The mighty "army of plunderers" set out from Blackstone Town.
The procession seethed with fervor, as though what lay ahead was not the Dao Yan Sacred Land, whose might shook the world, but a fat sheep waiting to be slaughtered.
And so your band of cultivators headed straight from Blackstone Town to Central Province.
Since Blackstone Town itself stood on the edge of Blazing Sun Province, your journey to Central Province did not take you through the Blazing Sun Sacred Land.
Only then did you learn that Blackstone Town actually lay between the Dao Yan Sacred Land and the Blazing Sun Sacred Land.
No, that was wrong. Blackstone Town was actually caught in the cracks between all four sacred lands!
You walked at the very front, your gaze hollow but your steps unusually firm.
The farther you walked, the more familiar the surrounding terrain became.
Barren ridges, twisted ancient trees, strange spiritual energy faintly stirring in the air... Everything awakened memories buried deep within you.
The Secret Realm in the Myriad Beasts Mountain Range.
For a moment, you felt as though you had returned to the previous simulation.
This scenery looked so much like... like the Secret Realm in the Myriad Beasts Mountain Range!
Only this time, your position was exactly the same as Chen Qingyan's. In the last simulation, you and Chen Qingyan had been trapped there, with dead ends in every direction and murderous intent at every step.
Back then, you had been a pawn forced onto the board, while Chen Qingyan had been both the player moving the pieces and the one trying to break free of the game, struggling to survive amid four fatal paths to the east, west, south, and north.
Now, your roles had reversed.
You had become the one "leading everyone down a