Diancui Mountain stretched one thousand two hundred li from east to west and a thousand li from north to south, slightly smaller than the area encompassed by Harmony Peak.
The mountain range's outer perimeter was a ring of relatively low hills. At its center lay a plain, with six steep peaks rising from it.
Most of the peaks were bare stone mountains. Vegetation was sparse at their bases, giving them a somewhat desolate appearance, but higher up the slopes it grew increasingly lush and verdant. Thus, this place was called Diancui Mountain.
It was said that before the Great Tribulation, the Spirit Vein here had been third-tier High-Grade. It had been occupied by a rather powerful Golden Core family, with a million mortals living in the valleys as the family's foundation.
This family had possessed two late Golden Core cultivators, a pair of Dao Companions. One of them had reached the Golden Core ninth layer.
Yet no one had expected the True Demons' forces to be so powerful. Faced with the siege of a Nascent Soul level True Demon and an ocean of low-level True Demons, Diancui Mountain quickly fell.
Only core disciples managed to escape via the Teleportation Array. The vast majority of cultivators and mortals were buried along with this land.
Ji An rode the clouds through the air, looking down as he surveyed the mountain range shrouded in black demonic qi. As he flew, he recorded images of the terrain into a jade slip.
After rising into the air, the demonic qi rapidly dispersed and faded into a thin gray mist. But Ji An possessed eyes that could see through dense fog, so he did not worry in the slightest that it would affect his vision.
Outside, places that had not been deeply contaminated were slowly being