Everything outside the ghost galleon was pitch black. There was no light, only unending cold and grim darkness.4

By means of his shadow, Xu Qing kept an eye on the netherworld void that existed outside of the galleon. It made him think about the terrifying entities that countless cultivators feared when entering Foundation Establishment. During that moment, when a cultivator shone as brightly as a life lamp, it would attract entities from another world. The Mute had failed during that part of his breakthrough, and had been partially possessed. If it hadn’t been for Xu Qing, the Mute would already have ceased to exist.5

From what Xu Qing could sense, the netherworld void outside the ghost galleon was that world.1

It wasn’t easy for him to track the passage of time. It was as if each moment lasted for a very long time. Then, out of nowhere, light appeared in the darkness. It was scorching hot, and stretched for 30,000 meters from one end to another, ripping apart the darkness. There in the netherworld was a huge, blindingly bright desert.0

The ghost galleon shot into that desert and... disappeared.0

Everyone aboard the ship suddenly felt their stomachs lurch as if they were falling.0

“You can open your eyes,” Arch-Immortal Plumdark said. The coalition disciples did so. Astonishingly, they were now in a scorching desert.2

Heatwaves shimmered everywhere, and the sky itself rippled and distorted. The desert was an endless sea of fire, with stupefying heat radiating down from a red sun in the sky....11