Previously, Gu Yuan's master, He Ling True Master, once solemnly told Gu Yuan.

In this Thousand Flame Mountain, aside from the red clouds formed by the converged poison of fire and fiery evil gases in the sky, as well as the various fire demons born within, there are also several dangerous areas.

One of them is this fire crow swarm.

Fire crows are fire attribute demon birds, relatively common, yet extremely troublesome.

Because these demon birds are social animals, not only do they excel at fire magic divine techniques, but also when encountering an enemy, they often unite and fight together.

Ordinarily, fire crows are generally slightly stronger than the innate martial masters among humans, knowing some fire feather techniques, fireball techniques, and similar magic.

The demon fire they exhibit, although unbearably hot, can melt gold and dissolve iron; yet ordinary celestial human realm cultivators, as long as they are well-prepared, can manage to fight two or three, even more.

However, when the number of fire crows increases, it's a different story; they often transform in quality through quantity.

Once their numbers reach three to five hundred, the fire crow swarm can often unleash more powerful fire element divine techniques, and the demon fire's power boosts by ten or dozens of times.

Magical artifacts and refined gold-like substances caught in it can easily be burned to ashes, even great cultivators with golden core must flee at the sight, or else face the risk of falling.

If the number of fire crows reaches thousands, or even several thousand, it becomes even more daunting.

The overwhelming fire crow swarm can even obscure the sky and the sun, forming a special formation called the fire crow array, and even the Yin Spirit giants cannot escape!

Moreover, these demon birds have one advantage—which is also a major disadvantage.

That is, the fire crows have a violent temperament and hold grudges easily.

Previously, He Ling True Master and others suffered a significant loss.

When passing by a volcano, one of Gu Yuan's peers, a disciple from Medicine King Mountain, found a nearby fire crow's call too unpleasant, too noisy, and killed it casually.

Well, that just stirred up a hornet's nest.

The fire crow let out a harsh and piercing "caw" before dying, and the call awakened a nearby fire crow swarm.

Then the entire fire crow swarm became enraged, all rushing over with caws.

Initially, He Ling True Master and others tried fighting while retreating, but soon, the person who first killed the fire crow and several other disciples directly fell, burned to ashes by the demon fire.

Even He Ling True Master and a few others suffered some injuries, and everyone had to exert much effort to narrowly escape with their lives.

And this swarm of fire crows was merely four to five hundred strong.

As for the fire crow swarm in front of Gu Yuan, upon a rough glance, there are even more, densely covering the cliff, almost everywhere.

From time to time, a few larger fire crows worked together to drag other demon beasts into their nest.

Gu Yuan even saw a demon beast, dark red and long-haired, resembling a pig and a cow with a single horn, being grabbed by several fire crows with wings spanning two to three zhang, dropping it in a nest at the center of the cliff.

The demon beast was as large as a wild bull, muscles knotted, yet under the claws of several fire crows, it couldn't struggle free, and upon a pitiful and gruesome howl, one of the fire crows pecked its mouth, altering its sound.

"Fortunately, I didn't disturb this fire crow swarm."

Gu Yuan wiped the imaginary sweat off his forehead, doing his utmost to restrain his aura, presence, minimizing his existence, and quietly withdrew from this area, planning to bypass it.

He reckoned he had some skills, but wouldn't dare to act rashly here—he couldn't afford to provoke them, especially considering it's their territory.

Gu Yuan's swordsmanship is commendable, but even so, if he were a man of iron, how many nails could he fasten?

Not to mention thousands of fire crows; even if two or three hundred came, they could effortlessly tear him apart.

Caw caw caw! Caw caw caw!

A few fire crows flew past Gu Yuan, one holding a wriggling strange worm in its beak.

The worm almost touched Gu Yuan's arm, and as for the fire crow, it seemed to notice something; lifting its neck, it swallowed the worm whole, tilting its head to glance around.

Seeing no anomalies, it flapped its wings and flew away.

Gu Yuan's cold sweat was frightened out, seeing them fly off, he hastily retreated, fleeing at the first opportunity.

It's not that he lacks courage; if he truly disturbed this fire crow, and it called out, waking the swarm, an overwhelming surge of fire crows rushing in, he truly couldn't resist.

Caw—!

Just as Gu Yuan withdrew from the area, he heard a slightly peculiar sound.

This sound was somewhat similar to other fire crows, but the call was more resonant, clear, and carried a faint aura of nobility.

Gu Yuan instinctively turned his head for a glance and saw a pale gold fire crow emerge from the depths of the nest at the center of the cliff, smaller than other fire crows by a size.

This fire crow had pale gold feathers all over, seemingly more slender, its neck longer, adorned with a black ring, and three raised golden feathers atop its head, exquisite beyond compare!

The tail had several pure golden feathers, like burning golden flames, adding a touch of elegance and dominance to its aura.

Like the king among crows, the ruler among birds!

"Wow, Fire Crow King?"

Upon witnessing this scene, Gu Yuan ran even faster.

To him, rather than a Fire Crow King, this fire crow seemed more like a descendant of a divine bird with awakened bloodlines.

Just at seeing the long golden feathers on its tail, especially the burning specks of golden fire, he felt a tinge of pain in his eyes, as if staring at a blazing sun.

This caused a name of true flame to spring into Gu Yuan's mind—Taiyang True Flame!

This is one of the ancient six innate true flames, originating from the sun, the ultimate yang and firm, the strongest and fiercest innate true flame, immensely powerful, capable of incinerating everything.

More terrifying is that it's a great divine technique!

Hmm, far more formidable than Gu Yuan's cultivated "Void Moon Reflected Sword Formulas" and "Mirror Flower Water Moon" divine techniques.

Maybe only by forming a first-grade golden core would he have the chance to cultivate the prototype of this great divine technique.

And within countless great divine techniques, this Taiyang True Flame even stands as top-notch!

And the bird capable of cultivating such divine technique, Gu Yuan thought hard and knew that apart from the legendary Three-legged Golden Crow, there might be no other bird.

Hence, the golden fire crow just now clearly awakened the bloodline of the legendary divine bird, Three-legged Golden Crow!

Of course, compared to the so-called true dragons and divine phoenixes, such mythical creatures are even rarer and elusive.

In some people's eyes, the phoenix, famed as the king of birds, seems slightly inferior compared to the Three-legged Golden Crow.

Gu Yuan didn't expect, amid this large fire crow swarm, such existence could emerge.

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