The Undying Volcano, the iconic sacred mountain of the Southern Continent, was also the homeland of the Phoenix Clan.
If Mount Sumeru was the Western Ancestral Vein, then the Undying Volcano was the Southern Ancestral Vein.
Unlike Mount Sumeru, however, the Undying Volcano was an active volcano. Earthfire churned within it year-round, erupting from time to time—a sign of disorder in the earth veins.
Clearly, the southern ancestral vein was extremely unstable. With even the ancestral vein in such a state, the earth veins throughout the south were none too stable either.
This had created the Southern Continent's many complex and ever-changing environments, such as sprawling swamps and hot, humid terrain. Its surroundings were treacherous, fraught with danger, and difficult to develop.
Thus, the Southern Continent was the most barren continent after the Northern Continent.
Of course, why was the Southern Continent, with even its earth veins in an unstable state, still richer than the Northern Continent?
Much of the credit belonged to the Phoenix Clan.
The Phoenix Clan lived at the Undying Volcano and made it their homeland, and the volcano's earthfire was extremely important to them.
The Undying Volcano's earthfire offered some assistance to the Phoenix Clan in comprehending southern bright flame.
Moreover, the more earthfire accumulated, the more fire-aspected natural treasures it could nurture, and the higher their quality would be.
Earthfire also had many other benefits.
In short, the more earthfire, the better.
Yet every eruption of the Undying Volcano consumed earthfire. How could the Phoenix Clan stand for that?
Thus, the Phoenix Clan regularly put the Undying Volcano's earth veins in order, making them more stable and better able to accumulate earthfire.
Furthermore, the Southern Continent was the Phoenix Clan's core territory, so they also tended to its earth veins.
Hence, although the Southern Continent's