Primordial Era: I, Hongyun, take charge of the literary path

"Phew, we're safe for now."

Hongyun breathed a sigh of relief, but his expression did not relax, because he was not truly safe yet.

Although the Cangwu Mountains can block divine senses, the Phoenix Clan must have special methods to track him down.

Having repeatedly underestimated the Phoenix Clan during their battles with Huo Feng and his group, Hong Yun dared not harbor any more illusions.

Although the phoenix tree's aura was mostly blocked in the Hundred Herbs Diagram, a faint fluctuation still emanated from it. The Phoenix Clan, who are extremely sensitive to the aura of the Bing Fire phoenix tree, will find it sooner or later.

"We must find a way to completely mask the scent of the paulownia tree," Hongyun said, frowning.

Next, Hongyun sat cross-legged and immersed herself in the Hundred Herbs Painting, carefully observing the condition of the paulownia tree.

At this moment, Hongyun discovered that the phoenix tree was merging with the Hundred Herbs Diagram. With each merging, the grade of the Hundred Herbs Diagram would increase by one point, and the aura it emitted would decrease by one point.

Hongyun made a few calculations with her fingers, and a hint of joy flashed in her eyes. As long as the Hundred Herbs Scroll broke through to the top-grade acquired spiritual treasure, it could completely conceal the aura of the phoenix tree.

With the Wutong Tree, a superior innate spiritual root, suppressing it, the Hundred Herbs Scroll has already transformed into a superior acquired spiritual treasure. As long as the Wutong Tree fully merges with the Hundred Herbs Scroll, its breakthrough is a foregone conclusion.

Based on the current fusion speed of the phoenix tree, it will take at least three days to fully fuse, but three days is enough time for the Phoenix Clan to dig him out of here.

"Three days... then let's stick with it for three days!"

Hongyun gritted his teeth and began to set up a defense, taking out all the array flags he had ever crafted.

Afterwards, Hongyun set up one array after another around the cave, including maze arrays, illusion arrays, killing arrays, and trapping arrays, layer upon layer, with more than a dozen layers.

These formations vary in strength, ranging from Golden Immortal level to Taiyi Golden Immortal level. Although they cannot hold off a Taiyi Golden Immortal for too long, they can at least buy him some time.

After setting up the formation, Hongyun began refining the Ice Soul Divine Thunder, the more of this one-time use magic weapon the better.

Refining the Ice Soul Divine Thunder requires Nine Heavens Profound Ice, a material found only in the Nine Heavens Gang Layer. Hongyun had previously collected some, enough to refine a hundred or so.

Without hesitation, he immediately began refining the Ice Soul Divine Lightning, studying the upgraded version as he went.

Time flies, and the fog in the Cangwu Mountains seems to have grown even thicker.

The Fire Phoenix and the Golden-Winged Roc searched through the thick fog for two days, but still could not find any trace of the Red Cloud.

After entering the Cangwu Mountains, the aura of the phoenix tree became extremely weak, appearing and disappearing intermittently. Even with special supernatural abilities, they found it difficult to pinpoint its location accurately.

"Continuing to search like this is not a solution."

The Golden-Winged Roc said somewhat irritably.

On the other side, Fire Phoenix pondered for a moment, then suddenly a glint of light flashed in her eyes. She gritted her teeth and said, "He must be hiding somewhere, concealing his presence with formations and restrictions. If we can't find him, then we'll force him out!"

The Golden-Winged Roc asked, "How do you force me?"

"Burn!" Fire Phoenix coldly uttered a single word.

"Burn down the Cangwu Mountains? You're insane! You've triggered an ancient killing formation here. We're doomed."

The Golden-Winged Roc exclaimed in surprise, "Who doesn't know how dangerous the Cangwu Mountains are? You're going to set the mountains on fire?"

"Hmph, I don't care about that anymore."

The fire phoenix snorted coldly, then spread its wings and spewed out a huge pillar of fire.

The pillar of fire shot into the sky, transforming into a rain of fire that showered down on a region of the Cangwu Mountains.

