Eternal Night Desert.
A figure slowly emerged from the darkness, which seemed almost tangible.
The tall grass parted, and vines drooped, revealing traces of a spellboat.
Pei Ling stood some distance away, studying the wrecked spellboat before him. This was the entrance where he had followed Ji Changfu, the Young Sect Master of the Innate Religion, into the Eternal Night Desert. He still remembered that the spellboat had crashed in a barren stretch of Gobi, where, apart from sparse clumps of silvergrass, only gravel hid countless snakes, bugs, rats, and ants.
But now, every kind of grass and plant grew in abundance, thick and desolate. Had the spellboat not been here, overgrown with weeds, vines, and moss, there would have been no sign of what this place had once looked like.
Darkness surrounded him, leaving him unable to tell north from south. Even though Pei Ling had reached Spirit Transformation, his vision was still severely limited, and he couldn't sense the outside world. Through the Demonic Beast Contract, he could only just sense that Jade Snow Bat was up ahead—and that she had already left the Eternal Night Desert!
At that thought, Pei Ling circulated the Cicada Breath Technique to conceal his aura, then cast the Five Ghost Heavenly Net Escape again. His figure vanished from the spot.
The Five Ghost Heavenly Net Escape was Chongming Sect's signature escape technique, said to reach everywhere from the highest heavens to the deepest underworld. But although Pei Ling seemed to be standing right near the entrance to the Eternal Night Desert, the Five Ghost Heavenly Net Escape carried him for a full half hour or so before the surrounding darkness abruptly vanished, as if wiped away. A world of dim light and shadow appeared before him, where countless high-level cultivators were locked