"This was the first scene?"
"Yes, City Lord."
Wang Yu sat astride the Three-Tailed Snow Fox, whose body had grown ever more massive, and spread open the map in his hands, discovering that this location was truly peculiar.
Of the four provinces under the Inverse Spirit Blood Sect, the Saint Offering for each five-year cycle was first delivered to the local prefecture city, then sent on by the prefecture city's people to the mountain gate.
For city lords like them, once they delivered it to the prefecture city, their task was considered complete.
Cloud Ridge Prefecture City was located northeast of Guiling City. Along the way, one would pass Wisteria Mountain, Silt Meadow, Thunderfall Pit... and after crossing the three-hundred-li Thread of Sky Canyon, one would arrive at Cloud Ridge Prefecture City.
The place where the incident happened was precisely between Silt Meadow and Thunderfall Pit. The former stretched as far as the eye could see, with no obstacle whatsoever that could block one's vision.
The latter was the place where the ancient exotic beast [Ji Meng] had once displayed its divine might.
Legend had it that in the Ancient Times, during thunderstorm weather, an exotic beast with a dragon's head, a human body, bird claws, and feathers growing from its arms would descend with pillars of lightning to punish those burdened by deep Karmic Hindrances. This beast was Ji Meng.
This Thunderfall Pit was said to have struck dead a demonic-path Spirit Transformation Honored One. As for exactly who it was... the records were profoundly secretive, and Wang Yu did not know either. He only treated it as a story.
Now that the people escorting the Saint Offering had died between the two places, with no traces of magical combat left behind, as if they had vanished on the