In a certain region of the sea to the west of the Ancient Cloud Continent.

This place was near the Thunderstorm Sea, and the sky was filled with dark clouds with bolts of lightning flashing within them.

However, in contrast with the lightning deep within the Thunderstorm Sea, the lightning here was far less formidable. Occasionally, a bolt of lightning or two would come crashing down out of the sky, but for the average cultivator, as long as they proceeded with caution, they were at no threat of severe bodily harm.

The seawater here was extremely murky, almost like mud, and the entire surface of the sea was enshrouded under a dense blanket of gray mist that seemed to have been infinitely vast, and there were strange gusts of wind howling within the mist that produced a sound resembling human sobbing.

This place was known as the Sobbing Mist Sea, and it was a very renowned area to the west of the Ancient Cloud Continent, but not for good reasons.

Beneath this region of the sea was an enormous gray rock crystal mine, and after it had been completely exhausted of its mineral resources, the seawater had taken on this murky appearance, and this blanket of gray mist had arisen.

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