Yellow sand stretched across the vast desert, with the blazing sun hanging high overhead.
Though there were no sandstorms or raging winds, the heat between heaven and earth was savage and stifling. The scorching temperature warped the air, and every step upon the sea of sand seemed to hiss, as though a person were being roasted on an iron griddle.
"Hiss..."
Wisps of heat rose, only to evaporate without a trace in an instant. Flame Dragon glanced at the soles of his feet, then continued across the sea of sand.
Xijue Hezhou Continent was home to the training ground of the Buddhist Sect's World-Honored One, who had attained the Dao-Ruling True Yang realm. Even among the Three Realms and All Heavens, it was a place of the first rank. To call it a land of natural splendor and gifted people was no exaggeration.
Xijue Hezhou Continent had fertile plains beyond counting, along with forests, hills, rivers, and basins. They sustained countless living beings and supported the construction of innumerable Buddhist temples.
But unlike the other continents of the Three Realms, Xijue Hezhou Continent's eastern, southern, and northern coasts were mostly Gobi and desert. Fishing villages and people who went out to sea to fish were rare. To the west, the land became a scorching sea of sand. The closer one drew to the Western Extremity, the broader that sea grew, and the more fiercely it burned.
"See? These are the rules that one laid down."
"No fishing, no going to sea. He was afraid the living beings of Xijue Hezhou Continent would learn how freely people lived outside. He was afraid they would see the world beyond, so he trapped them all on this one continent."
"He wanted people to worship him, yet feared they might actually come to pay