Mist Zone.
Amid the hazy white mist, without the road beneath one's feet as a reference while traveling, it was difficult to determine one's position.
Using the maps he had obtained from Yugong and the Wang Family, Lin Hui kept stumbling along and correcting his direction, finally finding the marked area mentioned in the guidebook.
On a dilapidated grayish-white stone roadway, Lin Hui looked at the road ahead, crushed to ruin by enormous footprints, and let out a breath.
"The map made by Qingfeng Temple's expedition team for this place has long since lost most of its reference value. The only one that's still somewhat useful is the one the Wang Family gave me."
He reached out and took out the pale yellow parchment map he had already studied countless times, confirming his current location.
"From here, further out lies the Bone-Eroding Plain. Beyond the Bone-Eroding Plain is the Jade Sea. There should be a massive stone crater here, left behind when the previous Palace Master of Yugong fought someone. Let me look..."
He surveyed his surroundings, slowing down as he circled and searched both sides of the dead-end road.
Before long, he found a dark green pond over ten meters across and bottomless to the eye.
Standing at the pond's edge, Lin Hui looked at the bone fragments continuously rising, falling, and drifting within it, then halted.
"I found the stone crater. Using it as the center, I need to search the surrounding area for the official marker—the Scale Stone Stele."
After circling once, he immediately spotted a rectangular black stone stele leaning crookedly beside the pond.
The stele was half a man tall, with most of it buried in the earth. On the exposed portion, the words "Bone-Eroding Plain" had been stamped in an unknown white pigment. Behind