In the northwest of Linhai Prefecture lies this not very prosperous city - Anyuan City.

Because it is located in the northwest, the climate is harsh, the cold wind is howling all year round, and it is covered with ice and snow, so it seems to be a little closed.

The main reason for its isolation and backwardness is actually the mountains.

A mountain can turn a city into a fortress that is easy to defend and difficult to attack.

But the mountains also hindered the development of the city. Because if you want to be rich, you must connect and communicate with other places, and to put it bluntly, you must have trade with other places.

And where there are mountains, it is naturally more difficult to build roads than where there are no mountains.

So, at this time, the mountain becomes a kind of obstacle.

The northwest of Linhai City is bordered by Dongcangzhou in the north. The border between the two states is actually a series of mountains.

The mountains extend to the south, that is, when they reach the territory of Linhai Prefecture, the mountains gradually become gentle.

And Anyuan City is located in this relatively low mountain.

Although the city is not as full of buildings as Pyeongchang City, there are many merchants.

But it has its own, a kind of temperament unique to the ancient city.

It is the kind of temperament that is still tenacious after being devastated by wind and sand. This kind of temperament is a temperament that can never be understood or learned in a comfortable and hedonistic city like Pyeongchang City, and the vicissitudes of life are tough and tough.

And what makes the people of De'an Yuan City most proud is not the ancient city itself, but a large sect in its northwest, the Hellfire Sect.

The Hellfire Sect has a long history, and no one can say exactly when it existed.

But if you're an inquirer, you want to know when it originated. Then the person who is asked will only tell you vaguely: it has been there since ancient times.

Indeed, it actually existed in antiquity. To be precise, the second half of antiquity, that is, about 7,000 years ago.

More than 7,000 years ago, a large area of frozen and barren mountains stood quietly on the border between Dongcangzhou and Linhai Prefecture, just like today.

However, there is one mountain range among these mountains that is the most abrupt.

This so-called abruptness is not because of its low height, but because of its fiery red mountain.

And in the midst of this fiery red mountain, there is a towering giant front, which is the most dangerous.

Ordinary people simply can't climb and conquer it, and not just because it's so tall and treacherous.

At the end of the day, you'll find out that it's a volcano that is ready to erupt at any moment.

At that time, the volcano was not as mild as it is now.

Almost every year it erupts in anger.

Once, when the violent volcano was in a frenzied rage, he saw the location of the crater on the top of the mountain, and violently spewed out several dragon-like magma.

However, what no one saw was that several large red stones also slid down with the magma to the bottom of the mountain.

Strangely enough, these rocks were not melted by the terrifying heat of the magma.

Since then, this low, yet fiery red mountain has changed dramatically.

There will be no more year-round snow on it.

Because the temperature of the entire Red Mountain Range intersects, the surrounding mountains have risen by leaps and bounds.

Later, the mountains are covered with lush vegetation and endless primeval forests.

The melting snow and ice have even formed streams and waterfalls that shouldn't have existed.

The mountains, which may have been slightly red due to the high temperature in the mountains, seem to have been cooled by the clear mountains. They gradually faded from their abrupt fiery redness.

The giant peak in the mountain range has gradually gentlered, and the number of eruptions has decreased significantly before they intersect.

I don't know how many years later, a small sect that could not be excluded and migrated from it has been stationed here ever since.

At that time, the sages of the Hellfire Sect were excited to discover that this was an excellent place to cultivate the Flame Vitality.

Because the air here is not only fresh, humid and refreshing.

Most importantly, there is an element in the air that they have always dreamed of—the element of fire.

The so-called flame element can actually be understood as the flame element, which is actually the fire attribute element in the air.

This kind of burning vitality may not be anything in the eyes of others, but in the eyes of the sages of the Stygian Fire Sect, this is the supreme treasure, the supreme treasure that they have been looking for but have never been able to obtain.

It is precisely because of the reason why they have traveled thousands of miles.

