Thirty million li east of Mirage Tower lay a vast, boundless sea of sand. Empty, desolate, only rolling yellow sand stretched to the end of the sky.
The blazing sun hung high, its scorching light roasting the earth. The heat twisted the air until it steamed and shimmered, as if one stood inside a great furnace.
Desolation was the only tone here. Across the entire sand dune, aside from a few cactus-shaped spirit grasses rooted firmly in place, there was no trace of any other living thing.
Thud! Thud!
After an unknown amount of time, two figures fell like meteors, bringing long-lost life to this deathly silence.
The newcomers were none other than Wu Shoushan and the Faceless Gu Immortal.
Just moments earlier, Shen Yun had used the Kunpeng Treasure Technique to stir the Space Law and shift the two of them here.
Within ten million li in every direction, not a soul could be seen. As a battlefield for a life-and-death fight, it could not have been more suitable.
"Faceless Gu Immortal, die!"
Wu Shoushan's furious roar boomed like thunder. Without a single wasted word, he only wanted to slay this beast as quickly as possible and wash away his former shame.
"True Self Great Strength Spirit!"
He stepped out, his figure abruptly rising several inches, and his whole body shot forward like a cannonball.
Hiss-crack!
Where he passed, the sand dunes collapsed with a crash, actually melted into magma by the heat born of friction. The momentum was astonishing.
At this moment, the Faceless Gu Immortal had still not steadied his mind. Thoughts spun rapidly through his head—who on earth possessed such divine ability, to move them here out of thin air? It was simply beyond belief.
Yet the next moment, a sharp gale was already blowing straight