The sky was a brilliant blue, without a cloud in sight.
High above the ground, Xu Lanqing was carried across the Sun Moon Empire by the Snow Empress and Ice Empress, heading for the Demonic Forest.
"Let's do it here." Xu Lanqing pointed to a spot on the map.
The map was extremely detailed, with even the villages marked on it. The place Xu Lanqing had indicated was a hill on the edge of the Demonic Forest.
"Sure."
The Snow Empress glanced at the map and, after confirming the direction and location, gave a slight nod.
Each of them took one of Xu Lanqing's hands. Their speed suddenly picked up, and it wasn't long before they arrived.
On a hill about a hundred meters high, at the edge of the Demonic Forest facing Mingdu, two women and a man touched down at the summit.
The Snow Empress raised her right hand, and the Emperor Sword appeared. With a casual swing, she carved a smooth, level patch into the rocky ground.
From here, the forest stretched into the distance: a vast expanse of black and gray branches and leaves. Even before entering, it exerted an immense, invisible pressure.
Xu Lanqing gazed in the direction of the Holy Spirit Cult. The sunlight was bright and warm, yet it could not reach the ground beneath the black-and-gray forest.
And deeper underground lay a darkness even blacker than the forest—a gathering place for all manner of dregs.
He held his Storage Ring and took out one gleaming white Soul Tool after another. Each had a fixed base and a cannon barrel that glinted with a chilling light. They were Fixed Soul Cannonball Launchers, nine in all.
Magazines sprang out of the launcher bases. He loaded nine Fixed Soul Cannonballs into the nine launchers in