The next dawn, scorching flames illuminated half of the Fallen God Mountain.
The treants of the Demonic Wood Forest, after a series of wails, could not escape the fate of being burned to ashes.
Ye Lingyuan, carrying Zi Linling who lay in "Chong'er," along with Shen Liuxing, Rong Guang, Xuanyuan Xun, and Shangguan Yulin, stepped through the now-burnt-out Demonic Wood Forest and onto the right path once more.
After a trek, they found themselves at the foot of the last peak in the Fallen God Mountain Range.
"Once we cross this mountain, we can leave the Fallen God Mountain Range!"
Looking at the ominous peak before them, Shen Liuxing said with a grave expression.
The others nodded in silence, their eyes filled with apprehension.
Although this was the last peak, it was actually the most dangerous place in the Fallen God Mountain Range.
This place was called Fallen God Peak. It was once an ancient battlefield where countless battle souls were buried.
Therefore, it had become a land of death where even birds could not fly over, and rivers could not meet.
Later, Mother Venerable Feng Liqi gave birth to a daughter, named Witch Girl.
Witch Girl had no spiritual roots from birth, but she found her own path and cultivated her soul power to the legendary transcending realm.
When she passed through this area, she pitied the battle souls whose bones lay exposed in the wilderness. With her great divine power, she moved a divine mountain to bury these bones and personally conferred this place as Fallen God Peak.
Witch Girl originally intended to guide these battle souls into the cycle of reincarnation.
However, this place had its own magnetic field and could not connect with the cycle of reincarnation. Unless the Ancestral God returned, even her Mother Venerable Feng Liqi was helpless.
Witch Girl had no choice but to leave a soul imprint here to pacify the battle souls and lull them into slumber.
But this soul imprint was very special; it could not encounter vital energy or blood qi, otherwise, it would have the opposite effect. Not only would it awaken the battle souls, but it would also ignite their malevolence and ferocity.
Therefore, Witch Girl used her own witch's blood as a guide, drew a boundary, and opened a space in the heart of Fallen God Peak, sealing all the battle souls within.
Then, she used the Witch's Mountain-Moving and Sea-Dredging Technique to move dozens of mountain peaks, surrounding Fallen God Peak in the deepest part, forming the Fallen God Mountain Range.
Afterward, Witch Girl cautiously announced to the world that the Fallen God Mountain Range was designated as a forbidden area, and no one was allowed to enter.
At first, people heeded Witch Girl's decree diligently.
However, humans are the most curious and the most forgetful species.
As time passed, people gradually forgot Witch Girl's warning. Sultan Novels.
Some powerful rogue cultivators, lacking cultivation resources, set their sights on the Fallen God Mountain Range.
In their eyes, the Fallen God Mountain Range was rarely visited, and the accumulated resources must be innumerable.
In fact, it was as they predicted.
For a long time, due to Witch Girl's decree, no one dared to defy public opinion and sneak into the Fallen God Mountain Range.
Therefore, the spiritual herbs within the Fallen God Mountain Range were all at least of mid-grade heavenly rank. For these rogue cultivators who lived on the edge, this was an irresistible attraction.
With the first wave of people secretly infiltrating, came the second, the third...
Initially, they only ventured into the periphery, encountering at most some powerful beasts.
But the resources in the periphery were always limited.
With many people and little meat, some gradually ventured deeper.
However, the Fallen God Mountain Range had been neglected for countless years, so it contained not only powerful beasts but also some demonic creatures that had cultivated for a long time.
Thus, those who continuously pushed into the depths soon encountered powerful demonic beasts and demonic creatures.
Within the vast Fallen God Mountain Range, there were countless territories of demonic creatures like the Demonic Wood Forest.
Consequently, some were caught off guard and killed, some were killed due to insufficient strength, and some were killed for robbery...
In short, people and demonic beasts constantly perished within the Fallen God Mountain Range.
However, this could not curb people's greed.
The blood of all living beings that died in the Fallen God Mountain Range rapidly permeated into the ground, eventually turning them into mummified corpses and then into ashes.
The greedy people, oblivious to this strange phenomenon, continued to fight and kill each other.
Time flew by, and years passed like a shuttle.
Ten thousand years passed in the blink of an eye.
By this time, the cultivation of those entering the Fallen God Mountain Range had become increasingly high. Some families and factions even dispatched large numbers of Great God Realm and even God King Realm experts.
Furthermore, one family even dispatched a God Lord Realm expert for a Saint-grade medicinal herb.
Luck was by chance, but slaughter was inevitable.
Unbeknownst to them, after ten thousand years of continuous accumulation, a dark river of blood had formed beneath the Fallen God Mountain Range.
And the direction this dark river of blood flowed was precisely towards Fallen God Peak.
It turned out that when Witch Girl was building the forbidden area of the Fallen God Mountain Range, she intentionally made the surrounding peaks higher than Fallen God Peak, with the aim of using the terrain to help the soul imprint suppress the space in the heart of Fallen God Peak.
Therefore, the dark river of blood flowed directly to the foot of Fallen God Peak without any diversion.
The soul imprint, continuously tainted by vital energy and blood qi, gradually lost its efficacy and became a废品 (fèipǐn - scrap/discarded item).
Without the soothing effect of the soul imprint, the battle souls sealed within the space quickly awakened.
Attracted by the blood qi and vital energy, they furiously attacked the seal of the space.
Eroded by time, contaminated by blood qi, and now under the furious assault of countless battle souls, the spatial seal was finally broken.
Innumerable battle souls who had lost their consciousness emerged, killing everyone near Fallen God Peak, including that God Lord Realm expert.
Fortunately, due to the constraints of the ancient battlefield, they could not stray too far from Fallen God Peak. Otherwise, if they had broken out of the Fallen God Mountain Range, the entire Tianci Continent would have been annihilated.
With demonic beasts and demonic races outside, and countless battle souls who had lost their minds within, even God Lord Realm experts could meet their end here.
Therefore, from then on, the Fallen God Mountain Range truly became the Fallen God Mountain Range and was once again classified as a forbidden area.
Later, as the East and West of the Tianci Continent began to interact, the Fallen God Mountain Range became a thorn in their path between the two regions.
However, even so, unless absolutely necessary, no one dared to cross the Fallen God Mountain Range and could only make a detour around it.
And this detour would double the travel time.
Ye Lingyuan and the others, with only three months, had no choice but to cross it.
Now, standing at the foot of Fallen God Peak, a single step forward would take them into the range of attack of the battle souls.
Therefore, even though they were all brave and skilled, they had to maintain the utmost vigilance.
Shen Liuxing continued, "This peak is called Fallen God Peak. Legend has it that it was once an ancient battlefield and is the most dangerous place in the Fallen God Mountain Range. Therefore, everyone must be extremely careful!"