Outside Azure Sky City stretched a vast expanse of uninhabited primeval forest.
Crossing this primeval forest would lead into the territory of Pure Yang Sect.
During times of peace, this primeval forest had been a haven for crime and corruption. Many martial artists who could no longer survive within Azure Sky City or Pure Yang Sect's territory hoped to hide in such unclaimed lands.
Now that war had erupted across Seven Nights Divine Sect's domain, these unclaimed lands had become an even greater paradise for villains and bandits. Countless martial artists had come here to establish strongholds and turn to banditry.
Within this hundred-thousand-li primeval forest, there were more than several hundred strongholds, large and small. Each occupied a mountain peak and waylaid passing martial artists.
Of those several hundred strongholds, the strongest was undoubtedly Black Tiger Stronghold, which Lin Bai had encountered earlier.
Black Tiger Stronghold had originally been merely one of the few small bandit groups in this mountain range. Yet after war broke out in Seven Nights Divine Sect's domain, several martial artists at the Dao Realm level had appeared from who knew where and joined Black Tiger Stronghold. In an instant, it became one of the great strongholds in this mountain range.
The stronghold's chief and several deputy chiefs were all at the Dao Realm level.
The various hall masters and leaders, large and small, were all experts at the Apex Realm.
The scarred middle-aged man Lin Bai had encountered earlier, for example, was at the Apex Realm and was one of Black Tiger Stronghold's leaders.
Perhaps because this place lay on the border between Overturning Heavens Sect's territory and Pure Yang Sect's territory, the situation was especially chaotic, and the circumstances within this mountain range were even more complicated.
Strongholds of all sizes blocked the