Before coming to the coalition, Xu Qing had read about the Three-Spirits Dao-Suppressing Mountain in the sect files.

“For 500,000 kilometers around the Dao-Suppressing Mountain, skeletons litter the landscape, and bones stick up out of the ground like a forest. Flayed skin and melted hair cover everything underfoot, turning it black.

“As far as the eye can see, blood and gore cover the lands, creating a horrendous atmosphere. Bones can be seen piled up everywhere and instead of fruit hanging from trees, you will see severed heads, still alive, and howling in endless pain and torment as blood drips from them to the ground.

“There are mountains of corpses and seas of blood. The stench is horrendous in this hell on earth. Within the territory of the Dao-Suppressing Mountain are 137 nations, made up of both humans and nonhumans that are kept for food. When a nation is devoured, another is put in its place.”

That was the description of the Three-Spirits Dao-Suppressing Mountain found in the files of Seven Blood Eyes.

Those brutal lands bordered the Eight Sect Coalition, and were also near the sea, separated only by the Supreme Arbiter Salvation Mountains.

Xu Qing knew why the sect had picked this spot to occupy. For one thing, it was connected to the coalition as a whole. Though it was near the Dao-Suppressing Mountain, the coalition was...