Outside Ten Thousand Souls Valley lay a barren stretch of the Gobi Desert.
Han Li carried the Yin Luo Sect disciples whose cultivation had been sealed, dragging them like dead dogs through the swirling yellow sand. Rather than returning immediately to Heavenly Mechanism City, he followed the route plundered from the gaunt elder's memories toward the most desolate "death zone" in Great Jin's Northern Territory-the Void Rift.
The spatial structure here was extremely unstable, and the air carried a faint yet heart-rattling sensation of space tearing apart. Any ordinary person who stepped into this place would instantly be ground to dust by the raging spatial turbulence.
"Xiang Zhili... Daoist Ancient..." Han Li murmured, turning the two names over on his tongue. From the fragments of the gaunt Yin Luo Sect elder's memories, he had learned of Xiang Zhili, a rogue cultivator at the peak of the Deity Transformation early stage who lived here in seclusion. This man possessed Great Jin's most advanced secret spatial arts and could even travel freely between Great Jin and its Northern Territory. He was precisely the person Han Li most needed to consult.
Suddenly, a violent fluctuation rippled through the space ahead, as though a huge boulder had been hurled into a tranquil lake. Immediately afterward, a murky gray space rift split open without warning. A powerful suction erupted from within, attempting to swallow Han Li and the Yin Luo Sect disciples together!
"Hmph!"
A cold gleam flashed through Han Li's eyes. Rather than drawing on his spiritual power, he pushed the Brahma Saint True Demonic Art to its utmost limit! The dark-gold, glassy sheen covering his body abruptly flared. Beneath his skin, countless intricate dark-gold markings writhed and burrowed madly like horned dragons brought to life!
"True Demon Qi · Heaven-Devouring Earth-Eater!"
He spread