"What sort of place is Demonfall Valley?"
Song Wen frowned slightly. He had never heard of this secret realm.
"You're an Integrated Body Realm Cultivator, yet you've never heard of Demonfall Valley?" Rong Shao seemed somewhat surprised.
Song Wen shook his head slightly.
He had arrived in Yujiang Province only a few years ago, and had spent most of that time either cultivating in seclusion or plotting against the Rong Clan's practitioners of the Corpse King Blood Refinement Art. He knew little of Yujiang Province's secrets.
"Though called a secret realm, Demonfall Valley is actually a rift valley. Poisonous miasma shrouds it all year round, so virulent that it eats away at bones and melts souls. Even Integrated Body Realm Cultivators like you and me wouldn't dare come into contact with it lightly. Deep within the rift, there is also dense netherworld qi. Where the poisonous miasma and netherworld qi mingle, all sorts of powerful ghosts and venomous insects breed. Danger lurks on every side; it's an exceptionally perilous place. However..."
Rong Shao paused briefly before continuing.
"It's precisely because the valley's poisonous miasma and yin qi are so potent that it produces large quantities of highly toxic spirit herbs and yin-aspected spirit materials."
"Since Demonfall Valley holds so many treasures of heaven and earth, surely the Rong Clan and the Divine Blood Sect have long since claimed it for themselves. An outsider like me wouldn't be allowed in, would I?" Song Wen asked.
Demonfall Valley lay on Yujiang Province's southwestern frontier, and Cangwu Province happened to lie to its southwest. Both western and southern Yujiang Province fell under the Rong Clan's jurisdiction, while the Rong Clan was itself constrained by the Divine Blood Sect. Moreover, all of Cangwu Province lay within the Divine Blood Sect's sphere of influence. Thus,