The entire mountain peak was shrouded in white mist, visibility abysmally low. After Chen Fan and Bald Bird entered it, they headed straight for the summit.
Yet what appeared before them was not a verdant mountain forest, but an enormous, bottomless rift that nearly spanned the entire peak.
Dense white mist also filled the rift. It was clear as water, no different from the white clouds in the sky, drifting through the air like clouds themselves.
The place where Chen Fan and Bald Bird stood had abruptly changed from a mountaintop into the edge of a cliff!
"Damn it, the treasure can't be at the bottom of the valley, can it?" Bald Bird cursed under his breath as he stared at the utterly motionless pointer on the Six Paths Jade Disk.
"This rift is rather strange. It feels cut off from the rest of the world." Chen Fan frowned slightly and turned to survey his surroundings. Even the shadows of Monster Beasts were exceptionally scarce here. In fact, ever since he and Bald Bird had entered this hundred-li radius, they had encountered almost no Monster Beasts at all. Yet this place was considered the deepest region of Demon King Valley.
"Not just this rift—the whole area seems cut off from the world. It's like no one has ever set foot here. If the Six Paths Jade Disk hadn't led us wandering around, we probably wouldn't have found this place either." Bald Bird also examined the surroundings. Everything was too quiet; there was not even the chirping of insects or birds.
"Then let's go down and see what lies below..." Chen Fan rose into the air. A sharp sword instantly hovered beneath his feet, supporting his body as he turned into a streak of light and pierced through the thick white