The Yellow Sand Minor Realm.
Amid the yellow sand filling the sky, specks of spirit sand occasionally glittered like stars, then vanished. This was Wutu spirit sand, unique to the Yellow Sand Minor Realm, with many uses in artifact refining and body cultivation.
A blood-robed Daoist walked through the sandstorm. Wind and sand blew through his body without affecting him.
Demon beasts such as keen, wary hyena-lizards crawled past from time to time, but none noticed him.
"The center of the Yellow Sand Minor Realm is a place called the Yellow Sand Sacred City. Its strongest figure is King Sand Overflow of the Flame Stone Family. He sided with the Azure Sky Imperial Son late in the war."
Jiang Ding strolled slowly through the blowing sand toward the Yellow Sand Sacred City.
Eight years had passed.
Jiang Ding had kept watch on the Azure Sky Imperial Son's army in the Demon Vine Minor World. Seeing no sign that it would split up and finding no opening, he had left.
Over the following years, his footsteps had taken him through every minor world occupied by the Azure Sky Imperial Son, stirring up chaos wherever he went.
Naturally, he could not teleport. He relied on arrangements left by the Flame Stone Family.
The Flame Stone Family had ruled this star region for tens of thousands of years. Losing its minor worlds did not mean it had lost all control. Numerous hidden measures and spies remained in place. Once outside forces appeared, those hidden measures would awaken one by one. Its foundations ran extraordinarily deep.
This was the flaw in having no Boundary-Fixing Formation: it was difficult to establish complete control over a minor world.
After he passed through one stretch of desert, the wind and sand briefly subsided.
Before him lay an