Within a mysterious secret realm in Yan Return County.
The secret realm was vast and boundless. Rolling mountain ranges and winding rivers nurtured countless towering ancient trees.
These ancient trees formed particular patterns in a specific arrangement. Viewed from the sky, the entire mountain range resembled a mysterious divination disk.
Pavilions and ancient halls stood scattered throughout the spirit mountains. Yet when the breeze swept past and fallen leaves drifted soundlessly down, the place seemed somewhat dead and desolate.
At the very center of the spirit mountains stood a dilapidated grand hall, bearing three conspicuous words: Heaven Wasteland Hall.
The Eight Desolations Sect had once been divided into eight wastelands: Wild Wasteland, Desolation Suppressor Wasteland, Inscription Wasteland, Pill Wasteland, Beast Wasteland, Sword Wasteland, Puppet Wasteland, and Artifact Wasteland.
Of them all, the most mysterious was naturally Wild Wasteland. At its height, Wild Wasteland had possessed great cultivators at the Nascent Soul Late Stage, skilled in divination and the workings of fortune.
It had also been the most mysterious of the Eight Wastelands.
Purple Peak of Taiyi Sect, in fact, had inherited many legacies from Wild Wasteland as well.
And this secret realm was one of Wild Wasteland's secret realms from the past.
Yet beneath the ruined grand hall lay a crimson blood pool. It was constantly bubbling with blood, emanating an especially oppressive aura, as though some creature was about to emerge from within.
Beside the blood pool, several figures clad in Aura Isolation Robes continuously tossed all manner of unknown essence blood into it, along with strange spirit corpses. The moment those spirit corpses were submerged in the blood pool, they let out ferocious roars.
Their auras surged explosively—Third Order Early Stage became Third Order Late Stage, Third Order Late Stage became Fourth Order Early Stage...
The main cultivators