Legend of the Great Sage Chapter 888 - Outbreak

On the main peak of the Fire Melt mountain, in the centre of the magnificent, scarlet palace, was a place akin to a small garden. The divine wutong tree was planted there. Its bark was red like fire, and its leaves were like flowers, layered together to form a huge canopy. Although it was nowhere close to the Great Banyan Tree King in size, it was still an extremely grand sight to behold. It shone with a pure, crystalline glow.

The scarlet branches wove into a huge bird’s nest. That was where the phoenix had once roosted. It was where the noble, divine bird had once rested, sung, rebirthed, and ascended.

When the phoenix flew away, it had once hesitated about leaving its nest behind. That was a fact that no one knew.

The three Fire Devouring Kings sat beneath the divine wutong tree, each wielding a Divine Fire tablet. Their auras were interlinked and inseparable, constantly training and practising together in their seas of consciousness.

It had already been ten days since the major eruption. To them, it was almost as short as an instant, but after this “instant” had passed, they basically all felt a shadow being cast on their minds at the same time. They opened their eyes and looked at one another.

What had happened?

Fire devourers were not skilled at divination, but at their cultivation, they obviously had a slight, profound sense over the obscure existence of fate.

And what they sensed right now clearly was not some auspicious omen.

Before long, a shaman priest in fiery-red robes rushed into the sacred little garden and reported to the three kings that a clansman had died.

“Where did he die?” Zhu Fen frowned and exchanged glances with Zhu Zai and Zhu Yan. The death of a clansman clearly was not enough for the shaman priest to specially interrupt their cultivation.

“At the foot of the mountain.”

“How did he die? Did something go wrong with his cultivation, or was he fighting with someone?” Zhu Fen frowned even harder. Within the vicinity of the mountains, he could not think of a third way of dying apart from these two situat

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