After traveling for five days, Lu Changsheng felt that the air around him had grown increasingly hot. A wave of heat swept across Lu Changsheng's face, telling him that he had reached his destination—Flame Mountain. 

He looked up and saw a mountain rising in the distance. It seemed to be wrapped in raging flames, but of course, they were not real flames. It was simply a unique phenomenon caused by the environment here. For thousands of li around Flame Mountain, the air shimmered and burned like this. There was an intense, unrelenting heat baked into the environment itself. 

Under ordinary circumstances, plants couldn't take root here, let alone ordinary living creatures. Yet, certain demons thrived in exactly these conditions, especially those with fire attributes. Fire-attribute demons favored environments like this, which was why so many of them had gathered around Flame Mountain. 

From time to time, Dao Foundation and Foundation Establishment[1] cultivators would also come...