"This... doesn't seem quite right."
Aboard the Red-Earth Yu Warship, which was approaching a settlement, Yin Yuling seemed to have seen something unbelievable. Confusion crossed his face. "When the Great Calamity first struck decades ago, before the factions in the Eastern Wastes had settled, I visited this place. What I saw was hell on earth." "How has Cavefire Monastery's territory become so lively and peaceful after just thirty-odd years?"
Yin Yuling was astonished. Apart from the gloom caused by the absence of a sun, this place looked little different from the world before the Great Calamity. Even in lands ruled by the Demonic Path, such a sight was far from common.
"Or has Cavefire Monastery quietly defected to the Demonic Path? I've never heard anything about it."
Zhou Kai also looked surprised. His eyes flickered, betraying nothing of his thoughts.
A few breaths later, Zhou Kai said, "Whatever the case, let's go down and take a look."
At Zhou Kai's command, the Red-Earth Yu Warship shrank to a foot in length, and he stored it in his panel's item inventory.
Yin Yuling, the Blood-Robed Daoist, and the other two heads continued to circle slowly behind Zhou Kai as usual.
In Demonic Path territory, the heads hanging behind Zhou Kai, neither alive nor dead, would still terrify ordinary people.
But in Righteous Path territory, everything changed. Zhou Kai's appearance was not only unremarkable by comparison, it even looked rather understated.
After all, the local cultivators dressed even more extravagantly and strangely than he did.
In the territories of the Shujian Sect and Lishu Sect, for instance, living corpses wandered everywhere. Mutilated people had been made into all manner of tools and buildings, wailing day and night, while the local cultivators and supernaturals lived among them without a care. Zhou Kai could