Demon Domain, deep within the Burning Heaven Mountains.
This place was shrouded year-round in roiling black demonic clouds. Rivers of scorching lava, like the veins of the earth, wound and surged through crimson mountains.
At the very heart of the mountain range stood a colossal palace carved entirely from dark crimson demonstone. This was the mountain gate of the Burning Heaven Demon Sect, foremost among the Demon Domain's ten great super sects!
At this moment, the atmosphere within the Burning Heaven Demon Palace was grave.
More than sixty figures stood solemnly in two ranks along either side.
There were forty-three Blue Demons and twenty Red Demons. The weakest among these sixty-three had early-stage Demon King cultivation. Any one of them, if placed outside, would be a being capable of dominating an entire region and making countless living creatures tremble.
All sixty-three were elders of the Burning Heaven Demon Palace. With more than sixty Demon Kings in a single sect, its status as the overlord of the Demon Domain was beyond question.
At the end of the hall, upon a throne atop nine steps of black jade, sat a figure.
He had handsome features and an unhealthy pallor to his skin. He wore armor formed from blue wings, while his eyes were a pure dark red, as though two clusters of demonic flame that would never be extinguished burned within them.
Merely sitting there quietly, he exuded an invisible, suffocatingly terrifying pressure that blanketed the entire hall.
He was the Burning Heaven Demon Sect's sect master and the Demon Domain's universally acknowledged strongest expert—Fen Jinxiao!
"Sect Master!" A tall, gaunt elder stepped forward from the crowd, his voice hoarse. "In recent years, that human Dragon Soaring Sect has grown increasingly overbearing. Their reach has extended too far, and they have already