The post station's Teleportation Array terminated at an outpost three li outside Nan Gu Town.
Lu Feng's group arrived safely. The instant they stepped out, the sight before them immediately drew their attention.
Not because of any lurking danger, but because they had been drawn in by this landscape, so unlike anything they had seen before.
As far as the eye could see, yellow sand blanketed the land, with scarcely any sign of life. The entire sky was hazy yellow, and the air was filled with an indescribable stifling heat, even more unbearable than the fiercest summer day. With every breath, it felt as if invisible grains of fine dust were entering their nostrils, leaving them terribly uncomfortable.
Ever since leaving the Teleportation Array, Ruo Shui's entire body had begun convulsing intermittently. Her face was full of pain, and cold sweat covered her skin.
Lu Feng understood that the Earth Element Qi of this place was too abundant, disrupting the external balance of the five qi that supported her and causing the poison within Ruo Shui's body to stir.
Although Lu Feng could further strengthen his support and ease Ruo Shui's pain, an even heavier layer of worry hung over his heart.
They were only outside a small border town by the Boundless Underworld Sea. The true Boundless Underworld Sea was still at least dozens, perhaps over a hundred li away. If the environment here had already affected Ruo Shui so severely, would she truly be able to endure it once they entered the Boundless Underworld Sea itself?
That concern had not lasted long before concealed killing intent suddenly swept toward them.
From every direction, more than ten humanoid figures condensed from yellow sand attacked them at once.
Lu Feng's expression tightened. "Illusory Demon Shadow Killing Array!"
Though he had