Desolate Valley lay a full three hundred li from the border of Eternal Night.
If this distance had been outside, Third Limit martial artists could have rushed over in less than an hour.
But in the forbidden zone, it took a full day and night.
The Skeleton Society drove an ox cart, hauling a bronze Fire Pit into Desolate Valley.
Evil beasts burned within the Fire Pit.
Its firelight illuminated a hundred-meter radius.
The darkness was driven away.
Slightly weaker evil beasts did not dare approach at all.
Any that occasionally came close were immediately ensnared by chains, fishing nets, and the like, then thrown into the Fire Pit as fuel.
The bronze Fire Pit stood in the center of Desolate Valley.
There was a small Fire Pit here.
Flames swayed within it.
A black-robed old man was roasting meat over the Fire Pit.
Crackle!
Grease dripped down.
Streams of black smoke visible to the naked eye rose from the roasted meat.
The meat came from evil beasts.
An ordinary Third Limit martial artist would be tainted by evil after a single bite and would need to rest beside a Fire Pit for over an hour, perhaps even a whole day, before recovering.
Ordinary people did not dare eat evil beast meat at all.
If they ate too much, even with a Fire Pit's protection, they would slowly be tainted by evil and eventually become an evil creature themselves.
Wu Tiande, president of the Skeleton Society, ordered his men to patrol the surroundings.
He himself sat before the black-robed old man.
"Mr. Ji!"
The black-robed old man was one of Ninth Princess's people.
His status was not particularly high, but he had already pledged allegiance to Great Qian's Young Master.
His strength was terrifying.
Mr. Ji handed him a piece