On the Wildlands Continent, a precipitous peak pierced the clouds and mist, towering above the cloud tops.
A spirit bird alighted on the summit and silently gazed ahead, searching for prey hidden in the abysses and cliff faces.
Anyone who observed it closely would have noticed an unusual spiritual gleam in its pupils, and might even have glimpsed transparent spaces and indistinct human figures within.
Those figures were naturally Ye Jingcheng and Ye Zhijian, hiding inside the Grotto-Heaven.
The spirit bird was a Cold Li Roc that Ye Zhijian had brought under his control here through a blood pact.
This spirit roc had a low cultivation level, but it was a rare cold-attribute demonic roc, and the most common kind around the nearby abysses.
Ahead, abyss after abyss was divided by peaks that resembled islands.
The Light-Hanging Abyss was not merely a single abyss, but hundreds clustered together—an archipelago of abysses.
The Light-Hanging Abyss owed its fame to being the largest among them. Its depths were unfathomable, and even without reaching the bottom, surging cold and gusts of baleful wind assailed visitors.
Vast numbers of malevolent ghosts and zombie spirits bred there.
For evil cultivators, this place could be called sacred ground.
Of course, this sacred ground also constantly drew cultivators in to swell the ranks of its zombie spirits and ghost spirits.
Ordinary cultivators with weak constitutions could not even move about inside.
"It's a shame we didn't bring Tengan up. He should be the best in the Lineage at refining corpses and zombies," Ye Zhijian said regretfully.
Back when they were in the Central Region, the Ye Family had needed to confront evil cultivators, so some members of the Lineage had practiced evil cultivation methods.
But after the Ye Family became an immortal sect of the Great Yu