Towering mountains stretched on without end, spreading across untold thousands of miles. Every peak and ridge, every valley and cave brimmed with spirit vitality and stirring auras.
At the end of the mountain ranges, an enormous Spirit Peak stood upon the earth like the spine of the world. Clouds and mist wreathed its slopes, creating a realm that resembled a celestial palace.
This was Bashan, a renowned scenic mountain in Gathering Grotto Continent, a sacred land acknowledged and revered by the entire demon race.
Li Ling and Mu Qingsi sped through it on clouds, mountains and rivers, sun and moon, waterways and forests flashing past like fleeting glimmers and shadows.
Bashan was a vast cluster of blessed lands born from immortal spirits left behind in the mortal world in ancient times. Centered on the Immortal Mountain of its principal peak, a full hundred and eight high-grade energy veins encircled it in the form of ridges, peaks, ravines, underground rivers, and more. They nourished a million-mile expanse, creating the Ten Thousand Great Mountains and their corresponding blessed lands rich in spirit resonance.
Even after humanity rose, established its foundations, and occupied some of these territories, the dominant traditions remained ancient cultivators and shamanic healers like those of the Longevity Hall, who controlled demon beasts or made full use of local resources.
Above Bashan lay a cave heaven called the Demon God Palace. The demon race regarded it as a sanctuary, where demon gods dwelled while their followers governed the mountains outside. The supreme leader and great chieftain of the entire demon alliance was called Lord Bashan.
Since Middle Antiquity, humanity had gradually replaced other species endowed with spirit resonance as the protagonists of heaven and earth. This was one of only two great population centers the demon race still retained. The