North of Moyun Prefecture and south of the Boundless Sea lay an immense wilderness.
This vast region had once been called a land beyond civilization by the Great Dry Imperial Dynasty. Many ignorant tribes had once settled here and flourished.
But when the Black Tide came, even the mighty Great Dry Imperial Dynasty could only resist it. The weak tribes, forced to fight on their own, were snuffed out in an instant.
From then on, the wilderness became a haunt of monsters, rife with danger. Even Human Race warriors who had achieved some cultivation would not set foot here unless they had no choice.
Yet right here in the wilderness, at the foot of a range of black stone mountains, a city stood—strikingly out of place.
Before the Black Tide arrived, none of the ignorant tribes nearby had been capable of building a city. But now, one had been raised here by sheer force.
Great black stones had been piled up around the city. Above the gates, three crookedly carved characters could just barely be made out:
Black Stone City.
The characters were written in the script of the Human Race, and many humans lived inside the city. Yet its ruler was no human, but a monster.
This was the fiefdom the Seven-Colored Godly Monarch had established in the wilderness.
After his divine powers had reached great heights, he had used a secret art to seize many humans and pen them up here. Day and night, he inflicted brutal punishments on them, using their despair as food.
But as the Seven-Colored Godly Monarch grew stronger, even the abundant nourishment this city provided no longer satisfied him. So he left the wilderness and plotted against Yuanxin Old Ancestor, which led to the battle at Kunlun Divine Palace.
In a dilapidated little