Soul Land · Farewell, Xiao Wu!
Wang Yue had no idea what Zhu Zhuqing was thinking. Having set aside the matter weighing most heavily on his mind, he began considering her spirit ring problem.
Zhu Zhuqing needed a spirit beast associated with Netherworld power. The best place to look would be some dark forest, or a forest so pitch-black you could not see your hand in front of your face.
Of course, there was another place that might have them: near Slaughter City.
Although killing power and Netherworld power were fundamentally different, Wang Yue believed that slaughter and the Netherworld went hand in hand.
Only sufficient slaughter could produce the Netherworld. Therefore, spirit beasts connected to Netherworld power might exist near Slaughter City.
But Slaughter City was simply too far from Heaven Dou City. Getting there would likely take quite some time.
That left only one other kind of place: a battlefield. Many people had died there, so Netherworld power would naturally arise, and there would be more spirit beasts carrying Netherworld power as well.
Having figured this out, Wang Yue gave it some thought and immediately came up with a place.
Jialing Pass!
A mountain range ran through the center of the Heaven Dou Empire, splitting the entire empire in two.
However, the foundation of the Heaven Dou Empire lay west of the Heaven Dou Mountains, and its capital was naturally on the western side as well. To make ruling the entire empire more convenient, Heaven Dou City had been built on the west side of the mountain range.
At a strategic point in the mountains, however, the Heaven Dou Empire had constructed an extremely perilous pass to protect Heaven Dou City.
That pass was called Jialing Pass!
Before the Heaven Dou Empire had unified the northern continent, it