Following Xiao Yan's instructions, the Endless Fire Domain returned to its former tranquility. Within Flame Emperor City, millions of experts from the Dou Qi Continent quietly cultivated the spiritual energy within their bodies.
The few experts who had entered the Sovereign Realm ventured beyond the Volcano Continent to hunt experts of the Flame Demon Clan, honing themselves while using the Chaos Furnace to transform their demonic qi into pure spiritual energy.
Xiao Yan had buried a Super Spirit-Gathering Array beneath Flame Emperor City. With the Spirit Clan stationed here and able to control the Eight-Direction Spirit God Array and the Super Spirit-Gathering Bowl, cultivating amid the city's concentrated spiritual energy was not as convenient as directly absorbing Sovereign Spirit Liquid, but its effects could fully rival or even surpass those of ordinary superpowers.
Probably only the inner sanctums of powers on the level of the Five Great Ancient Clans possessed places with environments comparable to Flame Emperor City.
Thus, during these first few years, most experts chose to cultivate quietly in seclusion. Once their strength approached what it had been on the Dou Qi Continent and they encountered bottlenecks that were difficult to break through, there would still be time to venture out and temper themselves.
Life grew peaceful once more, and amid that tranquility, Xiao Yan chose to enter seclusion on an island near the Volcano Continent that housed an enormous volcano.
The towering volcano rose a hundred thousand feet into the sky. Inside, seemingly endless magma churned, threatening to erupt. Once it did, it would spell disaster for half the living creatures on the island. Of course, such a disaster posed no threat whatsoever to Xiao Yan.
For him now, an environment like this was practically no different from taking a bath.
"Primordial true flame, just how far