In the end, Jiang Hai still brought Qin Xiaoxiao along. With a Purple Level Grand Magister of the Divine Sound Department like her protecting Jianan, he at least would not have to worry about Jianan's safety.
Jiang Hai did not want to take Qin Xiaoxiao to the Douluo Continent, but she had shown him kindness, after all. He could only hope that she would abandon the idea while they searched for a way back.
The East Dragon Empire lay in the northwest of the Longqinus Continent, rebuilt around Zither City. Another empire, the Milan Empire, bordered it. Farther north stood the beastman empire led by Zi, the Purple Crystal Behemoth, while to the south lay the Landias Empire and a host of smaller kingdoms and duchies. The Seven Towers of Falan stood where the Three Great Empires of the Longqinus Continent met, southeast of the East Dragon Empire.
The Seven Towers of Falan guarded the passage to the Abyss. Jiang Hai had reached the Longqinus Continent through the spatial turbulence of the Douluo Continent, emerging in the Abyss. If he wanted clues to finding his way back, the Abyss was the only place he could search.
The Abyss possessed vitality of its own. Although the Qin Emperor had led the Longqinus Continent's alliance to defeat it, as long as the Abyss remained intact, it could endlessly absorb the continent's negative energy, and Abyss creatures would continue to emerge without end. At regular intervals, humans would travel through the Two-World Passage to the Abyss to slay its creatures.
Some powerful humans also treated the Abyss as a training ground. Its various native resources were of great use to the human world, particularly to necromancy mages.
Abyss City had already become humanity's largest city in the Abyss, as well as one of