Chapter 535: Xu Qingzhou’s Location

In the ancient era, about a hundred thousand years ago, batches of Cultivators successively discovered the desolate Cang Continent and found that it was rich in resources and abundant in Spiritual Qi.

Consequently, many factions and Cultivators moved to the Cang Continent to settle and develop.

Therefore, during the ancient era, the Cang Continent was at its most resource-rich, nurturing and giving birth to many powerful factions.

As their strength grew and ambitions expanded, war became inevitable.

Having gone through several chaotic wars, both large and small, countless Cultivators fell in the Cang Continent during the ancient era, and some powerful factions were even wiped out as a result.

Consequently, the overall strength of the Cang Continent declined rapidly; originally, among the thousands of continents in the Tian Yuan World, it could rank in the upper-middle tier, but now it doesn't even count as lower-middle, and can be said to be at the bottom tier of the thousands of continents in the Tian Yuan World.

The Cultivators of the Cang Continent, having suddenly awakened to the truth, finally gave up the fighting, and the Cang Continent thus became stable.

No one expected that, after over a hundred thousand years, the Cang Continent would undergo a drastic change.

The Alliance, led by the Nie Family, arrived at the Cang Continent. Watching the Xu Family escape, they were furious and condoned the demonic Cultivators of the Red Moon Sect to slaughter wantonly in the Cang Continent.

With two Emperor Realm Experts leading a group of Saint Realm experts, they were invincible in the Cang Continent, which lacked any Emperor Realm Experts.

For a time, the entire Cang Continent became a massive slaughterhouse.

Blood stained the rivers and lakes red, thick Evil Qi shrouded the sky, and corpses carpeted the ground.

However, those committing the atrocities in the Cang Continent were the notorious demonic Cultivators; they absorbed and refined the blood-soaked rivers and lakes, forged the thick Evil Qi in the sky into demonic weapons, and refined the corpses into Medicinal Pills.

The once prosperous and beautiful Cang Continent was ultimately left with nothing but a devastated landscape.

From the collapsed buildings, it could be seen that a large number of living beings had once lived here.

According to the initial agreement, all living beings below the Saint Realm in the Cang Continent belonged to the Red Moon Sect.

Living beings above the Saint Realm, as well as Heaven And Earth Treasures, Legacy, and Cultivation Techniques, were completely divided up by the other factions.

On that day, the entire Xu Family was in the Small World, and only Xu Hao went to the Immortal Realm via a portal.

He had originally planned to defect to a major faction of the Mingyue Immortal Dynasty, ask for a treasure, and return to save the Xu Family.

Unexpectedly, the process did not go smoothly; a day had passed, and he still had no leads, so he returned to the Cang Continent again.

But at this time, the Cang Continent had changed drastically, and everywhere was being looted and slaughtered.

Xu Hao's eyes were splitting with rage.

"Did we still lose…"

Xu Hao suddenly snapped out of it; with no time to grieve, he immediately returned to the Immortal Realm, fearing discovery by the enemy.

He was not afraid of death, but rather that if he died, no one would avenge the Xu Family.

After waiting in the Immortal Realm for three months, Xu Hao returned to the Cang Continent again.

The once bustling and prosperous Ascension City had become a dilapidated ruin, with weeds growing among the broken walls and ruins; the entire city lacked even a shred of vitality.

With a gloomy expression, Xu Hao disguised himself, concealed his figure and aura, and sped through the sky.

He flew across the Cang Continent for several days and nights, reaching many places; let alone people, there wasn't even a single Yao Beast, and the Cang Continent had become an uninhabited no-man's-land.

Helpless, Xu Hao could only leave the Cang Continent and go to a nearby continent to gather intelligence.

After some inquiries, he finally learned the sequence of events; although his face remained expressionless, he was overjoyed in his heart.

"Thank goodness, thank goodness, the clansmen all escaped safely."

