Heavenfire Mountain.
This mountain housed the Treasure-Forging Sect. Lofty and majestic, it stretched for a thousand miles, with a hundred spirit peaks large and small, each bearing its own name and displaying a different form.
Yet billowing fiery radiance filled every spirit peak, shrouding all of Heavenfire Mountain like clouds and mist.
Within that rolling radiance flowed an ancient, weighty spiritual resonance. Like a mountain anchoring the heavens, it held down the spirit veins deep underground while suppressing every ill intent from the outside world.
Though the Treasure-Forging Sect had languished for many years, it remained a great sect guarded by a Mystic Lord. Its fourth-tier Heavenfire Radiant Array suppressed all threats; any ordinary cultivator who dared offend it would die on the spot.
Among those many spirit peaks was one named Azurefire Peak.
The entire peak was emerald green, its fiery radiance tinged with blue-green. At first glance, it resembled a precious mountain cast from glazed radiance.
At that moment, a blue-green fire cloud carrying a young Qi Refining cultivator and an unremarkable Foundation Establishment Daoist passed through the radiance filling the sky toward this peak.
"Mystic Master, Azurefire Peak lies just ahead."
"My master cultivates here. I dare not make any decision concerning your Treasure-Forging Token on my own, so I must report it to him."
On the fire cloud, the young Qi Refining cultivator bowed and spoke apologetically to Lu Xuan.
"No matter. Let us meet Senior Fang first."
Lu Xuan smiled gently at his words.
Lady Yunxiu still needed to seek an opportunity to nurture her lightning seed. Although their routes overlapped, their destinations were not quite the same, and he would not ask her to make a needless detour to escort him. Thus, two days earlier, he had parted ways with her and come alone