Western Domain, Blood Pool.
This place lay in the deepest reaches, roughly fifteen million kilometers from the Upper Domain.
The geographical environment here was exceptionally peculiar.
The entire Blood Pool was enclosed within an unbroken chain of mountains.
The mountains here were incredibly tall.
They pierced straight into the clouds, stretching an unknown number of miles. Some had once flown upward, yet after several days, still failed to see their end.
On this side of the mountains, all was calm—so quiet that it scarcely seemed like the depths. It was as though all the dangers of the surrounding lands had been gathered behind this massive mountain range, within the Blood Pool it encircled.
There, the eye beheld nothing but blood and carnage.
Legend had it that this place was connected to the fabled Sea of Blood. Before the ancient Primordial World, after the ancient god Pangu died upon opening Heaven, it had formed from the filth beneath his navel.
This Blood Pool was incomparably vast. Even a Taiyi cultivator running at full speed for a month would still be unable to reach its end.
There was only an endless sea of blood, seemingly boundless.
If not for the occasional islands of differing shapes that could serve as markers, one might well begin to wonder whether they had fallen into an illusory formation and become trapped here.
Of course, the Blood Pool was not merely vast, nor was it simply filled with an abundance of blood.
In truth, shadows could faintly be seen darting through the boundless bloody waters.
They were incredibly swift, vanishing in the blink of an eye.
At times, there would be countless numbers of them—tens of thousands, even hundreds of thousands—packed densely together, drifting an immeasurable distance away in an instant.
At other times, they would be