The golden-winged roc cautiously surveyed its surroundings, ready to flee at the first sign of trouble.

Wherever the Phoenix Fire passed, the thick fog was dispelled, the trees were burned, and the rocks were melted.

At that moment, the entire mountain range trembled.

The Golden-Winged Roc waited for a long time, but the ancient killing formation of the Cangwu Mountains was not triggered.

"Golden-Winged Roc, what are you waiting for? Make your move! It seems the ancient killing formation here has become ineffective."

Seeing that the Fire Phoenix had indeed not triggered the killing formation, the Golden-Winged Roc followed the Fire Phoenix's example, spewing out streams of golden flames that turned a large area into a sea of ​​fire.

The other three powerful avian beings joined in at the command of the Fire Phoenix, and the five flames intertwined, completely igniting the western region of the Cangwu Mountains.

Although the cave where Hongyun was located was protected by an array, the surrounding temperature was still rising rapidly.

Seeing this, Hongyun realized that Huofeng was using this clumsy method to force him to show himself.

"Trying to force me out?"

"Let's see who loses their temper first."

Hongyun sneered and buried himself in refining the Ice Soul Divine Thunder. He had already refined three hundred of them, and with the ones he had previously stored, he had a total of about five hundred.

Five hundred Ice Soul Divine Lightning bolts detonated simultaneously; even a Great Luo Golden Immortal would have to temporarily avoid their brunt.

Half a day later, the fire phoenix's flames had reached the vicinity of the cave where Hongyun was located.

"Haha, I found you!"

Fire Phoenix's eyes suddenly lit up as she sensed a faint fluctuation of an array not far ahead.

Sensing something amiss, the five figures simultaneously lunged in that direction, continuing to spew flames to scorch.

Fire Phoenix's senses were correct; the array set up by Red Cloud could not completely isolate external detection.

Especially under the scorching heat of the Phoenix True Fire, the fluctuations of the array's restrictions became much more noticeable.

The next moment, five figures appeared almost simultaneously above the cave. The Fire Phoenix looked down at the formation below, a cold smile on its lips.

"Hmph, you've kept it well hidden."

"Unfortunately, I still managed to find it."

Without wasting words, he unleashed a crimson-gold flame that struck the formation directly.

Boom, rumble—

The outermost layer of the maze collapsed instantly under the impact of the Phoenix True Fire, turning into countless fragments.

The second layer of illusion array followed, but it only lasted a few breaths before being burned through by the Phoenix True Fire.

But when they reached the third killing formation, the situation changed; it was a sword formation primarily based on ice.

After the formation was triggered, countless blue sword energies flew out from the formation and shot towards Huo Feng and the others.

Seeing this, the Fire Phoenix snorted coldly, flapped its wings, and blocked all the sword energy.

But the power of the killing formation is not limited to this.

After the sword energy was blocked by the Fire Phoenix, it instantly transformed into a sword array, trapping the Fire Phoenix and the others within it.

A hint of disdain flashed in the Fire Phoenix's eyes. "Arrogant! You think a mere killing formation can trap me?"

Fire Phoenix unleashed its full power of Phoenix True Fire, and the terrifying flames instantly burned the sword formation to shreds.

But in that brief moment of delay, Hongyun had completed the final preparations. He refined another hundred Ice Soul Divine Lightning Bolts, bringing the total number to eight hundred.

Inside the cave, Hongyun stood up. The eight hundred Ice Soul Divine Lightning bolts hovered in front of him, emitting a cold, eerie blue light that flickered with his breath.

Hongyun took a deep breath, put all the Ice Soul Divine Lightning into his sleeve, and then took out a pill and swallowed it.

The pill was golden in color and emitted a faint medicinal fragrance; it was the Bursting Yuan Pill refined by Hongyun.

This Exploding Yuan Pill is a seventh-grade pill, with quality approaching that of an eighth-grade pill. Its effect is to increase cultivation level in a short period of time.

This is a significant improvement, raising one's magical power by three minor levels. With Hongyun's current magical power, this would directly elevate him to the peak of the Taiyi Golden Immortal realm.