Supreme Hall's meeting room held not only True Martial Supreme, but also a Supreme named Blazing Fire.
"Ye Chen, you're here!"
"Supreme Ye."
Seeing Ye Chen arrive, True Martial Supreme and Blazing Fire Supreme rose to their feet.
"True Martial, Blazing Fire."
Among Supremes, they generally addressed one another by their titles. Ye Chen did not yet have a title, so he could be called Supreme Ye or addressed directly by name.
After taking a seat, Ye Chen came straight to the point. "True Martial, you called me here. What is it? Has the Devil Race made some move?"
True Martial Supreme smiled. "No. Even if the Devil Race intends to make a move, it will not be this soon. I called you and Blazing Fire here this time to assign you a mission: patrol Blackwind Canyon."
"Blackwind Canyon?"
This was Ye Chen's first time hearing the name.
Blazing Fire Supreme was not surprised in the least. He explained to Ye Chen, "Blackwind Canyon is an important site of the Human Race. Patrol duty rotates once every five hundred years. This time, it is our turn."
Only after True Martial Supreme and Blazing Fire Supreme explained did Ye Chen learn that the Human Race had an extremely secret forbidden land—Blackwind Canyon. Countless seals had been laid within Blackwind Canyon, sealing away evil fiends and enemies that could not be killed, or were difficult to kill, since ancient times. It was equivalent to an extremely high-level Supreme prison. As the years passed, the fiendish aura in Blackwind Canyon grew increasingly potent, until even the currents blowing from its fissures were black. That was how Blackwind Canyon got its name.
Ye Chen and Blazing Fire Supreme's mission was to patrol Blackwind Canyon. Should they encounter anything strange or troublesome, they were to