Gurgle, gurgle...
The magma pool grew hotter and hotter, already reaching a temperature capable of smelting magical artifacts. Like a boiling beef-tallow hot pot, it had several heads bobbing inside it, resembling five black handmade beef balls and one white fish ball floating in the broth.
One beef ball with side-swept bangs rose first. She was a somewhat masculine-looking woman, and her eyes were filled with pain. "I can't take it anymore. I'm leaving."
Meng Yuheng, who sat at the very front with his eyes closed in meditation, suddenly spoke. "Do you remember how Brother Yue toyed with you? The Heavenly Nether Earth Mother Cult is one of the Five Great Immortal Sects, yet a Northern Sky independent cultivator played you like puppets and turned you into a complete laughingstock."
"It wasn't just our sect that became a laughingstock. Which of the Five Great Immortal Sects hasn't lost to him?" Xie Ping, the woman with side-swept bangs, said weakly.
"True, plenty of people laugh at the Heavenly Nether Earth Mother Cult, but hardly anyone laughs at you," Meng Yuheng continued. "Do you know why? Because no one remembers who you are! You're just one of the many Immortal Sect disciples Brother Yue trampled underfoot, not even worthy of having your name mentioned! Even when people online talk about the strongest Side-Swept Bangs now, they only remember the one at Brother Yue's side!"
"Ah!" A fierce fighting spirit flared in Xie Ping's eyes once more. "I refuse to be a nameless nobody with side-swept bangs!"
They were currently in a cultivation ground within the Southern Sea Dragon Hall called Dragon Flame Valley, which had been passed down since ancient times.
When cultivators immersed their entire bodies in it, the power of dragon flame would continuously temper their sinews, bones, flesh, and