Intense firelight lingered over the Heavenly Phoenix Oasis, the enormous furnace hanging in the void like a five-colored blazing sun.
Even the black clouds of the lightning tribulation seemed to turn crimson at that moment.
"Master." The Crimson Flame Fox looked at Ye Jingcheng and bowed with its paws clasped.
It still had not taken human form, so it looked rather comical.
But Ye Jingcheng knew that these beasts had refused to take human form simply because they feared he would send them elsewhere in the Lineage to stand guard alone once they did.
Rather than reigning as kings or patriarchs, his five spirit beasts preferred to stay in the Grotto-Heaven, watching the red sun rise and set each day as they looked forward to their master's Treasure Radiance and spirit pills.
"Focus on weathering the tribulation." Ye Jingcheng was still somewhat worried about the Crimson Flame Fox.
Unlike the Jade-Scale Flood Dragon and the Golden-Scaled Beast, the Crimson Flame Fox lacked tough flesh and thick scales. In his eyes, its physical strength might not even match that of some mid-fourth-stage demon kings.
Its only advantage was its ability to control fire.
Of course, Ye Jingcheng now found the Crimson Flame Fox's Heavenly Fox Furnace exceptionally wondrous.
It had become far more tangible than it had been at the fourth stage.
Had he not known where the furnace came from, Ye Jingcheng would have thought it was a fifth-stage magical treasure someone had refined.
Rumble!
At last, the lightning tribulation descended.
The furnace opened, and a golden bird surged out of the five-colored flames, swooping toward the tribulation lightning.
This bolt was far thicker than those of Ye Qingfeng's tribulation, but amid a violent rumble, it was blasted apart. At that moment, the remaining flames began shifting from golden-red to