Dead Spirit Tree, Killing Intent Sensing Pill, Canaan City

After leaving the Portable Space, Xiao Yan followed the map, spread his Purple Cloud Wings, and flew at full speed toward Peace Town.

Of course, whenever he encountered a human city, Xiao Yan had to land and proceed on foot, only switching back to the Purple Cloud Wings once he reached an uninhabited area.

Traveling this way, Xiao Yan took three days to fly from Black Mark City to Peace Town.

From the sky, Xiao Yan spotted two majestic mountains in the distance. Beneath the angle formed by those mountains lay a faintly visible town.

Xiao Yan descended from the air and continued on foot along a wide yellow-earth road.

As he gradually approached Peace Town, more and more pedestrians from side roads converged onto the dirt road.

Unlike elsewhere in the Black-Corner Region, where people would start fighting after only a few steps, the pedestrians here followed the rules. Even the fiercest faces forced out a trace of a smile.

Even their speech had become refined and quiet as they obediently lined up and headed toward the town entrance.

That was because Peace Town belonged to Jia Nan Academy, and no one dared cause trouble here.

When Xiao Yan was nearly a hundred meters from the town entrance, his gaze suddenly shifted to the left of the gate, where a great tree stood.

The tree was a hundred meters tall and pitch-black. Its umbrella-like canopy spanned a hundred meters in every direction, and its thick branches were exceptionally developed. Yet there were no leaves on them, only bare limbs.

At that moment, corpses hung from several of the branches. As a light breeze blew, they swayed back and forth, making for a horrifying sight.

Two of the corpses appeared to have been hung there only recently. Drops of blood