When Huo Hai appeared above the Sacred Mountain, quite a few people had already rushed out from the barrier below. Especially the twelve among them, whose bodies gleamed with golden light like oversized lightbulbs.
Huo Hai frowned. The aura of power on these people seemed strangely familiar. It was clearly the power of the sun, yet the method by which they absorbed and combined it was so bizarre. Most importantly, the Crystal Cores within these twelve people gave Huo Hai an extremely strange feeling—illusory, as though they might dissipate at any moment.
Huo Hai did not know what was going on, but he did not ask. Even if he did, these people would not tell him. "Heh, another method for rapidly increasing one's cultivation. They really went to great lengths."
Huo Hai had already seen through it. This was a means of rapidly raising one's cultivation in a short time. Though their cultivation had increased, there were surely flaws. Setting everything else aside, breaking through to the Spirit Venerable Realm was likely impossible.
"Sinner! You dare trespass upon the sacred grounds of the Sacred Mountain? Kneel at once and repent. The Great Sun True God may yet forgive your sins!" The leading golden figure shouted sternly at Huo Hai. The people around him found nothing strange about it; rather, they acted as though it were only natural. Even the other ordinary Spirit Emperors felt the same way.
The corner of Huo Hai's mouth curled up slightly. These people were truly amusing. "Are all of you this idiotic? I've already fought my way to your doorstep, yet you're still standing here spouting nonsense." These people truly were fanatical religious lunatics.
"Sinner! You remain stubbornly unrepentant! If you do not turn back, divine punishment shall descend and grind you to dust!"
Huo