Lu Mian had observed the eerie black-jade tree from a considerable distance the entire time.
As a result, no one in the tribe of Weird Beings had ever noticed his presence, and he left without any trouble.
After putting several dozen li between himself and the tribe, Lu Mian summoned Shadow Treader and continued racing toward the Burning Heaven Mountain Range.
Shadow Treader was a little faster than he was at full speed. After traveling for half the night, he finally caught sight of an ancient mountain range.
The mountains did not look majestic. They were perfectly ordinary.
In fact, after so many years, vitality had long since returned to the Burning Heaven Mountain Range. It looked like any ordinary mountain range, the kind found all over the Wilds Great Plain.
Even within the Burning Heaven Mountain Range itself, there were probably few people left who knew the story of how it had once burned through the heavens.
Songmingzi had also said that he had happened to hear the story while traveling through the Wilds Great Plain years ago. That was what had brought him to the Burning Heaven Mountain Range, where he had actually found this broken secret realm.
"Finally here."
"I wonder if that secret realm is still around."
Lu Mian took a deep breath.
As the saying went, seas became fields.
Nothing could endure forever in the face of time.
Even Heaven itself could die, let alone a secret realm.
He would have to see the secret realm for himself to learn what condition it was in.
Carrying Lu Mian, Shadow Treader bounded swiftly through the steep mountain forests.
Its leaping ability was astonishing. In less than an incense stick's worth of time, it had reached the deepest part of the Burning Heaven Mountain Range, atop its