"Abyssal Demons?"
Zhang Qingyuan's gaze darkened slightly.
If he remembered correctly,
he had indeed heard that name back when he was in Yuzhou.
Roughly a thousand years ago, Yuzhou had erupted into a chaotic war. That conflict had led to the destruction of the Thick Earth Sect, which had splintered from the surviving branch of the Ancient Five Elements Sect; the Water Element Lineage had merged into the Cloud Water Sect, drastically altering Yuzhou's landscape and paving the way for the Cloud Water Sect's rise.
It had also involved the destruction of the Huangtian Cult, once the overlord of Yuzhou.
The Huangtian Cult's foundational cultivation art was the Desolate Sky Body Refining Art. It had been created by the Huangtian Cult's forebears after they comprehended the Abyssal Demons' undying bodies, then refined generation after generation.
This body-refining art had also laid an exceptionally solid foundation for Zhang Qingyuan's physique!
"Come to think of it, Yunzhou has very few records concerning Abyssal Demons, but Yuzhou is different. Even True Essence Realm Cultivators can come into contact with these secrets. If I had not been too weak back then, and had not spent only a little over a hundred years in Yuzhou, I might have uncovered more related information."
Zhang Qingyuan's thoughts sank.
A faint sense of foreboding arose within him.
Yuzhou and Haizhou were said to have been shattered apart by terrifying forces during a great war in ancient times. The landmasses had drifted into the depths of the boundless stormy seas, sunk beneath layer upon layer of black seas, and disappeared. From then on, news had been cut off, and they had been utterly severed from the Nine Continents Continent.
Beyond the outskirts of the Nine Continents Continent, past the lands beyond the domain, lay endless Black Mist that devoured