Zhou Xi carried Lin Bai out of Eternal Night Mountain.
After leaving the mountain, the air began to flow. Lin Bai soon caught the scent of blood drifting over on the wind.
This was not because a martial artist had died nearby. Rather, too many people had died throughout the territory of Lianzhou, causing resentment to fester and drift through heaven and earth.
Half a day later, Lin Bai and Zhou Xi passed by a village.
According to Zhou Xi's memories, this village had originally been one of the villages under Nine Night Town. Yet when Lin Bai entered it, all he saw were vast stretches of collapsed houses and the smoke of war that had continued burning for months without being extinguished.
It was called a village, but its area was extraordinarily vast.
By the standards of the Barren Ancient Continent, this village was at least as large as seven Lingnan Imperial Cities combined.
Zhou Xi said that hundreds of millions of martial artists had lived in this village, ranging from the Martial Dao Ninth Level to Dao Realm experts.
Unfortunately, once war broke out, the village suffered a massacre. Countless martial artists defected to the enemy and betrayed their friends, while others had already fled with their families to seek refuge with someone else.
From outside the village, Lin Bai caught only a hurried glimpse of corpses covering the ground and blood flowing in rivers.
The corpses of the fallen were piled along the roads. With no one to bury them, they had already begun emitting a monstrous stench.
Now and then, a few figures could still be seen moving within the village. They were martial artists who had survived the calamity, while some others were searching the corpses for treasures.
Among those dead bodies were everyone from