Xu Yan stood quietly in place, his gaze distant as he stared into the depths of the Ancient Demon Abyss.
According to Kong Xuan's fragmented memories, the Ancient Demon Race had appeared suddenly in this world.
After enduring in the Azure Spirit Realm for over a hundred thousand years, they had been wiped out overnight, and their ancestral grounds had become a Forbidden Ground in the Jade Radiance Kingdom.
Though the Ancient Demon Race had few members, every one of them had been extraordinarily powerful. Even in the ancient Azure Spirit Realm, they had ranked among the mightiest races.
In Kong Xuan's memories, the power of the Ancient Demon Race had left a profound impression on him.
This was all the information about the Ancient Demon Race that Xu Yan had obtained from Kong Xuan's memories. It was barely better than nothing, hardly enough to glimpse the whole leopard through a narrow tube.
Following Xu Yan's gaze into the distance, there was little to see.
Streams of poisonous mist rose into the air, shrouding the entire landscape in black fog and obscuring everything within it.
He tried extending his divine sense, but it could go no farther once it reached roughly twenty zhang from his body.
Outside, his divine sense could easily reach a hundred zhang. This showed just how severely the Ancient Demon Abyss suppressed a cultivator's divine sense.
Just as he withdrew his gaze, a patch of fresh green nearby caught his attention.
"Six-Leaf Soul-Returning Grass!" Xu Yan recognized the Spirit Herb before him.
The emerald-green Spirit Herb stood about one foot and two inches tall, its entire body radiating a soft green glow. Six leaves grew at its tip, each the size of a baby's palm.
Those six leaves meant the herb was already sixty years old,