As the Dou Qi Continent's people gradually rose to prominence, Xiao Yan began turning his gaze toward the more distant north.
He had incorporated a large portion of the vast territories once occupied by the Flame Demon Clan into his Endless Fire Domain.
However, Demonic Qi permeated most of these lands. Never mind ordinary living beings-even Sovereigns and Earthly Sovereigns would struggle enormously to survive there for long.
Even with Xiao Yan's vast powers, purifying the Demonic Qi throughout the Flame Demon Clan's entire territory would not be easy.
However, Xiao Yan had long since devoured all of the Flame Demon Clan's Demon Emperors. He had even killed most of their Demon Kings, who were equivalent to Earthly Sovereigns, leaving only a handful of Flame Demon Clan members clinging to life in these territories.
Xiao Yan had no intention of exterminating them all. Leaving these Sovereign- and Earthly Sovereign-level members of the Extraterrestrial Evil Race for the Endless Fire Domain's experts to hone their skills against was far more suitable.
To that end, Xiao Yan had even worked with Hun Miaomiao to explore the art of artifact forging, combining various precious materials with all manner of arrays.
Using the Sun Furnace as the foundation and finally adding Xiao Yan's insights into the way of flames, they forged another Peerless Saint Relic.
Xiao Yan named this Saint Relic the Chaos Furnace.
After all, this Peerless Saint Relic had been built by incorporating the structural framework of Xiao Yan's Chaos Furnace Divine Ability into an artifact.
The Chaos Furnace itself was a Spirit Grade Peerless Saint Relic, but, like the Spirit-Gathering Clan's two supreme treasures, it possessed an astonishing function far more valuable than that of ordinary Peerless Saint Relics.
That function was... demon refinement!
It could use the power of the