The region containing Soul Serpent Valley and the Fire Spirit Blood Tree Forest was known as the Eastern Wilderness in Blood Purgatory. The one who had given it that name was the Celestial Punisher.
The Eastern Wilderness covered an immense area. This single region was equivalent to the size of an entire planet in another world, and the Magic-Free Pureland lay at its easternmost edge.
The area outside the Magic-Free Pureland was called the Black Storm Zone. Every so often, roughly once every half year on Earth, black storms swept through this place. Any target struck by them would lose the ability to cast spells and fall unconscious.
"No one knows how the black storms formed, but we roughly know where they begin: a great rift valley in the west. Even flying, it would take me a very long time to get there," the Exploding Flame Bird Main God said to Lu Yang.
The Soul Serpent Clan Main God said, "Other than the great rift valley, which cannot be entered, there are more than thirty races in the region between it and where we are. They have no intelligence or special spells, and their strength is only that of ordinary lower gods. They are the most suitable opponents if your warriors wish to campaign outside."
Lu Yang asked, "Have you ever been beyond the Black Storm Zone?"
The Exploding Flame Bird Main God shook his head. "That great rift valley has a bizarre pulling force. You cannot fly across it, and its depths cannot be seen. Even I, a Main God, nearly died there. We have never gone out, and no one has ever come in."
Lu Yang's eyes lit up slightly. This proved that the region they were in was a deadly isolation zone. If no one could enter