Ye Wu arrived in the Fourth Scourge without issue, entering ahead of The Abandoned and Supreme.

As the three experts made their way across the land, all the Fourth Scourge’s powerful experts fled.

Lu Yin made a point to check a certain area, and he noted that Wei Shu had also fled. The only things that remained in the Scourge were the distant Aeternus Kingdoms.

They were in no hurry to deal with those places. Even if the Aeternus Kingdoms were dealt with at the moment, they would always reappear as long as Aeternus remained. Lu Yin only intended to destroy the kingdoms after completely eradicating Aeternus, but that would be its own monumental task.

Many people had been born in Aeternus Kingdoms, and they naturally considered themselves a part of Aeternus. Only by scattering those people and re-educating them could there be any hope of rehabilitating them back into human civilization.

It was a task no less challenging than defeating Aeternus.

Step by step, Lu Yin made his way towards the black Mother Tree. He eventually arrived at the black mountains that were Blackless God’s personal territory, only to be disappointed by the results. Once again, there was no access to the black Mother Tree’s roots.

This was not because the Aeternals had sealed off all paths to the tree’s roots. Rather, the tree had simply grown in a way that did not allow anyone to reach beneath it.

Lu Yin had considered simply attacking...