Over seven days of travel, Bai Yu saw countless corpses scattered across the fallen black earth. Some skeletons were like mountains, half-buried underground. Though the remaining halves had not weathered away, they had long since lost all spirituality.
Looking at those scattered remains, Hongnongzi felt deeply troubled. He might have known these beings while they were alive, but times had changed, and everything had been altered by the Evil Calamity Clan.
On the seventh day, Tree Jiao began to slow. Howling winds swept across the land, and when they looked ahead, they saw a city on the distant earth that stretched beyond sight.
The city was vast beyond description. From afar, it resembled an ancient colossal beast sprawled across the ground, the evil aura emanating from it enough to make one's hair stand on end.
Merely drawing near, Bai Yu sensed that the space above the city was fractured, with terrifying auras appearing and fading from time to time.
"Is this Evil Corpse City?"
Li Shuyu gazed at the boundless city, her voice grave.
The city before them covered more ground than most of Upperstream's main cities. Without a long period of development, it would have been impossible to reach such a scale.
And there were eight such cities throughout the entire Starry Sky Ancient Road!
"During the ancient war, eight great powers led the cultivators of the Eternal Continent in jointly suppressing the Starry Sky Ancient Road. The city before us may be the ruins they once guarded."
"The Evil Calamity Clan used these ruins as a foundation to establish outposts."
Hongnongzi analyzed.
Bai Yu nodded grimly. No wonder, when the Saint King communicated with the lingering wills of Turbid Sword Venerable and the others, the eight had actually summoned the remnant thoughts of the entire Starry Sky Ancient