It turned out that the sages of the Hellfire Sect had cultivated the vitality with the flame element since childhood.

Their original place of cultivation was in a valley near a volcano.

The huge valley was located in the Southern Mang, but part of it was in the mountains of the extreme south of the Central Plains.

There is a huge volcano, as if deliberately created by the heavens, located in the mountains of the Central Plains.

The reason why the sages of the Hellfire Sect chose this valley was because of this volcano. Because, it was like a source of fire attribute vitality, spreading the fire element to this huge valley continuously.

It is precisely because of the absorption of this scorching vitality that the strength of the sages has soared.

In the decades that followed, the foundation of the Hellfire Sect grew stronger and stronger.

Until one day, all that changed.

It turned out that about a hundred miles away from this volcano, there was this other ancient giant Lingyang Sect.

The Elder of the Lingyang Sect said that this volcano was actually owned by the Central Plains Domain, because it was originally located within the scope of the Central Plains Domain.

And it happened to be on the territory of their Lingyang Sect, this treasure mountain that originally belonged to their Lingyang Sect, how could it be shared with outsiders?

So one day after that, the sect master of the Lingyang Sect led a large number of elders and elites in the sect to come to Xingshi to ask for guilt.

They asked the master to say that the Hellfire Sect had stolen the volcano that should have belonged to them, and the fire elemental that had fallen from the volcano.

The sages of the Hellfire Sect were speechless for a moment, although they could also say that this volcano was also located in the valley where they were living.

But this volcano is indeed in the territory of the Central Plains. And the Lingyang Sect closest to this volcano is a giant sect in the Central Plains.

It is not unreasonable to say that it has absolute control over the volcano.

After the conflict escalated, the sect masters and elders of the Lingyang Sect no longer had any scruples, and they made clear their very domineering intentions: let the Hellfire Sect withdraw from this very precious valley, and this valley would then be dominated by their Lingyang Sect.

Of course, the sages and elders of the Hellfire Sect were unwilling, and they confronted the people of the Lingyang Sect at that time.

However, this time the Lingyang Sect came prepared, and they were almost exhausted this time.

The people of the Hellfire Sect, whose strength was not superior, were immediately suppressed.

After a fierce fight, the Hellfire Sect suffered even heavier losses.

They had to withdraw from this valley of their homeland, where they had lived for almost two hundred years.

Before leaving, many disciples and even elders were so sad that they shed tears.

But since then, the sect masters and disciples of that generation of the Hellfire Sect have understood an unforgettable truth: strength is life, and without strong strength, they can only be slaughtered by others!

This sentence has also become the purpose of the Stygian Fire Sect.

Until now, the elders of the Hellfire Sect often used this sentence to admonish their disciples.

When the ancestors of the Hellfire Sect migrated to the mountains in the northwest of Linhai Prefecture, they immediately took a fancy to its livable low mountain range and beautiful natural scenery.

However, in the eyes of the sages of the Stygian Fire Sect, it was not these low mountain ranges that could be regarded as the most treasure. It's a volcano that stands in the middle of these mountains, a volcano that hasn't erupted much, but it's still majestic.

The fire elemental elements that fell from the volcano made them feel like home again.

And this feeling can be said to be more than equal.

After that, the disciples of the Hellfire Sect remembered the ancestral teachings and cultivated desperately and even madly. Because if you want to stop the past from repeating itself, the only way is to improve your strength and desperately refresh your strength.

Thousands of years later, the Hellfire Sect had already turned into a giant sect.

A super giant sect across Linhai Prefecture.

It's like the status of Yuan Cangmen in Dongcangzhou.

However, Yuancangmen is a little small compared to it.

At this time, in the main hall of Yuancangmen, Sect Master Feng Linhuo had already opened the letterhead that was wrapped around the legs of the carrier pigeon demon beast.

After he read it, he just said two words softly: send troops.

Its voice is soft, but unusually firm.