A mountain range ran through the middle of Golden Swallow Island, where New Sea Commandery was located. At its heart stood a volcano, sealed by the commandery's great clans and noble houses with formations and restrictions, allowing them to draw upon its earthly fire and fire-vein resources.
Yet at the same time, this volcano could be called the most unstable dangerous factor in all of New Sea Commandery.
When Liang Zhaohuang and the others had attacked Golden Swallow Island, what they had guarded against most was the possibility that the island's several sects would detonate the volcano and perish together with them.
Now that Liang Zhaohuang and the others occupied this island and controlled New Sea Commandery, what they guarded against most was likewise the volcano being detonated.
And this was precisely the method enemies were most likely to think of, and most likely to employ—to destroy New Sea Commandery City and sow devastation and chaos.
Liang Zhaohuang remembered that when he had emerged from seclusion previously, and his Phoenix Dharma Aspect had soared above New Sea Commandery City, scattering Five-Colored Fire Rain to purge the hidden enemies, he had clearly seen through the Dharma Aspect that enemies had already reached the crater. They had been fighting the Li Family Golden Core True Person stationed within the volcano. It was clear that the enemies intended to tamper with the volcano, triggering an eruption or even detonating it outright.
At the same time, Liang Zhaohuang also remembered that several decades ago, demonic cultivators and demon slaves had taken advantage of New Sea Commandery's weakness to infiltrate the volcano on the island. They had tampered with it, sending an egg-shaped object that seemed to be the fruit of Red Dragon Wood into the earthly fire magma beneath the volcano.
After New Sea