly tiny speck of Red Radiance remained, quietly hovering on the pale, slender tip of a finger like a peeled scallion root. It seemed to contain boundless heat within it, enough to make one's heart tremble.
And at that moment, the elegant woman with white gauze covering her eyes was looking at her.
The aura she did not bother concealing was merely at the early Spirit Transformation stage, on par with Ye Zhiwei's own, yet it made Ye Zhiwei's hair stand on end and her scalp go numb.
A founding patriarch?!
It was only an Immortal Sect Grand Competition. Was there any need to go this far?!
No wonder that bastard Chi Jiuyu had run so fast.
Ye Zhiwei cursed inwardly.
As a prodigy of World Relief Valley, it was not as though she could not recognize the appearances of the founding patriarchs. But who could have imagined that, for nothing more than an Immortal Sect Grand Competition, the founding patriarchs would personally enter the fray?!
In an instant, she made her decision!
She immediately stirred that thread of true flame hidden within the void and linked to her consciousness, preparing to take the initiative and activate the