Old Friends by the Great River, Worlds Apart

Ten Thousand Li Yellow Sand was a desolate wasteland!

As far as the eye could see, there was nothing but yellow sand and gravel.

Legend said this place had not always been like this.

Back then, its waters and grasses had flourished, and its mountains had been beautiful.

Then, a thousand years ago, Accumulated Thunder Nine Mountains had risen from the earth to withstand the might of heaven. Bathed in lightning, they had gradually unleashed such powerful Thunder Force that every mountain and stretch of soil for ten thousand li around had been shattered into countless grains of sand.

Though seas became mulberry fields and mountains and rivers shifted, lightning still struck this land at every moment.

Over time, it had become a golden desert stretching ten thousand li.

And it was nothing like an ordinary desert.

No flowers, grasses, or trees grew in this desert born of Accumulated Thunder Nine Mountains. No animals or demon beasts lived here.

Dunes rose and fell across the desert, as if the entire Sea of Sand were constantly churning.

Without the Wind Riding Art to sustain them, ordinary Qi Refinement Cultivators would be swept up by the quicksand and buried deep beneath it.

Even Foundation Establishment Cultivators had to stay on guard against being dragged in.

Luo Chen stood near the middle of the group.

He looked around, assessing the strength of this force.

There were more than ten thousand people, mostly cultivators in the Late Qi Refining Stage.

But they also numbered over a thousand Foundation Establishment True Cultivators.

That was almost enough to rival a Golden Core Great Sect.

In fact, an ordinary Golden Core Great Sect could not muster so many Foundation Establishment True Cultivators. In the Jade Cauldron Domain, only Azure Pill Valley and the Sword Sect possessed such