The canyon was vast, silent, and pitch-black, its depths impossible to see. It lay before them like the gaping maw of a Primordial Ferocious Beast.
"This is the place?" Yue Chan was visibly moved, a trace of surprise crossing her face.
The place was eerie. They could clearly see that some kind of subterranean fire had once melted the area around the great rift, leaving it with a glasslike sheen.
"Come on, let's go down!"
The two descended together into the underground abyss. The light grew dimmer and dimmer until they could not see their hands before their faces, as though they had entered a desolate, lifeless universe. It made their skin crawl.
Only after descending more than a hundred li did they approach the bottom and make out vague shapes, illuminated by the hazy flicker of lingering rune light.
"Are these... ruins from Immortal Ancient?" Yue Chan exclaimed in surprise.
It was a field of ruins buried deep underground. Rubble, massive stones, and rusted scraps of iron remained, indicating that people had once lived here.
Moreover, it was extraordinarily vast. The sprawling, magnificent complex of buildings covered too much ground to explore all at once.
Of course, they had mainly come to find the Azure Moon Flame and were not particularly concerned about anything else.
"Hm, that's not right. Some of this looks as though it's just risen from deeper underground," Lin Fan muttered. Fresh earth clung to some of the ruined walls, setting them apart from the rest.
Surprise crossed his face. He opened his Heavenly Eye, circulated his magical power, and extended his divine sense to examine the area. He spotted a fissure with light spilling out of it.
But it was small and had yet to open fully, appearing only faintly. Without Lin Fan's Heavenly Eye,