Boundless Wasteland.
Vast and boundless, it stretched for untold billions of miles.
It lay between Candle Dragon Province and Cangwu Province, forming the border between the two provinces.
South of Candle Dragon Province was Scarlet Firmament Province—the very Scarlet Firmament Province from which Song Wen had once taken a teleportation array to the Western Rong Continent.
Further south of Scarlet Firmament Province lay Southern Nether Province.
Though it bore the name "Wasteland," the Boundless Wasteland was not truly barren. On the contrary, it contained many plains and hilly regions blessed with favorable weather.
Countless mortals lived and worked here in peace.
The term "wasteland" was only fitting from a cultivator's perspective.
Spiritual qi in the Boundless Wasteland was thin to the point of near nonexistence. Let alone cultivators, even mortals possessing spiritual roots were rarely seen.
To cultivators, this place was a dead zone. Living here for long would inevitably cause one's cultivation to stagnate—or even regress.
Amid a range of towering mountains in the Boundless Wasteland, the summit of one peak had been artificially shaved flat, revealing a broad platform.
A Primordial Essence-Devouring Formation, inscribed upon Hundred-Forged Azure Profound Gold, had been placed atop the platform.
Song Wen sat cross-legged at the center of the Hundred-Forged Azure Profound Gold, surrounded by ring after ring of high-grade spirit stones.
The spiritual qi within the spirit stones was drawn out by the formation patterns, transforming into visible vortices of spiritual mist. The qi density within the formation was astonishingly high, and droplets of liquid spiritual dew had already condensed. Together with the hazy spiritual mist, they became a solid stream of white light with Song Wen's long, steady breaths, pouring into his nose and mouth.
Song Wen had chosen to make his breakthrough in the Boundless Wasteland precisely because of its