Nine Phoenix Ridge was quite famous throughout Four Buddha Province.
This place lay within the borders of Changshi City in eastern Four Buddha Province, but it was also at the border, with a small portion falling under the jurisdiction of another city.
A legend had once circulated about Nine Phoenix Ridge:
It was said that, in the early years, a commoner entered this place and lost his way deep in the mountains, unable to find a path out. Lost and helpless, he spent the night in the depths of the mountains.
At midnight, he fell asleep and dreamed of a strange bird with nine heads trying to eat him. He woke from the dream in fright and, in his panic, actually found the way down the mountain.
But when he returned to his village after descending the mountain, he discovered that the nine-headed strange bird from his dream had appeared before him. It swallowed every person in the village clean, then flew away grandly toward the depths of the mountains—the very place he had come from.
That was how Nine Phoenix Ridge got its name.
Of course, a legend was only a legend. Yet upon hearing the name of this place, Yang An felt that something was wrong.
This was clearly a case of demons and monsters preying upon mortals, yet the place had somehow received the elegant name Nine Phoenix Ridge.
Clearly, this so-called legend came from the memories of demons and monsters, colored by a filter born of subjectivity.
Just as humans would not call themselves livestock—except for those who truly were beasts.
However, Yang An found that he had indeed come to the right place. The Immortal Source Land should be here.
Even a hundred li away from Nine Phoenix Ridge, he had already sensed the aura