Two years later, east of the Sha River, the entrenched Sources of Supernatural Phenomenon had basically all been cleared away.
Those that had not been cleared away had all fled to the Far West Land.
The Sha River was also called the Flowing Sand River.
It was a river of shifting sands that ran through the deserts and Gobi of the Western Regions, dividing the Western Regions into eastern and western halves.
The western side was called the Far West Land, while the eastern side was called east of the Sha River.
The Western Regions covered an immensely vast expanse. To the south lay a long, narrow bay that reached a hundred thousand li deep into the Western Regions. As the seasons turned, raging waves and furious seas carried enormous quantities of rainwater through this narrow bay into the heartland of the Western Regions.
Otherwise, the entire Western Regions would have become desert.
Beyond the reach of rain lay an endless sea of sand. Whenever the rainy season arrived, the river lifted boundless shifting sands and raced all the way toward the bay, shaving down peaks and filling valleys, as though the entire continent were drifting. The sight was magnificent.
Thus the Flowing Sand River got its name, and it also became the natural boundary between the two sides of the Western Regions.
At this time, only one final stronghold of supernatural phenomena remained east of the Sha River.
It was also the "tallest one" chosen by supernatural phenomena with their feet—Yellow Wind Ridge.
This was a vast range of towering mountains stretching for ten thousand li. Because it blocked part of the moisture, it received abundant rainfall and became a giant oasis east of the sea of sand.
Streams and rivers flowed endlessly through the mountains, river-valley plains lay