A forbidden ground hidden in Cloudmist's deep gorge, a divine body forged from mysterious yellow Breath Soil

Three thousand li south of Heavenly Abyss City.

The scenery here was utterly unlike the prosperous, peaceful Heavenly Abyss District. As far as the eye could see, there were only rolling stretches of barren mountains and bald ridges.

With demonic unrest intensifying across the provincial governments of the Great Zhou Immortal Dynasty, this border region between Qingzhou and the Divine Capital had long since become a lawless land ruled by bandits and wandering cultivators.

Dusk fell over a long, narrow, unfathomably deep gorge that stretched across the vast earth, as though an ancient giant spirit had cleaved it open with a single stroke of an axe.

This was Cloudmist Grand Canyon.

At the canyon entrance stood a crooked, ancient boundary marker. The inscription upon it—"Cloudmist's deep gorge: no entry for the living"—had long since been eroded into illegibility by wind and sand.

"Crunch, crunch."

Soft, measured footsteps sounded amid the silent heaps of broken stone.

A young cultivator in a coarse blue robe and bamboo hat approached the canyon's edge at an unhurried pace, an ordinary iron sword strapped to his back.

His sallow face looked utterly unremarkable, and he radiated the faint, impure aura of the eighth level of qi refining.

This blue-robed cultivator was none other than Chu Bai, who had altered his appearance and slipped south in secret.

"Such dense mysterious yellow qi..."

Chu Bai stood at the cliff's edge, his eyes narrowing beneath his bamboo hat.

Before him, thick mist tinged with pale ocher churned throughout the deep canyon, which spanned several li in width.

The mist was immensely heavy. Rather than ordinary water vapor, it seemed to consist of countless tiny grains of sand, pressing heavily against the ground. Even fierce winds could not disperse it.

This was the "Mysterious Yellow Heavy Mist" Granduncle Ji