New Sea Commandery City had been built encircling the Golden Swallow Mountain Range. At the range's summit stood an active volcano, but over many years, the commandery's great clans had laid down all manner of formations and Restrictions to Seal and suppress it, drawing upon its fire vein for their own use while preventing any eruption.
The area around this volcano was also a key site guarded by the great clans of New Sea Commandery City. Golden Core True Persons from the various clans led people in guarding it year-round.
After all, if anyone tampered with the volcano through even the slightest lapse, triggering an eruption, New Sea Commandery City, built all around it, would suffer disaster. The great clans would inevitably sustain grievous losses.
Recently, however, as Liang Zhaohuang's Nascent Soul banquet drew nearer by the day, more and more guests had arrived in New Sea Commandery City. Amid such a mixed crowd of dragons and snakes, quite a few people with ulterior motives had slipped in, stirring up trouble and chaos throughout the city.
Thus, the great clans of New Sea Commandery had largely focused their attention on the city itself, maintaining peace and stability within New Sea Commandery City.
As for the volcano, vigilance there had gradually slackened.
On this day, several figures concealed their tracks and forms as they gradually lurked beneath the volcano. They furtively peered upward. After a long while, one of them took out an azure-gray pill, formed hand seals, and cast an art. Green smoke gradually rose from the pill, dissipating invisibly into the air as it drifted toward the volcano above.
When the disciples of the various great clans guarding the volcano realized something was wrong, they had already fallen victim to it. One after another, they collapsed to the ground.