Miasma Cloud Valley lay in a treacherous region along the border of the Tian Feng Kingdom.
The year-round, multicolored poisonous miasma hung like an enormous canopy, sealing the sprawling valleys tight. Jagged rocks filled the valley, and venomous insects crawled everywhere.
The Great Sun Divine Ship carrying Chu Jiang and the others reached the outskirts of Miasma Cloud Valley in less than half a day.
A dense, fishy stench of poison rushed at them. Even the light became bizarre and distorted beneath the refraction of the toxic miasma.
"My lord, I sense an eerie poisonous aura deep within this valley. It seems the Poison Demon Sect truly is entrenched here."
Fu Yunxuan gazed at the roiling Poisonous Mist ahead, her delicate brows tightly furrowed. With her Calamity Poison Body, she possessed perception far beyond ordinary people when it came to certain special poisons.
Chu Jiang nodded slightly. As the headquarters of an evil sect, Miasma Cloud Valley was naturally no ordinary place. There was some real substance hidden within it.
Rumble!
Just as everyone prepared to force their way through the poisonous miasma and charge into the valley—
"Help! Fellow cultivators ahead, save us!"
A frantic cry for help suddenly came from the forest to their left.
They saw—
More than a dozen cultivators in varied attire, seemingly disciples of some small sect, fleeing in utter disarray. Every one of them was wounded, their faces filled with terror.
Behind them, over twenty cultists clad in Poison Demon Sect robes were pursuing them madly. Streams of poisonous energy shrieked through the air, corroding it as they passed.
"Haha, run? Let's see where you can run! You dared steal from Miasma Cloud Valley? Perfect—I'll use your vital blood as an offering to the Sect Master!"
The Poison Demon Sect leader sneered viciously,