A Fortuitous Encounter in a Fiendish Land (First Update! Please Subscribe!)

The Destiny Lantern hung silently in the air. Its cold, eerie flames drove back the thick darkness wherever they shone. On the flying shuttle's deck, mottled marks had appeared at some point.

The marks looked like some kind of corrosion, or coagulated bloodstains that had been there for ages. They gave off an ominous air.

Beyond the flying shuttle lay a desert-like landscape, strewn with gravel. Here and there, tufts of needlegrass grew listlessly.

Something—whether snakes, insects, or some other creatures—flashed past in the blink of an eye, moving at astonishing speed. Even a cultivator would have struggled to make out what it was without concentrating fully.

Under the Destiny Lantern's light, the whispers gradually faded, and Jade Snow Bat, Chu Mo, and Gui Hengqiu slowly stabilized.

At last able to catch her breath, Gui Hengqiu's face turned icy. "What do you mean by this, Young Sect Master?"

Chu Mo's voice was gloomy. "We've always been loyal and respectful to the Young Sect Master. The Eternal Night Desert is one of the Four Great Fiendish Lands. Anyone at the Core Formation stage who enters is doomed to die! We're all disciples of the Sacred Sect, and with the Anti-Pseudo War underway, we're needed more than ever. What does the Young Sect Master stand to gain by killing us?"

Pei Ling stared at Ji Changfu, his expression equally cold. The Eternal Night Desert—one of the Four Great Fiendish Lands!

Netherplain Tomb had once been counted among the Four Great Fiendish Lands. Just its appearance in the sea had been enough to force every heir of the Nine Great Sects to use their last-ditch tricks to flee for their lives.

And in the Floating Life Realm, another of the Four Great Fiendish Lands, the "strangeness" it bred and unleashed had twice trapped