"Everything will be all right. Since you're planning to head to Heavenly East, Big Brother Ye, I'm afraid we'll have to part ways this time." I smiled.
Ye Yunqiu nodded. "Yes. The chaos in Heavenly South isn't what I want. My goal this time is to stop the war. Even if that doesn't work, the enemy of my enemy is a friend. Heavenly East is coming out in full force—surely the sects of Heavenly South aren't still going to keep fighting among themselves?"
"I hope you'll achieve swift success, Big Brother Ye," I said. Yet I didn't dare feel too confident about his journey. Ye Yunqiu was heading to Heavenly East, the stronghold of the True Immortals, and no one knew what kind of impact that would bring—just like everything beyond Heavenly South was unknown.
After bidding farewell to Ye Yunqiu, I led the elders and An Jun of the Heaven's Unity Dao and continued flying southwest. According to the map Heavenly South had explored, once we passed through the great forests and mountains of the Cinnabar Cloud Sect and continued toward the Nightfall Nation, we would enter a dull region filled with the greatest number of mountain ranges. Unlike the low mountains and dense forests of Earth's Hundred Thousand Mountains back then, the mountains here were said to tower higher than anywhere else. Some reached straight to the dome of heaven and were also home to certain ancient primordial beasts.
Forcing the Heaven's Unity Dao into such a terrifying place was truly too much on the part of the Nine Heavens Gate. Fortunately, Wife Sis and the others had set out long ago, and before I headed to the Nightfall Nation, they had already given me several locations where they had hidden treasures and stored supplies. Thus, as I