Nether River

Western Nether Continent—its boundless, sprawling mountains and rivers were shrouded in a heavy ghostly mist that seemed to gather thunder. The entire world appeared exceptionally dark and desolate. The blazing sun could never pierce through the layers upon layers of ghost mist to shine upon this land.

This ghost mist posed no hindrance at all to ghost cultivators, but it was extremely detrimental to immortal cultivators.

Once immortal cultivators entered the Western Nether Continent, the ubiquitous ghost mist would begin to erode their protective astral energy, continually draining their spiritual power. Qi Refinement and Foundation Establishment Realm cultivators would likely exhaust their spiritual power after only a day or two here, their flesh corroded and ruined by the ghost mist until they died.

Thus, very few immortal cultivators came to this continent.

Of course, Spirit Transformation cultivators possessed such formidable spiritual power that they would not care about such slight erosion. They could remain here for quite a long time.

Throughout the Western Nether region, ghostfire could be seen everywhere, while countless low-level specters and ghosts wandered aimlessly about.

Most of them were exceedingly timid and possessed no aggression. At the slightest disturbance, they would flee in panic and hide away. Only after everything had calmed down would they poke their heads out again and drift about.

Yet among the thousands upon thousands of weak specters and ghosts, a few exceptionally vicious fiendish spirits and malevolent ghosts would occasionally be born. They actively devoured the spiritual power of other ghosts, slowly growing stronger themselves, gradually developing rudimentary intelligence, and claiming a territory of their own.

Once these vicious corpses and malevolent ghosts grew powerful, they would gradually take shape and recover their original forms and appearances. They might be the soul of a savage demon wolf, the soul of a