Through Mo Qing and Feng Xu's explanations, Lin Mo had come to know the terrain of the Nine Netherworlds Abyss like the back of his hand.
Ever since the Netherworld's invasion ten thousand years ago, all the fertile soil of the Nine Netherworlds Continent had been transformed into a marsh stretching ten thousand miles.
Apart from the divine hall at its center, the entire ten-thousand-mile expanse was an unchanging sea of mud.
Only the four outer boundaries had their own distinctive features, owing to the influence of the Immortal Venerables' remnant souls and the evil spirits' treasures.
The Northern Court held the Fish-Dragon Mystic Marsh, the Western Court the Chaos Poison Marsh, the Southern Court the Hundred-Ghost Evil Marsh, and the Eastern Court the Heavenly Baleful Cloud Marsh.
The remnant souls left behind on the Nine Netherworlds Continent by the Four Sages Immortal Venerables were imprisoned in these four border courts.
Lin Mo had already resolved to rescue the remnant souls of the Four Sages Immortal Venerables from those border courts before the Nine Bone Nether Venerable returned.
Since all the Nether Guards and Evil Generals had been ordered to hold the Netherbone Divine Hall, most of the other soul slaves also huddled nearby, unwilling to venture out.
As a result, they encountered no obstacles along the way and reached their first destination without hindrance.
The Northern Court, the Fish-Dragon Mystic Marsh.
Compared with an ordinary mire, the Fish-Dragon Mystic Marsh was far more turbulent.
Elsewhere, the marshes were thick with sluggish mud, lifeless and still, and could be walked across normally.
But once they entered the Fish-Dragon Mystic Marsh, the swamp beneath their feet became as vast and majestic as an ocean. A pungent, fishy wind swept through the air, while waves churned through the muddy water.
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