The Eight Wastelands were truly a peculiar stretch of heaven and earth.
"What... is this?"
He seemed unable to believe it, or perhaps unwilling to believe it. A realm of heaven and earth actually had such a method of repayment.
Standing on a patch of lush green grass beside a winding stream of emerald water, the handsome young man sounded calm and composed.
Yet the flicker in his eyes revealed that his heart was anything but calm.
Li Beiyun had been here for ten years.
At his level of cultivation, keeping his composure had long since ceased to be a problem.
Yet when he saw the providence above his head suddenly thin by a fraction, his brows still twitched sharply, and his heartbeat nearly lost its usual steadiness.
Humanity-Dao White Marsh stepped on its right foot with its left, then stamped on the grass beside it.
It looked anxious and ill at ease.
Catching a glimpse of Li Beiyun's expression, as gloomy as a black cloud, it inwardly cried out that things were going badly.
I'm done for, done for! How was I supposed to know that debt repayment in the Eight Wastelands depended on who you were?
And that it would work like this!
It had always prided itself on its wisdom.
Now, however, Humanity-Dao White Marsh felt it ought to be a little more modest. Otherwise, if another problem cropped up next time, things would become a real spectacle.
"Ahem, this news spread to the other regions long ago, so..."
Humanity-Dao White Marsh fished out a palm-sized piece of floating light and flicked through it with its divine sense.
A shimmering post from the Nine Heavens Cultivation Realm's gossip and curiosities section occupied the highest, most conspicuous position.
It opened the post.
The contents were all about