With a swish, light flashed, and everyone vanished in an instant, leaving that section within the city walls.
When they opened their eyes again, they were no longer inside Emperor Pass.
Everyone stood on a vast expanse of land, boundless and stretching beyond sight.
Looking back, they saw chaos surging in waves like an ocean. Farther back stood the immense city, deep in the heavens beyond the Chaos Sea.
"Is our entire world on the other side of the Chaos Sea?" someone exclaimed, utterly stunned.
"So this is outside the pass?"
Only now did they truly come to their senses and look ahead. Like the new recruits under Luo Yan, they shuddered at the sight. This was their first time leaving the pass.
The scene before them resembled an old, desolate ink painting: dead trees, broken branches, withered yellow weeds, and heaps of white bones.
A lone plume of smoke rose straight above the vast desert; the setting sun hung round over the long river!
The rugged, unrestrained scene imprinted itself on everyone's minds.
Above the endless Great Gobi, a blood-red setting sun hung high in the sky like an eternal, undying savage beast, crimson and eerily beautiful as it loomed over the horizon.
Even Luo Yan was shaken. Despite everything he had seen, this sight still filled him with alarm.
Beacon fires burned here and there, lit by those who had come before, as though they had never gone out in millions of years.
"Is that the legendary Yellow Springs?" A cultivator swallowed hard as he looked toward the great river in the distance.
Its waters thundered past, raising wave after towering wave, with gleaming white skeletons tumbling within them.
The river was vividly, eerily red, as though the blood of gods flowed through it, as though immortal beings