Extra: Prequel · Shi Gui Tian

Demon Realm, Grave Mountain

Within Eternal Night Sovereign City stood a peculiar mountain peak. Its slopes were barren and deathly still, not a single blade of grass growing upon them, only graves standing everywhere.

These graves bore no names and were never visited by mourners. They were nothing more than crude burial mounds, formed from raised heaps of earth and wooden boards planted before them.

The entire mountain was blanketed with such grave mounds, their number so great it was horrifying.

No one knew when this place had first come to be, nor how many people were truly buried within the mountain.

They only knew that every day, an elderly man with a hunched back had, since long ago, buried corpses for all the dead over and over again.

It was precisely because of the graves carpeting the mountain that this peak came to be called Grave Mountain.

Many factions had once sought to drive the old man from Grave Mountain. Yet however many people came, several more grave mounds would appear on Grave Mountain the next day...

That day, a graceful and composed figure slowly set foot upon Grave Mountain.

The moment Ning Yechen entered Grave Mountain, he sensed a dense fog formed from Corrosive Miasma and corpse qi shrouding the entire peak.

Yet this degree of miasma and corpse qi had no effect on him whatsoever. He strolled up Grave Mountain at an unhurried pace.

After a while, Ning Yechen arrived at the mountaintop. From afar, he saw a hunched figure sitting blankly before two grave mounds, one large and one small.

"This is not a place you should be. Leave."

Sensing Ning Yechen's arrival, the old man warned him without turning his head.

"And what if I insist on staying~?"

Ning Yechen smiled faintly and asked with