After leaving the Grand Xuan Sect, Su Mo continued flying west.
He still had to retrieve another spirit sword. Once he found it, he could return to the Azure Divine Palace.
Once he returned, the Azure Divine Palace could immediately emerge into the world.
Su Mo traveled by Sword Flight, sitting cross-legged atop the spirit sword. He devoted a sliver of his consciousness to controlling it, then focused wholeheartedly on consolidating his cultivation.
After flying like this for five days, Su Mo sensed that he was already very close to his spirit sword. With only about one more day of travel, he should arrive.
Su Mo immediately ended his cultivation and accelerated forward.
As he traveled onward, Su Mo discovered that the land below was becoming increasingly barren. The earth was cracked, the vegetation withered, and all signs of life had vanished.
Moreover, he had not seen a single city for over a hundred thousand miles.
"What is going on here?"
Su Mo wore a puzzled expression. Why was this place so desolate?
However, Su Mo had no leisure to investigate. Finding his Destined Spirit Sword as quickly as possible was what mattered.
He continued flying, and after more than half a day, Su Mo was utterly astonished.
Everywhere he passed now, the land was almost completely barren, without so much as a blade of grass, as though he had entered a vast desert.
By this time, he was already extremely close to his Destined Spirit Sword, less than five hundred thousand miles away.
Su Mo did not stop and continued flying. Only after a long while did he finally halt.
At that moment, directly below him lay an enormous abyss in the earth.
The entrance to the abyss was oval-shaped, spanning more than ten thousand zhang in every direction.