If the missing elders had come to Ash Crown City following a trail, it was very possible that the Ephemera Sect or their allied forces had also realized this place's significance.
A hidden sect base, disguised among the countless rogue cultivators who passed through… it wasn't unthinkable.
As the flame surged once more, Lin Mu placed his palms on the obsidian floor and allowed his body to drink in more of the raw elemental surge. His pores tingled, his skin steamed faintly, and his inner cores roared with vitality. He could feel his comprehension of both the Earth Dao and Fire Dao deepen ever so slightly, the flame whispering truths older than civilization into the corners of his mind.
'Let's see how far I can go with this,' he thought, fully immersing himself again.
Unbeknownst to him, just outside in the flickering lamplight streets of Ash Crown City, Daoist Chu and Meng Bai were beginning to uncover hints of secrets that had long been buried in the ash.
