An hour later.
Xu Lanqing and his group finally found their destination in the eastern part of the Sunset Forest: a place shrouded in miasma.
Since they were inside the empire and relatively close to Tiandou Luo, they had stayed together as a precaution. Otherwise, they could have found it in an hour.
"This is the place you mentioned, that Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well? There's so much miasma!" Ice Empress exclaimed, staring at the scene before her.
"That's right." Xu Lanqing nodded. As they searched, he had already told Snow Empress and the others everything he knew about the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
A faint white miasma covered the area. It stretched so far that they couldn't see its end, and the closer they got to its center, the deeper its color became.
It was so dense that it seemed almost solid, pressing against the air like a barrier. Even the setting sun's rays couldn't penetrate it.
At the very center, it looked as though a cloud had fallen into the forest. They couldn't even make out the vegetation—and the cloud was multicolored.
It gave off an inexplicable sense of oppression.
"What's miasma?" Zheng Zhan asked in confusion. He hadn't really wanted to speak, but that cloud looked dangerous. For his own safety, he figured he'd better ask.
Ice Empress didn't even glance at him or answer. She believed humans were small and vile, and aside from Xu Lanqing, she didn't want to speak to any of them.
She left Zheng Zhan standing there, awkwardly ignored.
Fortunately, Snow Empress explained. "Miasma is generally a poisonous gas that gradually forms when the corpses of plants and animals are left to rot without being cleared away, and without wind or rain to disperse them.
"But I've never seen