At the Beiyan Demonic Wastes border, near Yuan Yue City.
Inside the city walls, the sky was a canvas of distress and gloom. Outside, the land was a scarred and pitted wasteland. A hundred miles away, within a mountain forest, colossal figures of varying shapes lurked, their forms casting a myriad of demonic shadows. Upon the peaks, a few slender, human-like figures sat cross-legged in meditation.
The ground here was stained dark with blood,
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