The suffocating atmosphere weighed heavily on Lin Yi, but worrying would do no good. For now, growing stronger mattered most. Who knew how many people would die in the coming crisis?
"I can't consume this Flat Peach seed, so I can't touch the immortal essence or fragments of the Great Dao within it. But I can refine its immense vitality," Lin Yi murmured.
The life force in the Flat Peach seed was extraordinarily powerful, a rarity in the world!
An ill omen now hung over the entire ancient road. He needed to grow as strong as he could.
Great Moon Slope was a strange place.
The slope was gentle and shaped like a half-moon, which was how it got its name. It looked desolate: vast, barren, and without a blade of grass.
Legend held that this was where the ancient beast Ji had once come close to godhood. No one knew how it had become the lifeless place it was now.
Day or night, it remained shrouded in gray mist. Everything looked dim beneath its perpetual gloom.
Lin Yi stepped into the region. There were no plants, no insects, no living creatures at all. Not even birds flew over it.
Great Moon Slope lay silent and forlorn, as though no one had entered it for hundreds of thousands of years. It was an abandoned land.
White bones and rotting corpses appeared on the ground from time to time. Mist drifted around them, making midday look like dusk.
The mist thickened ahead, gray as a ceiling of leaden clouds. Bones littered the ground, long since decayed; they cracked underfoot and crumbled at once.
After traveling more than eight hundred miles, he drew near the depths of Great Moon Slope. The gray mist thinned a little, revealing shapes along the barren