Everything outside the formation was filled with firelight. Even the formation itself emitted dull sounds like glass shattering beneath immense pressure.
Many Fire Spirit Clan elders could not withstand the tremendous pressure and spat blood, yet they still held on desperately. Not a single one gave up.
If even one person failed to hold on, the consequences would naturally be catastrophic.
The same was true even for the Fire Spirit Clan Leader, a genuine Heavenly Supreme expert.
The sleeves around his arms were ignited by the blazing flames. The destructive fire nearly pierced through the Clan Protection Great Formation, only to be forcibly held back by his hands. Beneath his burned-away sleeves, the Fire Spirit Clan Leader's hands immediately turned charred black, too horrible to look at.
"Clan Leader?!"
"It's nothing! Elders who can no longer hold on should take turns recovering their breath and resting. I'll make up for this part of the formation—"
His voice trembled faintly, but it did not hinder the Fire Spirit Clan Leader's decisiveness.
"How can we, descendants of the Fire Spirit Clan, let the Clan Leader bear this alone?!"
"We are willing to live and die alongside the Clan Leader!"
As those words fell, not only did the elders with Earthly Supreme cultivation step forward, even the younger generation at the Supreme level raised the Clan Protection Great Formation above their heads.
What could not be filled by strength would be filled by their own bloodline.
The Fire Spirit Clan Leader had no time to lament. Everything before him was so scorching that it seemed capable of melting all things, leaving him no leisure to think of anything else.
Until a moment later, just as the Fire Spirit Clan's Clan Protection Great Formation was about to collapse, he suddenly heard a deep