Across an endless expanse, enormous cliffs lay piled in layer upon layer, crisscrossing every which way. Below them yawned vast, uneven pits, from which the furious roars of savage demon beasts rang out from time to time.
In the sky, three streaks of escape light sped over this boundless stretch of cliffs...
Ye Han glanced at the red-haired female cultivator beside him, feeling a little wistful. She was the very woman who had greeted him when he first arrived at Heavenly Mirror Immortal City.
Later, when the Heavenly Profound Star King summoned everyone for the trial selection, he had encountered her again at the mouth of the valley.
Given how brutal the second stage in the Desolate Valley had been, he had thought the red-haired female cultivator must have perished there.
After all, only six of the thirty-one cultivators had survived the second stage. Moreover, the trial had primarily tested their physical bodies, and female cultivators had always been at a disadvantage when it came to body tempering.
Of course, different races were another matter and could not be lumped together. The books Ye Han had read mentioned a race called the female barbarian race, whose female cultivators possessed exceptionally powerful bodies, and among whom people were rarely born singly.
There were even rumors that they were both male and female in one body. Naturally, Ye Han did not know the truth of it.
That race did not exist in the Heavenly Spirit Realm.
Thus, Ye Han had always assumed the red-haired female cultivator had long since perished. Yet this time, when Old Ancestor Yuwen invited him over to discuss the Heavenly Profound Star King's arrangements...
The red-haired female cultivator had already arrived. She was one of the helpers the Heavenly Profound Star King had assigned him, and her name