The Demon Fire Plains. A year ago, this place had still been a stretch of towering mountains and steep ridges that extended for a thousand li.
Majestic mountain ranges had crouched there like coiling giant dragons, layer upon layer of peaks rising one behind another, cloudy mist winding around them. Birds and beasts had multiplied and thrived within, creating a scene brimming with life.
Yet one year later, this place had transformed into a vast, boundless white plain.
Those mountain peaks that had once pierced the clouds, those valleys that had once seemed bottomless, those forests that had once been lush and green—all of them had turned into nothingness during that heaven-shaking upheaval one year ago.
What replaced them was a stretch of land so flat it was almost eerie. As far as the eye could see, there was only a glaring milky-white color, as though some mysterious power had completely changed its appearance.
Across the plain, enormous cracks several thousand zhang wide wound and spread like gigantic centipedes, cutting the level ground into countless irregular fragments.
These cracks were bottomless, and their edges were charred black, traces left behind after being scorched by a terrifying high temperature.
Waves of burning hot heat rose from within the cracks, warping the air and making this stretch of world seem exceptionally dry and scorching.
This plain had naturally been created when the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame descended one year ago.
At that time, the power of the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame had seeped out from the Demonic Flame Space, and that destructive high temperature had swept across the entire mountain range in an instant.
Layer upon layer of mountains had all turned into nothingness in a single instant, like ice and snow melting away. Hard mountain rock had melted into boiling lava,