In the outskirts of the Southern Pole Outer Divine Mountain, a streak of golden light cut across the sky at high speed.
It was Hao Shuai, who had left Guihua Mountain and, after making a trip back to the Hundred Barbarian Mountains, had hurried straight to the Southern Pole without stopping.
The Outer Divine Mountain had once been part of the Celestial Palace in the Lingkong Immortal Realm. Tens of millions of years ago, for reasons unknown, it had flown in from beyond the heavens. The Southern Pole's Primordial Magnetic True Qi had forcibly drawn it down, and it had crashed here, conveniently suppressing the Extreme Yang Fire Eye. The fire burned around the jade mountain, reacting with the magnetic energy and the Sun's True Fire to form a raging aurora blaze that sealed off the area within from the outside world.
Though the aurora blaze was perilous, powerful prehistoric spirits and human cultivators had braved the flames over the ages. After countless years, many spirits had multiplied and made their home here.
Though it was called a mountain, the place was vast, with no fewer than ten thousand peaks.
The Outer Divine Mountain also had three local powers. One was the Ten Thousand Year Old Cold Centipede, another was the Yuan Tuo imprisoned in an underground cavern; both were primordial great demons. The third was Qian Kang, a human Earth Immortal who had attained the Way.
Qian Kang had attained the Way at the end of the Southern Song Dynasty. By a twist of fate, he had come to this Bright Realm, where he had gathered and subdued many of its cultivators. He founded the Sleepless City, a place where immortals and mortals lived together, and declared himself its lord. Then he settled there with his family and disciples,