Tai'an County

At Bai Yang's repeated insistence, Qing He finally agreed to let him accompany her. She had already packed everything and was ready to leave at any time.

The journey was more than a million li. Qing He couldn't fly, so she had originally planned to ride a unique flying bird from Tian Yin Sect, which would take three days to reach their destination. Now that Bai Yang was going with her, he could carry them there in the time it took to eat a meal.

Once they had settled the matter, they set off. As they left Tian Yin Sect, Bai Yang asked Qing He about her mission.

The mission wasn't difficult. Evil creatures were ravaging a county town, and all Qing He had to do was go there and clear them out so the people could return to normal life.

The evil creatures weren't powerful. Even a Martial Master could easily kill them; there were simply a lot of them. For Qing He, who was at the peak of the Grandmaster realm, it was still a simple task.

As Bai Yang learned more, he discovered that the evil creatures at Qing He's destination had appeared because of the influence of another place: the source of the evil energy suppressed by Tian Yin Sect's Tian Yin Bell.

Though the Tian Yin Bell suppressed the source of the evil energy, some of it still seeped out. Any living creature tainted by it became an evil creature and ran rampant through the world.

Within a radius of a hundred thousand li around the source, the land had become a dead zone—a forbidden ground where life could not survive. It was filled with countless powerful evil beings. Even Human King Realm experts had to tread carefully inside, which showed just how perilous it