Xu Hao had originally prepared for the worst; after all, two Great Emperors and twenty-four Quasi-Emperors had descended upon Ascension City that day, and there was simply no chance of victory.

Although the Cang Continent was destroyed, and Ascension City and the Great Gan were gone.

But as long as the Xu Family still existed, there was still hope for everything.

"The clansmen must be hiding now, and I won't be able to find them in the short term, so I should focus on cultivating with all my might and improving my own cultivation level."

"As long as I possess sufficient strength, I can reunite with my family and exact revenge!"

Xu Hao had been worried about the safety of his clansmen and immersed in grief.

Now that he was certain they had escaped and were safe, he felt much more at ease and immediately began planning his future cultivation path.

After thinking for a long time, Xu Hao had an idea.

"I can go develop in the Azure Firmament Merchant Guild. With the Immortal Realm as my backing, I can produce many resources and treasures that do not exist in the Tian Yuan World. Once I infiltrate the Azure Firmament Merchant Guild, I will rely on this advantage to climb up step by step, form cliques, and collect various information about the Azure Firmament Merchant Guild."

"When the time is ripe, I will either sow discord to make them fight among themselves, or act as an inside agent to coordinate with my clansmen from the inside and out to destroy the Azure Firmament Merchant Guild and claim it for myself."

Having determined his future plans, Xu Hao began to implement them step by step.

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Black Continent.

This place was separated from the Cang Continent by thirty-eight continents. On that day, after using the teleportation token, Xu Qingzhou sped all the way, without a moment's rest, flying for three days and three nights before arriving here.

The Black Continent was nothing special, nor did it have any backing that could protect the Xu Family, but there was a special place here called the Ten Thousand Poison Valley.

As the name suggests, this was a place of extreme poison.

It is rumored that before the ancient era, an Emperor Realm Dragon was severely injured and eventually passed away in this valley; the toxins in its corpse could be considered one of the most poisonous substances in the Tian Yuan World.

Furthermore, its Law Domain was also a world filled with poison.

After it passed away, a few thousand years later, centering on the location of its Physical Body, the land and air within a radius of several million miles contained massive amounts of extreme poison.

Ordinary Cultivators dared not approach at all; only Saint Realm Cultivators could barely rely on True Yuan to protect their bodies and step into the valley, but they could only operate on the periphery and could not persist for very long.

Only Emperor Realm Experts could rely on their Law Domain to enter the central area, but they could not stay for a long time either.

Because under the long-term influence of the Law Domain of the Emperor Realm Dragon that passed away here, the Laws of this region had changed, and could even erode the Law Domains of other Emperor Realm Experts.

It could even erode Divine Sense, so Divine Sense could not be used in the central area of the valley.

Therefore, this place became a veritable poisonous land, a forbidden zone that no one dared to enter or even approach.

The reason it was called the Ten Thousand Poison Valley was that the environment here attracted a large number of poisonous creatures from various places to come and settle in the surroundings to Cultivate.

The poisonous creatures in the vicinity gathered more and more, forcibly expanding the poison zone, which occupied a radius of several million miles, by another circle.

Now, this area of ten million miles was filled with various poisons, and no one dared to come.

Therefore, the nearest city was over a million miles away.

For other Cultivators, this Ten Thousand Poison Valley was an absolute forbidden zone that must never be approached.

But for Xu Qingzhou, who possessed the Innate Immortal Body and could be immune to all poisons in the world, it was no different from any other place.

Therefore, Xu Qingzhou chose this place as the perfect location to evade pursuit.

Facts proved that his choice was very correct.

The twelve overlord-level factions led by the Nie Family had arranged for many Emperor Realm and Saint Realm experts to search everywhere for his whereabouts, but after several months, they still had not found him.

In fact, they had been to the Black Continent and even the Ten Thousand Poison Valley, but no one dared to enter, nor could they enter the central area of the Ten Thousand Poison Valley, so how could they find Xu Qingzhou, who was in the central area of the Ten Thousand Poison Valley?