Fang Qianyuan could not linger in the city indefinitely, so he checked out of his room early that morning and set off.
He planned to continue east, crossing a ten-thousand-league wasteland called the Greenstone Plains.
The Greenstone Plains covered a vast expanse and had a long history. Legend held that it had been an ancient battlefield where various powers had fought demons before the decline of the Dharma. A mighty practitioner of the arcane path had unleashed a supreme divine ability that overturned Yin-Yang, permanently transforming an entire sea of forest into barren, stony wilderness. From then on, human habitation had vanished, and the region had become a refuge for wild beasts, spirits, demons, and ghosts.
Of the most famous places in the Greenstone Plains, foremost was undoubtedly the Greenstone Demon Cave, a stretch of Demonized Lands in their deepest reaches.
It connected to an Otherworld Grotto-Heaven, home to countless monsters, spirits, demons, and ghosts that occasionally emerged to roam about and devour living beings.
The great war before the decline of the Dharma had revolved around that place.
An upheaval of the earth had once caused it to appear in the mortal world, much like the Lesser Grotto-Heaven north of Xuanyue City. To keep it from bringing disaster upon the world, experts from every faction had paid an enormous price to seal it. But the breach had been far too large, and tiny fissures still occasionally leaked demonic qi, contaminating the surrounding region. Demons even escaped directly through them, and the place remained dangerous to this day.
Surrounding the entire Greenstone Demon Cave was the ancient battlefield, which spanned a thousand leagues. From the great hills at its edges to the demon cave deep at its center, bones lay buried everywhere, alongside the lost weapons and Magic Treasures of