Taihuang Heaven was another lesser world. Though even more vast than an ordinary complete world, it had been seized and brought here through great mana, added into the Thirty-Three Heavens.
Within the Thirty-Three Heavens, the Upper Heavens, Middle Heavens, and Lower Heavens lay in entirely different regions. To cross from one place to another, one had to pass through several different worlds in succession.
After entering Taihuang Heaven, the first thing Ye Xiwen did was find a city and purchase a map of Taihuang Heaven.
In particular, he had to buy maps showing the distribution of secret realms. He had never been to the Selection of Emperor Road before, so he could hardly search for them one by one himself. That would take far too much time.
He could only buy maps. The Selection of Emperor Road had been open for countless years, so the distribution of secret realms in Taihuang Heaven had surely long since been thoroughly explored. Even if some secret realms had formed over the past hundred thousand years, more than a century had passed, so their locations should have been identified by now. This could save Ye Xiwen an enormous amount of time.
Within Taihuang Heaven, most places were like those in Taian Heaven—wild and desolate lands. Only in places with cities did many gods stop and linger.
Many powerful and terrifying creatures lived in the Selection of Emperor Road. Even gods could not guarantee that they would not have their heads bitten off by a ferocious beast through a moment of carelessness.
Only cities protected by formations could be considered safe. Under ordinary circumstances, no one camped out in the wilderness.
The city was packed shoulder to shoulder, heads bobbing like waves. Many outsiders had flooded in, leaving Ye Xiwen somewhat surprised.
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