Among a desolate expanse of towering, bizarrely shaped buildings, five patches of soul mist of varying sizes occupied the region.
From this strange and magnificent stretch of buildings, one could vaguely imagine the grandeur Sea Soul Palace had possessed in its heyday. At the very least, the Xuan Yin City, Nine Central City, Starcloud City, and East Sea Dragon Palace Lu Xiaotian had seen were mere tips of the iceberg by comparison.
Although this place had become ownerless, scattered beams of light passed through the crystalline surfaces of the buildings at varying heights, refracting again and again to create a bizarre, fantastical landscape, so tranquil that one could not help but sink into it.
In this peculiar environment, all five patches of soul mist were suppressed to some degree. Even the largest was confined to an area less than a thousand li in radius.
The smallest covered an area of less than three hundred li.
"Another fellow's come."
"He's spread himself pretty thin, hasn't he? Let's see how he gets himself out of this in a bit."
"Should we give him a warning?"
"Warn him my ass. We all suffered losses getting here, and this guy showed up late, making us wait all this time. And now we're supposed to warn him? In his dreams!"
The beings controlling the five patches of soul mist exchanged words among themselves. Some were gloating over Lu Xiaotian's arrival, eager to watch him make a fool of himself; others acted as though it had nothing to do with them.
In fact, as soon as Lu Xiaotian approached the area, he had sensed something strange about the atmosphere around those magnificent yet bizarre buildings. In the shadows floated numerous things like walking corpses, no different from uncontrolled soul corpses.
Seeing that all five patches of