Shi Feiyang and Deng Yin flew together into the Northern Sea, charging straight toward Mystic-Yin Island.
The island lay in the "Black Sea," already close to the North Pole. Less than a hundred thousand li farther North lay this world's geographic North Pole: Eternal Night Island, where sunlight never reached.
The sea here was deep, the winds and waves fierce, and daylight scarce. Sunlight appeared for only six months each year; in winter, darkness lasted for months, so complete that one could not see a hand held before one's face.
After occupying the island, Demon Corpse Gu Chen had moved three great mountains here from elsewhere to expand it. It now stretched more than three hundred li across, with several smaller peaks rising upon it.
Before Deng Yin even arrived, he announced his presence by spitting out a breath of blood qi, staining the sky red.
Gu Chen had already placed wards above the island, where vast black clouds gathered. These were not ordinary clouds condensed from water vapor, but black misfortune baleful qi!
This baleful qi shrouded an area a thousand li across, covering the entire island. The moment an outsider invaded, it would react.
Deng Yin's blood qi immediately stained the surrounding sky red, but it could not redden this bank of black baleful clouds.
He formed a hand seal and cast a spell, condensing the blood qi into blood clouds that churned and pressed inward.
Disturbed, the black misfortune baleful qi immediately sprayed dense masses of black misfortune threads outward.
The thickest threads were broader than wagon wheels, like black pythons or countless tentacles extended by some terrifying monster. They lengthened without cease, reaching to seize Shi Feiyang and Deng Yin.
The finest threads were one-tenth the thickness of a hair, grayish white and almost invisible. Carried