The Nether-Mystic Expanse.
Bronze Chains stretched through the darkness, binding a Mystic Cauldron tight. Sounds rose from within it from time to time: hooves and claws scraping, teeth knocking together, or something like faint, mournful sobs.
Xu Fayan had not returned here since obtaining the [Heavenly Wilderness Divine Scripture]. After all, this place was terribly sinister, and an Evil Land Bodhisattva maintained a connection to it.
Returning now, he found it even more uncanny.
Since Wind-Riding was impossible here, he walked along the Bronze Chains, each as immense as a river. He climbed all the way to the heights, where he could vaguely make out the enormous cauldron in its entirety.
Cast wholly from bronze, it was covered in Mystic Patterns. The image at its center changed constantly: sometimes an evil creature lurking in a great desert, sometimes flesh and blood standing in the Rotting Sea. Only for the briefest instant did it reveal an image of the four seasons of harmony.
Looking beyond the pitch-black rim, he could just discern that boundless corpse. Its greenish-yellow flesh resembled rotten mud, almost fused with the Great Wilderness Cauldron, the two impossible to part.
"Something has changed."
Xu Fayan's heart jolted slightly as he noticed the anomaly.
When he had come here before, the Nether Sheep's corpse in the cauldron had not been in this state. The boundary between it and the Dharma Treasure sealing it had still been distinct. Now, it looked as though it had rotted completely.
Nurturing earth had no boundaries or limits; its proliferation and encroachment were endless. The fact that the Nether Sheep's corpse had now almost fused with the [Great Wilderness Cauldron] was strange indeed.
As he drew closer to the cauldron, he dimly heard waves of restless sounds again. Nurturing earth energy circulated ceaselessly through