North of the Divine Region...
After bypassing Yuan Cang Mountain and crossing the northern border, one would enter Bei Chen Region.
Bei Chen Region had once been an extremely fertile great region. Many powerful figures had emerged from this place, making it a land blessed with outstanding people.
But over the past several Divine Eras, Bei Chen Region had become a dead domain.
The deathly aura spreading from Jianmu had killed every living creature in Bei Chen Region. The once-prosperous divine cities had fallen into disrepair and begun to collapse little by little.
Amid the rolling deathly aura, Old Hu's figure had quietly descended.
Upon Old Hu's arrival, the deathly aura was like a pack of hyenas that had discovered food, converging on him from all directions.
"Hmph!"
Old Hu's body trembled lightly, and an invisible force spread from within him. The deathly aura that had gathered suddenly scattered...
He then gazed into the distance. Far, far away, the Jianmu tree, towering three hundred and thirty thousand li high, flickered in and out of sight.
After locking onto Jianmu's position, Old Hu once again used the Great Shift, fleeing toward Jianmu.
Not long afterward...
Old Hu appeared atop the thickest branch at the center of Jianmu.
Countless dark-red strands of webbing were spread across this branch, winding around four enormous crimson spheres.
Within the spheres, the faint outline of a human figure could be seen.
"Hu Yan, has anything major happened in the Divine Region lately?" a chilly voice came from one of the spheres.
Hu Yan cupped his hands toward the four spheres and replied, "This time, things really are troublesome."
"Troublesome? That fellow surnamed Yuan was cursed and is holed up inside Ruomu, unable to come out. That woman called Luo Shui is in much the same state—there's