As the Nirvana Nine Tribulations Lord, how could the Undying Lord have left himself no contingencies? Before the Skyward Gang Sect suppressed him, he had released hundreds of Devouring Essences.
These so-called Devouring Essences...
They were essences imbued with a trace of the Undying Lord's Devouring Great Dao. Each possessed a measure of intelligence, and within each one, he had hidden a map.
That map marked the entrance to the Great Gang Hidden Land!
Unfortunately...
Ten thousand years had passed, and no one had brought a Devouring Essence and followed its map to the Great Gang Hidden Land.
It was not that no one had obtained a Devouring Essence. An Ancestor of the Myriad Phenomena Hall, for instance, had acquired one and learned of the map within it.
But...
Knowing a map existed did not mean one could find the Great Gang Hidden Land.
No one knew what place the map depicted.
Had Qin Hao not come to the Skyward Gang Relic, even he would not have known what the map inside the Devouring Essence represented.
It took Fortune.
Of course, arriving with a Devouring Essence might not have been good Fortune, either. The Undying Lord might simply have swallowed whoever brought it.
"No wonder you've made some progress in Body Refinement." The Undying Lord glanced at Qin Hao, then looked away.
Qin Hao's Body Refinement merely rivaled the Ninth Layer of Saint Martial Realm. Even if it had reached the level of a Venerable, the Undying Lord would have spared him no more than a second glance.
Perhaps it would have pleased him for a moment—more flesh and blood to consume—but that was all. It could not truly stir his interest.
Beside Qin Hao stood Chen Jianqing, Mu Ziqing, and Ji Yue.
The Undying Lord's gaze soon moved to