If the southwestern lands of the Divine Land were a sheet of hemp paper, and nature's divine craftsman pressed one palm against the Snow Region Plateau and the other into the Ba-Shu Basin, pushing both toward the middle, he would squeeze out layer upon layer of north-south folds.
Those folds were Western Kham.
The raised folds formed mountains, the hollows became valleys, and rivers roared and surged through the gaps.
Earth veins cut across the land, jagged crags vied for height, water veins ran lengthwise, and five rivers flowed side by side.
The terrain here was complex, and its cultivation lineages were even more chaotic, surpassing even the Mount Wuling Area.
West of Western Kham lay the Snow Region Plateau, with the Nu River marking their boundary.
The Snow Region Plateau formed a land of its own, called Tubo. This was the last surviving foothold of Ancient Western Buddhism. Back when the Chan Sect drove the ancient Buddhists beyond Western Kham, they had decided there was really no need to drive them any farther.
The remnants of Ancient Western Buddhism took root in the then-uncivilized Tubo and, like the surviving villains on Heavenly Scabbard Mountain, lost contact with the Western Pure Land Buddhist Kingdom.
As time passed, although they did not degenerate completely into a demonic sect as those on Heavenly Scabbard Mountain had, they still became an exceedingly sinister, peculiar faith known as the Maha Sect.
Nor were any other lineages willing to preach on the Snow Region Plateau, leaving the Maha Sect utterly dominant. They even graced it with the name "Buddhist Kingdom of the Snow Region."
In truth, as time passed, traces of Buddhist teachings grew ever harder to find in the Maha Sect; instead, an eerie, vicious evil seeped from every corner.
The Heart-Piercing Monk, whom