Flame Alliance Withering and Flourishing, Thundercloud Key

Jade Cauldron Domain, in the heart of the southwestern region.

There were two great immortal cities in this area: Flame Sun Immortal City and Great Light Immortal City.

Yet neither of those immortal cities was the protagonist of this region.

The Flame Alliance was the southwestern overlord!

Unlike the other Golden Core Great Sects of the Jade Cauldron Domain, though the Flame Alliance had its own heritage, its internal cohesion was not particularly strong.

The reason was that this sect had not arisen from an orthodox sect inheritance in the first place.

It had been a loose cultivator force established long ago by a Golden Core Immortal from another domain.

After displaying extraordinary brilliance in the Founding War four hundred years ago, this faction's prestige had only grown greater and greater.

Especially within Incense Burning Valley!

That Golden Core Immortal had, by chance, discovered a Source-less Fire—the Wither Bloom Strange Fire!

With that fire as its core, the faction changed its name and became the Flame Alliance.

Just as its name suggested, when the Flame Alliance took root in the Jade Cauldron Domain, it absorbed countless cultivators from sects that had fallen into ruin during the Founding War.

That was how it became an alliance.

And the ties binding them together were undoubtedly the immense profits brought by the artifact-forging trade, as well as the Wither Bloom Fire that involved changes in lifespan.

Rumor had it that if one could refine a wisp of this fire into one's body, a Golden Core Immortal could gain several dozen extra years of lifespan!

Such a heaven-defying thing naturally made countless Golden Core Immortals troubled by dwindling lifespan flock to it like ducks.

It was even said that the Flame Alliance, a force little different from a loose cultivator alliance, had been able