Zhuyan's Divine Domain? The Demons' Cultivation Levels (double-length chapter, requesting monthly votes and subscriptions)

The outskirts of the Stone Spirit Grotto-Heaven.

A blazing golden sun hung high above the desert, bathing the entire Gobi in dazzling gold.

On the desert floor, a crimson furnace burned ceaselessly, like a second blazing sun.

Beneath the furnace, a golden hall struggled to hold firm. A closer look even revealed faint tremors running through it.

Below the hall stood the Golden-Scaled Beast, frantically driving its true essence. Its eyes were resolute, with a hint of stubborn madness.

Under the crimson flames, the golden hall sometimes dissolved into golden spiritual light. Yet each time it melted away, a new hall formed, like a golden qilin standing proudly upright, never to fall.

The Golden Falcon, Peachwood Demon, Stone Spirit, and the others watched from nearby. After all, the Crimson Flame Fox was consolidating its cultivation, and the spirit flame furnace was merely a sliver of its divine domain made manifest.

But the Crimson Flame Fox had used thirty percent of its true essence to power this manifestation, which was no small expenditure.

Had the Golden-Scaled Beast not specifically requested it, the Crimson Flame Fox would never have spared the attention.

That was why, at times, they worried that the Crimson Flame Fox might fail to withdraw its flames in time.

Thus, Zhuyan, the Golden Falcon, and Peachwood all stood guard nearby.

After a long while, the flames surged wildly again, and the hall vanished. The golden Earth-Scale Hall tried to reform, but in the end, it only condensed into golden light before disappearing.

The enormous furnace dispersed as well.

Yet the flames had still been so scorching that they had charred the Golden-Scaled Beast's scales black.

The Golden-Scaled Beast remained silent, settling beside a pure earth-aspected spirit vein and drawing on the high-grade earth-aspected spirit stones there.

With each steady