Across the horizon, an immense magical artifact tore through the air like a golden banner hanging from the heavens.
Mountains and rivers, the sun and moon, and countless stars were engraved upon its surface. Its patterns flowed, steeped in the weight of ages.
The auras of several eighth-tier powerhouses burst from the banner without the slightest restraint, instantly alerting Saint Son Feng Wei, Red Cloud, and the other demon cultivators who had already arrived.
Caiyun looked at the enormous banner suspended in the air and curled her lip. "Li Hong never changes. He carries that Cloud-Reaching Banner everywhere, afraid the whole world might not know about him."
The Cloud-Reaching Banner was Li Hong's innate spirit treasure.
Rumor had it that when Li Hong was born, this treasure had formed beneath his tongue.
The banner contained a vast heavenly grotto capable of sheltering hundreds of thousands of living beings. It also possessed a supreme defensive divine ability that cultivators of the same tier could scarcely shake.
With this spirit treasure, Li Hong could often secure an invincible position in battle.
Li Hong hailed from the Golden Cang River. Although its territory lay outside Southern Shu proper, bordering Yingzhou, its lineage belonged to the demon race, so cultivators throughout the Southern Region regarded it as a Southern Shu demon faction.
The Golden Cang River also possessed a fruit status-bi shui, which governed the courses of rivers and the circulation and transformation of water.
Of the five virtues in this world, each had four fruit statuses.
Water virtue alone had three accounted for: Can Shui of Azure Sea Lake, bi shui of the Golden Cang River, and ji water of Heavenhorn Well.
The golden banner trembled lightly. Like beans being scattered, sixty or seventy thousand Dao soldiers poured out of it and landed