Deep in the Western Wasteland, Azure Sand Sea.
Azure sand stretched in rolling waves, piled into layer upon layer of dunes in the shape of the wind, extending all the way to billions of miles away.
Azure Sand Sea had originally been a vast plain, planted with Cloudwater rice, a specialty of the Western Wasteland. As spiritual qi dissipated, the land, its fertility drained dry by the rice, rapidly turned to sand. In just a few centuries, it had become an enormous desert.
Azure Sand Sea alone had cost the Western Wasteland countless stores of grain and caused the population of the Demon Race dwelling there to plummet over several centuries.
Without spiritual qi to nurture life, Azure Sand Sea had become a boundless land of death.
When Taiyi Devil Master fell from the Heavenly Realm, he had deliberately chosen Azure Sand Sea. He liked its desolate, deathly stillness and its blue-green sands.
The earth-shaking battle in the Southern Wilderness had long since alerted Taiyi Devil Master. Standing atop a sand dune, he calmly gazed toward the Southern Wilderness.
No matter how greatly the spiritual qi of heaven and earth dwindled, Taiyi Devil Master could still, by virtue of his thirteenth-rank divine powers, see many details of the battle—see the young cultivator named Gao Xian joining the Three Sovereigns in besieging the Lord of Primal Devils.
Seeing the Lord of Primal Devils radiating an intense light of life, Taiyi Devil Master knew that Primal Devil was finished. Yet his incomparably beautiful face remained tranquil, and his emerald eyes shone like bright, flawless jewels, without the slightest ripple of emotion.
A cold wind from the northwest howled past, carrying billowing clouds of sand and dust as it swept up Taiyi Devil Master's waist-length snow-white hair.
The lingering glow of the setting