A small village lay a few miles from the Dark Swamp. In his youth, White Bone Venerable had discussed with several companions from the same village and gone to the Dark Swamp to gather medicinal herbs for his sick mother.
No one had expected that once they went, they would never return.
That day, a great fog had risen over the Dark Swamp, so dense it could scarcely disperse, and the group lost their way within it.
By the time the fog finally cleared, they had become completely trapped in the Dark Swamp.
It was fraught with danger. Leaving aside food and water, the deeply concealed bogs and all manner of venomous creatures within were enough to make one tremble at the mere mention of them.
After White Bone Venerable and his village companions struggled to survive inside for seven days, he finally accidentally fell into a bog.
Watching his body sink little by little into the swamp, his companions believed he was doomed beyond doubt.
Yet seven days later, a skeleton crawled out of the bog—the skeleton was White Bone Venerable himself.
It turned out that this Dark Swamp had not formed naturally. After a powerful expert passed away here, his corpse had corrupted this stretch of land.
Before his death, that expert had also placed his inheritance within it.
White Bone Venerable had obtained that inheritance. From then on, people gradually forgot his former name and remembered only the name White Bone Venerable.
After acquiring the inheritance, White Bone Venerable was like a fish in water within the Dark Swamp.
He began cultivating step by step here while searching for White Jade Gang Stone to build himself a dwelling.
Thus, White Bone Venerable's cultivation rose at a breathtaking pace, while the dwelling he built was made from White