In the southern reaches of the Jieqing Sect.
Aside from the mist-shrouded Fifty-Thousand-Li Great Marsh, there was another region known as Immortal-Sojourn Valley.
Immortal-Sojourn-the name had quite a history behind it.
Legend had it that in primordial times, when the Cloud-Dream Realm was still a chaos of heaven and earth, an immortal god descended from the Nine Heavens and reshaped the Cloud Dream Realm with supreme divine abilities.
Once heaven and earth grew clear, the immortal god prepared to depart.
It was here, in Immortal-Sojourn Valley, that the immortal god bade farewell to the disciples.
According to legend, that day.
Three thousand disciples knelt prostrate in the valley, desperately pleading for the immortal god to stay.
They pleaded for three full days and nights.
Yet they still failed to change the immortal god's resolve to leave.
The immortal god left only the words, "The great Dao is walked alone," then swept a sleeve and tore through the void, never to be heard from again.
To commemorate this event, later generations named this place Immortal-Sojourn Valley.
Whether the story was true had long since become impossible to determine.
But the name Immortal-Sojourn Valley spread nonetheless.
In truth.
The terrain of Immortal-Sojourn Valley was not all that different from the Fifty-Thousand-Li Great Marsh.
The only difference was that the vast floodwaters so ubiquitous there were absent here; most of this region consisted of endless, precipitous mountains and rivers.
One secluded valley was surrounded by sheer cliffs, without a blade of grass in sight.
Suddenly, a streak of dark light ripped through the clouds and descended with cold indifference.
Bang.
The dark light slammed into the dried-out valley floor, scattering the thick miasma around it.
As the light faded, its true form emerged.
It was a pitch-black dog demon.
The dog demon was