The bird-beast was scarlet all over and looked like an enormous sparrow, with a pointed beak and a long tail. It was roughly the same size as the Phoenix Bird Chen Jue had seen.
With every beat of its wings, scarlet flames surged from its body and spilled into the clouds.
Though it soared through the sunset clouds, the giant bird looked as though it were itself burning, making the scarlet clouds around it appear even more vivid!
"A sparrow's body, red feathers, and the appearance of a crimson phoenix!"
"The red fellow the Phoenix Bird mentioned was actually a Vermilion Bird!" Chen Jue was astonished by the sight.
As the saying went, Tai Chi gave rise to the two principles, and the two principles gave rise to the four symbols. The four symbols referred to the four great stellar regions the ancients had divided into east, west, south, and north, from which the images of the four divine beasts had developed: the Azure Dragon of the East, the Southern Vermilion Bird, the Western White Tiger, and the Black Tortoise of the North.
The images of these four divine beasts were deeply ingrained in every ordinary person, so Chen Jue was equally shocked when he saw this Vermilion Bird emerge from the sunset clouds.
This was a divine beast of legend, a cosmic life-form at the peak of the Transcendent Level, just like the Phoenix Bird and Bai Ze.
When the Vermilion Bird soaring high above noticed signs of another bird-beast in the air, it gave a delighted cry and flapped its wings to draw closer.
Chen Jue could feel waves of heat rolling off it. A layer of flame seemed to burn over the scarlet feathers covering the Vermilion Bird, but although it resembled fire, it was not actual