Chapter 42

Another elder asked.

"From the western region."

Ye Fan spoke up.

"The western region? Could it be the Western Desert? From the Western Desert to the Eastern Wastes, even if I flew with all my might it would still take me over thirty years. Just who possesses such terrifying power, laying out such a grand formation?"

"So saying that, we've arrived at the Eastern Wastes."

Pang Bo seized the moment to ask. "How vast is the Eastern Wastes?"

"The Eastern Wastes is boundless. Even if a mortal lived for several hundred years, they could not traverse it all."

"That vast?"

"In the mortal world, the country that rules the region of the Desolate Ancient Forbidden Ground is the Yan Kingdom—two thousand li from north to south, three thousand li from east to west. And territory of this size is nothing more than a drop in the ocean of the Eastern Wastes. Such countries are beyond counting."

An elder spoke up.

"What? That vast."

Everyone was shocked.

Fang Yu's face also pretended to be shocked, but inwardly he was unconvinced. Two thousand li north to south, three thousand li east to west—one country—was far inferior to the Great Li Dynasty.

And the Great Li Dynasty, across the entire Profound Huang Da World, was merely a small nation. The largest under heaven, the Profound Yellow Empire, might have a single city larger than an entire province of the Great Li Dynasty.

And under the Great Xuan Empire, cities of this kind were too many to count.

Yet the Great Xuan Empire was itself only an empire under the Xiandaoshi Sect's Mentaiyi Sect. Above the Profound Huang Da World there were still the Xiandaoshi Sect, the Seven Branches of the Demon Sect, the Yaodaowu Sect, and countless other dimensional spaces and Parallel Worlds.

Judging purely by the size of the map, the Eastern Wastes of the Shrouding Heaven Realm was still far from enough.

But this was already enough to intimidate Pang Bo, Ye Fan, and his group of classmates.

"Although the Yan Kingdom is only a corner of the Eastern Wastes, a drop in the ocean, it is not unknown either, because one of the seven great life forbidden zones of the Eastern Wastes—the Desolate Ancient Forbidden Ground—is located here."

Everyone was so shocked they could not speak. Having obtained some useful information, Ye Fan spoke up again: "Earlier you also mentioned the Western Desert. So what place is the Western Desert, and how does it compare with the Eastern Wastes?"

"The Western Desert and the Eastern Wastes—if we speak only of territorial size, they are about the same."

"Besides the Eastern Wastes and the Western Desert, there are also the Northern Plains, Nanling, and the Central Province. The Central Province is the largest—utterly mysterious, vast and boundless…"

Several Elders all revealed wistful expressions. Clearly, a place like the Central Province they too had never visited. The Central Province existed only in their hearsay—it was their Master who told them there was such a place as the Central Province.

"A mortal's life is far too insignificant. But now that you have the possibility of cultivating, who is to say you cannot rise in the future, laughing proudly between heaven and earth."

An elder said with a smile.

"We can cultivate too?"

Some of the doddering old men and old women were hesitant and uncertain, as if they had glimpsed hope.

"That's right. Your Bitter Seas have all been activated. If in the future you can revive, cross the Bitter Sea, step onto the Divine Bridge, and find your own Divine, it is not impossible."

"Bitter Sea, Divine Bridge, Divine."

Some of the men and women were chewing over these words, seemingly related to cultivation.

"May I ask what Men Sect you belong to?"

White-haired Zhou Yi asked at this moment.

"Within the Yan Kingdom there are six great Grotto-Heaven Blessed Lands, and we are one of them—called the Spiritual Ruins Grotto-Heaven. Although we are merely one Grotto-Heaven Blessed Land, we belong under a certain famous Holy Land of the Eastern Wastes. Our foundational essentials are absolutely first-rate in this world. Moreover, if in the future you can soar to great heights, we can also recommend you to that Holy Land, to receive even better resources for cultivation."

"That's right. Weiwei is the once-in-a-millennium supreme genius of our Grotto-Heaven Blessed Land. Soon she will enter the Holy Land to cultivate. Although it's hard to part with her, we absolutely will not hold back her cultivation."

As they spoke, several elders all turned their gazes toward the young girl nearby, revealing affectionate expressions.

"This Spiritual Ruins Grotto-Heaven is quite warm-hearted. Not like my Great Eternal Life, where it's always 'You're done for, you're done for, you know that?' 'Kneel down, be my dog.'"

Fang Yu watched this scene and felt it wasn't bad either.

Just at this moment, another person arrived.