Several days later, after lingering in Xingxiu's embrace for a long time, Hun Changqing finally left the Dou Di Ruins where he had spent an entire year. Under her reluctant gaze as she looked back three times with every step, he set off for the Netherworld Hall in the Black-Corner Region.
Black-Corner Region
The notoriously fearsome Demon Flame Mountain Range, originally situated in the heart of the Black-Corner Region, had been occupied by the Netherworld Hall more than a year ago. It had since been renamed the Netherworld Mountain Range, and its sinister reputation had only grown.
Over the past year, following the plans Hun Changqing had left before his departure and relying on Medusa's decisive, ruthless methods, the Netherworld Hall had begun expanding aggressively, plundering resources and seizing territory. Nearly half the factions in the Black-Corner Region had become its vassals, and it was showing signs of becoming the region's overlord.
Moreover, the Netherworld Hall's ambitions were not confined to the Black-Corner Region. After occupying more than half of it, the hall had begun spreading outward into the surrounding lands. Not only had its fearsome reputation spread across almost the entire Northwest Continent, but the fame of Medusa, its Deputy Hall Master, had spread alongside it. Ruthless in her methods, with a heart like a snake or scorpion, yet possessing peerless beauty, she was known to virtually every cultivator on the Northwest Continent for both her beauty and her cruelty.
The reason the Netherworld Hall could act so brazenly and still triumph at every turn had much to do with its Hall Master, a Dou Zun expert. According to the rumors, he had personally slain several High-Rank Dou Zong from the Soul Palace, along with the Seven-Star Dou Zong Earth Demon Old Ghost, through overwhelming force in what had