Hearing the announcement, Jiang Ping An frowned.
He had only just broken through to the Immortal Lord Realm and had planned to focus on consolidating his cultivation. He had not expected a refining trial to come out of nowhere.
And everyone was required to take part.
Jiang Ping An released his Divine Sense into his training ground Identity Token and searched for information on Underwater Flame Mountain.
He soon found something useful.
Underwater Flame Mountain was a strange mountain range that burned beneath the sea.
Its origins traced back to the ancient fall of a massive divine refining ship. The Divine Ship's core furnace had not gone out when it sank to the seabed. Instead, it had merged with the spiritual fire in the earth's veins and become a raging divine flame.
The fire was extraordinary. Water could not extinguish it. After tens of millions of years, it still blazed, casting a blood-red glow across the entire sea.
When the place was first discovered, the major powers fought over it in a frenzy. Countless cultivators died in the slaughter, their blood staining the whole sea red.
To prevent endless conflict, several major powers reached an agreement. They turned the site into a public Holy Land for refining, set up restrictions, and divided it into zones for fire cultivators and Refining Masters.
Now it had become a prized cultivation site nearby. Entry came at a steep price, and the major powers controlling it had amassed vast wealth from the fees.
The Nether King Ship had been one of the powers that drafted the agreement.
Jiang Ping An was puzzled. Refining Masters were not combat cultivators. What was there to test?
If they were only competing in forging skill, they could do that at the training ground. Why insist on going to