Having successfully deployed the Array of Cause and Effect, Qi Yun and God of Wealth Cai Shen wasted no time, speeding westward.
Their destination was the westernmost fringe of the vast Northwest Land.
The scenery grew increasingly desolate along the way. All traces of green vanished, and the presence of life thinned.
All that remained was iron-gray rock, boundless expanses of grayish-yellow desert quicksand, and the astral winds that howled year-round, as if trying to tear apart any Soul Spirit.
Several days later, a starkly different sight came into view.
There was no more land ahead. In its place stood a towering sea cliff, dropping vertically as if cleaved by a giant's axe.
The cliff face soared over ten thousand zhang high. Its entire surface was a deep, dark black, forged by hundreds of millions of years of wind and sea erosion. It was incredibly hard, and not a single blade of grass grew upon it.
