A day later, in a mountain range between Blackstone City and the black desert, He Zhiping opened his eyes inside a hastily carved cave.
After entering the trading house, he had taken many jade slips. None contained cultivation methods or other secret arts. They were all relatively inexpensive introductions to the customs and geography of the Violet Thorn Great World and the Black Sand Domain.
He had no Spirit Stones or Immortal Crystals, so he had not stayed at an inn in Blackstone City or rented a temporary cave residence.
Instead, he had gone to a mountain range not far from the city, one he had spotted while flying there from the black desert.
Few cultivators passed through the area. He chose a spot halfway up a cliff and casually carved out a cave.
After placing a restriction over the entrance, he settled down to read the jade slips he had obtained from the trading house.
By the end of the day, He Zhiping had gained a basic understanding of this world.
As it turned out, this world was not the Primordial Ancient Continent described in the records of the Eternal Night Divine Hall.
According to those records, the Primordial Ancient Continent was home to many experts beyond the Daluo Golden Immortal realm.
In this world, however, the highest anyone could reach—whether in ancient times or now—was the Daluo Golden Immortal realm.
That alone told He Zhiping that this could not be the Primordial Ancient Continent recorded in the Eternal Night Divine Hall.
Even so, the Violet Thorn Great World was vast beyond measure.
Compared with it, the Cultivation World they had once inhabited was a single drop in a boundless ocean.
The Violet Thorn Great World had 361 great domains, each immense in its own right. The continent where