Ancient Dead Sea, Merit of Following the Dragon

Beneath the vast sky, withered grass carpeted the ground. The earth was cracked, deathly still, without the slightest hint of green.

Fang Shu and Protector Bai were both cloaked as they trudged laboriously through this place.

They had also reined in all the spiritual power in their bodies, relying only on their legs to travel.

Though their pace was slow, after reaching this frontier land, it seemed slow but was in fact swift, allowing them to avoid the pursuers behind them more easily.

"This frontier land alone is already so bitterly cold, with such thin spiritual energy. Black winds and white hairs often sweep through, muddling one's mind. I wonder whether the Vast Sea region will be even more desolate and inhospitable... Protector Bai, have you truly decided to leave the Vast Sea and never return to Floating Mountain?"

A gauze scarf shielded Fang Shu's face from the wind and sand, and his voice came out muffled.

She heard him, but her reply was calm and composed.

"What Daoist Hu said is both true and false. The reason the road beyond the frontier is so difficult is connected to the great war of ancient times. For instance, the place ahead called the 'Dead Sea' is said to have been created when ancient Daoists cast their arts, causing an unknown number of immortals to perish here. To this day, all life has been extinguished and spiritual energy has vanished. It is profoundly inauspicious, and mindless, vicious, grotesque water ghosts have even arisen within its waters. They are exceedingly terrifying.

"Yet once we cross the Dead Sea and reach the Vast Sea, although life remains scarce in the desert, oases are scattered throughout, spiritual energy thrives, and there are other hidden heavens as well."

Fang Shu nodded upon hearing her words.

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