With this hope in mind, he began his stealthy advance.
He carefully avoided everyone along the way.
After more than a month, Lü Zhong successfully reached Ye Ling Immortal City.
But what appeared before him was not the bustling Immortal City filled with cultivators he had expected.
The Spirit Fields were ruined, the city walls collapsed.
Piles of bones were stacked as high as mountains.
Judging from the traces left at the scene, a great battle must have occurred in Ye Ling Immortal City shortly after the cataclysm in the Western Realm. The Immortal City was completely destroyed in the conflict, and all the mortals and cultivators within had met with disaster.
Lü Zhong searched the area but found no one alive.
He only found a few Demon Cultivators, all of whom looked like something between human and ghost. They moved among the mountain-like piles of bones, collecting the Corpse Qi that emanated from them, as well as the newly-formed wandering souls.
