Great Scenery Plains, Du Wang City.
The Chen Household had sealed its mountain and made no move since. No one knew when it would emerge again.
The city remained prosperous, merchants coming and going amid streams of carriages and horses. Without the immortal clan's former oversight, many people felt a mixture of joy and worry.
Xu Xuan arrived outside the city and saw the towering gates. The words "Du Wang" looked down on passing travelers, unchanged.
"Liang Yong has been hiding here all these past three years?"
Fan Qingzhu had gathered the information and told Xu Xuan, who had come specifically to meet this Rogue Cultivator from the north.
Liang Yong and Fan Qingzhu had both been at the eighth level of Qi Refining back then, and both had received a Gift of One Mound Pill. Three years had passed, and Fan Qingzhu had successfully reached the ninth level of Qi Refining. Liang Yong was no mediocrity; his cultivation must surely have advanced as well.
Xu Xuan had never underestimated him. This scar-faced man was clearly no ordinary Rogue Cultivator, and the lineage he cultivated was rarer still: the path of "Ultimate Fire."
Before they came here, Tiantuo had already explained the strengths and dangers of this lineage to Xu Xuan.
"Ultimate Fire" excelled at breaking formations and burning cities, advancing unstoppably whenever it stirred. It was the extreme nature of the five fires, refusing allegiance to Greater Yang, opposing the position of Bing Fire and Li, and drawing close to Spirit Thunder.
According to Tiantuo, this lineage was mostly found in the Eastern Sea, under the Dragon Palace. For someone practicing it to appear in the Li Kingdom, Liang Yong must have quite a background.
Xu Xuan entered the city without delay. Concealing his aura, he went straight to