Location from Beware of Chicken by Casualfarmer
An imperial city at the heart of the Crimson Phoenix Empire — where the Cloudy Sword Sect perches above the clouds and the empire's power structures operate at a scale the Azure Hills can barely imagine.
Crimson Crucible City is where Jin Rou grew up as an orphan before Shen Yu found him. It represents everything Jin rejected: the cultivator hierarchy, the sect politics, the endless competition for power and status. The city itself is the seat of imperial cultivation society — sects jockey for influence, talents are recruited and ranked, and the weak are ground down by the strong. For Fa Ram's community, Crimson Crucible City exists as a distant reality — the place where Shen Yu came from, where the Cloudy Sword Sect maintains its power, and where the empire's decisions are made. It's the machine that Jin opted out of, and his opt-out is slowly proving more revolutionary than any rebellion the city has ever faced.
A major imperial city from which the Cloudy Sword Sect's mountains rise. The scale dwarfs anything in the Azure Hills — proper cultivator infrastructure, imperial architecture, and the accumulated wealth and power of an empire that considers the Azure Hills a backwater barely worth noticing.
Also known as: The Crucible, Crimson Crucible