Framing and Accountability (Two-in-One, Please Vote)

Chu Kingdom, Demon-Slaying Valley—unlike other sacred cultivation lands and even marketplaces, this place was different.

The mountains and valleys of other places were often blanketed in white mist, hazy with the obscurity of lurking dangers.

This place, however, was entirely covered in gray-black fog, like some cursed land steeped in miasma, making people afraid to approach.

Moreover, the cultivators coming and going through the valley were either vicious-looking figures or slight people completely shrouded in Spirit-Isolating Robes.

Walking the streets, one could even frequently see corpse refinements.

Some of those corpse refinements looked no different from ordinary people, while others were especially grotesque.

When they moved, they rumbled heavily, carrying a weighty chill that also kept people away.

There were an exceptional number of streets in the valley, and they were exceptionally broad. Unlike other marketplaces that deliberately cultivated bustling liveliness, Demon-Slaying Valley's market seemed vast and empty.

Furthermore, the shops on either side sold not only spirit materials and spirit pills, but also corpse refinements—and even purchased the corpses of powerful cultivators.

At this moment, a cultivator in a Spirit-Isolating Robe was walking uneasily down the street.

This man was Ye Jingfeng, a Hidden Peak cultivator of the Ye Family's Heavenly Horse Sea Region, with Foundation Establishment Late Stage cultivation.

As he looked at the shops on both sides, his eyes held both curiosity and apprehension.

After all, people on the streets would even ask whether you wanted fresh corpses.

Such a sight would have been utterly unimaginable anywhere else.

Yet this was the cultivation region controlled by the Heavenly Corpse Sect of the Chu Kingdom, and also the most chaotic prefecture in the Chu Kingdom.

When he reached the end of the street, a small tavern abruptly came into view.

The tavern had only three floors, signifying that