In western Chen lay No-Return Valley, weathering wind and rain through countless years.
The mists had never dispersed, the murky clouds had never cleared.
Its terror had always pervaded this world, while every story of "punishing evil" came to an abrupt stop outside the valley.
Yan Chunhui taught all manner of wicked arts and evil methods—altering limbs and replacing bodies, stripping away the marks of life—granting those man-demons the power to commit evil as they pleased, tormenting their minds, yet seeming to have no concrete purpose.
He indulged those man-demons in every atrocity, nor did he forbid anyone from killing them—
Only, not in No-Return Valley.
Beyond Chen Kingdom, the man-demons committed every evil imaginable and were despised by all, the foremost targets for heroes of every stripe seeking to punish wickedness and uphold justice. Often, they would commit one atrocity, only to be pursued and slain across a thousand miles.
Generation after generation of man-demons was replaced swiftly.
But so long as they fled into No-Return Valley, they were safe.
They paid all manner of cruel prices to please that forgetful old man. With all manner of bloody offerings, they made their corresponding exchanges with the Self-Forgetful Man-Demon.
The Self-Forgetful Man-Demon was not always fair, but he would give something in return, and he truly could easily change many people's lives. At least, to those man-demons other than Swallow, in a certain sense, he was nearly omnipotent.
The Divine Presence Realm was already a transcendent power at the limits of The Present World—like a god descending into the world—and could surpass the vast majority of mortal imaginings.
What stood silently here was the vista of the absolute peak, an echo from the old era!
Jiang Wang fully believed that when they charged into No-Return Valley, they would surely encounter