The Dou Qi Continent was vast, stretching untold tens of millions of miles from north to south. Without the aid of space wormholes, even a Dou Zun expert relying on flight alone would need who knew how many years to circle it.
Moreover, it contained countless perilous regions. Sometimes, even a Dou Zun expert risked death upon venturing into them.
Aside from the prosperous, wealthy Central Plains and the Northwest Continent, where sects and empires stood in great numbers, the resource-rich Southeast Continent and the densely forested Northeast Continent were also immensely vast.
Yet none of those remote continents possessed quite the same elusive mystery as the Southwest Continent, deep within which lay the Ten Thousand Mountains.
This land, shaped by countless overlapping Mountain Peaks, concealed far too many secrets from the Dou Qi Continent's past. For that very reason, the Southwest Continent was also known as the most complicated and chaotic place on the continent.
Compared to it, the Black-Corner Region might have amounted to no more than a tiny corner.
Gales drove the dark clouds onward, and sheets of rain poured recklessly over the dense mountain forests as though water cost nothing. As a bolt of lightning streaked past, ripples suddenly stirred in the space deep within the rainforest.
Immediately afterward, a spatial passage roughly ten feet long and wide appeared eerily in the sky.
As the spatial passage appeared, a black-robed young man stepped out. Behind him followed two middle-aged men, also dressed in black. One was burly and powerfully built; the other was somewhat thin and small, but wore the insignia of a Fifth-Rank Alchemist on his chest.
Naturally, these two were the Black Seal City Lord and the Fifth-Rank Alchemist Liao Du, who had long coveted the Poison Saint Ruins.
As for the black-robed young