The wasteland.
Thousand Disk Mountain.
Whoosh!
Jiang Yan stood high in the sky, gazing down at the mountain as his eyes flickered.
It was a mountain about a thousand zhang tall. That was nothing remarkable in the wasteland, but what made Thousand Disk Mountain strange was the countless round stones embedded in it.
Most of these stones were set into its body. From a distance, they looked like tightly shut eyes.
In fact, that was no illusion. Thousand Disk Mountain, near Xingdao City, was the subject of an ancient and terrifying legend.
The mountain's main body was a fearsome Ninth-Order Monster. Whenever a passerby looked at Thousand Disk Mountain, the monster sensed them and opened one of its eyes to stare back.
Afterward, that person would suffer misfortune. Within seven days, they would die for no apparent reason. Not a single one had ever escaped!
Thousand Disk Mountain's surroundings had long since been declared a forbidden zone. No one lived nearby, aside from powerful martial artists who dared to cross the area.
"Excellent. You're a big, strong one!"
Jiang Yan stared at Thousand Disk Mountain below. His eyes shone brighter and brighter, and delight welled up inside him until he could barely contain it.
"I reckon that once I kill this monster and seize its Anomaly Points, I'll finally reach the peak of the Extreme Realm."
"Then I'll be qualified to glimpse the higher realm of martial arts—the Jie Realm."
A month had passed since Jiang Yan arrived in Xingdao City and ambushed the Hengdao Sect's headquarters.
For the past month, Jiang Yan had braved the elements and raced across the wasteland, hunting monsters in great numbers with the map provided by Huoyan Valley.
Over the course of that month, he had relied on a mountain of Anomaly Points to