Only a few breaths passed before a figure wreathed in golden light burst from the fireball.
The golden light around him shattered the instant he escaped.
The Immortal Venerable Late Stage cultivator gasped for breath, terror in his eyes.
Only an exceedingly precious fifth-rank defensive immortal talisman had allowed him to escape the fireball by the narrowest margin.
But not one of the others came out.
These experts would never have feared ordinary flames. The fire in that fireball, however, contained terrifying power.
The Golden Immortal cultivators had not even had time to react before the fireball reduced them to flying ash.
A barrier covered the surface of the fireball that had engulfed the entire palace complex, preventing them from flying straight out.
The remaining three attacked the barrier frantically and finally opened a small crack. The Immortal Venerable Late Stage cultivator immediately slipped through it and escaped the fireball.
But the other two Early-stage Immortal Venerables were reduced to ash by the raging flames just as the crack appeared.
After escaping, the Immortal Venerable Late Stage cultivator saw that the crack had already sealed. His junior brother and sister would never come out.
He had no time to think, much less mourn the dead. He turned at once and flew into the distance.
He had never seen flames so powerful.
And they were not the only ones. When the fireballs descended, most of the cultivators inside those ruined palaces remained there forever.
Qin Huaian watched the fiery streaks cross hundreds of millions of li in an instant, turn into fireballs, and hurtle toward the earth.
He knew the voice had been right: the Li Fire Heaven-Burning Grand Array primarily targeted the palaces. This had to be its attack.
After the fiery streaks scattered across the Secret Realm World, something