Zhan Realm

After refining the three great secret realms into the Azure Cloud Grotto-Heaven, Shen Mo did not immediately manifest the grotto-heaven outside River-Facing Sect's mountain gate. Instead, he rode a streak of light toward the Demon Cave of Black Mountain Town!

Black Mountain Town lay at the border between You Province and Jing Province, extremely close to the Ghost Kingdom Ruins.

The defensive city originally guarded by Supreme Elder Feng Daogu of the sect stood between Black Mountain Town and the Ghost Kingdom Ruins. Its purpose had been to block the Heavenly Demons and the endlessly demon-tainted Soul Ghosts, while obtaining vast quantities of blood food from them.

After the great upheaval of heaven and earth, the Ghost Kingdom Ruins underwent a transformation as well.

Dense deathly aura blotted out the sky and covered the earth. From time to time, eerie ghostly music resounded across the land, while majestic ceremonial processions and terrifying ghost shadows could faintly be seen moving through it!

Afterward, no news ever emerged again from either the human city guarded by countless cultivators or the Demon Cave of Black Mountain Town.

Those who had fallen within were not limited to Feng Daogu alone. There was also one Origin Core Realm cultivator each from the Heavenly Sword Sect and Ghost Corpse Sect, along with a great number of disciples from the Five Great Immortal Sects and various other factions.

Now that Shen Mo had become a Heavenly Monarch, he naturally had to investigate and see whether he could pull out those who had fallen inside.

Besides, the Ghost Gate Pass he had long yearned for also lay deep within the Ghost Kingdom Ruins. If the opportunity arose, Shen Mo wanted to uncover more of Ghost Gate Pass's secrets.

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