"The Eleventh Layer of the Mysterious Wasteland Tower is actually where the Guifang Imperial Capital stands on this continent within the tower."
"According to the inscription on the Wordless Stele, after Guifang's defeat, the Imperial Clan sacrificed the entire nation's people to the Ghost Gods, ultimately drawing the ghost horde across its borders. Even the legendary Ghost Gods crossed the void to come here."
"These Ghost Gods refined Guifang's ordinary people into an army of corpse wraiths, which began assembling around the Guifang Imperial Capital. In less than half a year, nearly a million corpse wraiths had gathered around the capital."
"If they were allowed to continue unchecked, there would be at least another million corpse wraiths in another half year. Who could still stand against them?"
"To keep the situation from deteriorating further, the Ningyuan Kingdom's court summoned the three armies of the Vermilion Bird, Black Tortoise, and White Tiger to besiege Guifang."
"Under the Northern Garrison Manor's command, these three armies seized cities and strongholds, fighting all the way to the Guifang Imperial Capital. They prepared for a decisive battle on Crane Crossing Plain before the capital against the remaining six hundred thousand corpse wraiths led by Goshu Miu."
"As long as the three armies could break through the corpse wraith army's defenses, fight their way into the Guifang Imperial Capital, and interrupt that sacrifice, the corpse wraith army would collapse without further attack."
On a hill on the Eleventh Floor of the Mysterious Wasteland Tower, Gu Qingcheng gazed at the broad plain of lush green grass before her as she explained the situation on this floor to Xu Taiping, Dugu Qingxiao, Mu Yun, Xuanzhi, and the others beside her.
Besides Mu Yun, Xuanzhi, and the other cultivators who had followed Xu Taiping here, Blade Slave was conspicuously