He Ping frowned slightly, his gaze fixed on the enormous crater—the giant pit billowing endless black smoke. Still, there was no need to investigate deeply to know that this place had already become a "ghost domain."
A "ghost domain" was an anomalous phenomenon born from the overlap between the Nether Luo Path and the present world. Since that path was the alternate spacetime closest to the present world, such strange occurrences had existed since ancient times and were nothing particularly unusual.
The crater was like an abyssal maw that had torn open the earth. Wanan Village's terrain had long since vanished, leaving behind only a bottomless black pit. The pit was also like a ghost den. The twisting strands of eerie black smoke were all transformed from ferocious yin souls and ghostly entities, vicious beyond compare. Even the surrounding mountains and forests were gradually being assimilated by the Nether Luo Path.
"This is a sign of two worlds overlapping. But by all reason, it cannot last long. With the Great Calamity at hand and the Heavenly Dao in motion, some mutation has been triggered, temporarily connecting the ghost-domain spacetime of the Nether Luo Path to this world..."
There were folk tales of a scholar risking a shortcut through the mountains on his way to the capital for the imperial examinations. Traveling by night, he came upon a mass graveyard, with barren tombs and dry bones strewn everywhere, ghostly netherfire flickering in the gloom. He lost his way within it and, no matter how he walked, could not leave that graveyard. This was what people called a "Ghost Wall."
The scholar walked back and forth until he was exhausted and parched, so he sat down to rest for a moment. Before he knew it, he had fallen asleep. When he woke