The sun hung overhead like a colossal fireball, emitting suffocating heat and a blinding glare, yet it couldn't disperse the gloom that blanketed the entire sky.
Jagged black mountains rolled across the distant horizon, with what appeared to be large flocks of birds circling above them.
Fierce winds howled past, sending millstone-sized rocks rumbling and rolling, while clouds of sand and dust filled the air.
Pei Ze stood on a rocky outcropping, gazing out at the wasteland before him.
This was Pazunia, the first layer of the Abyss.
In the Material Plane, it was generally known as the Wanyuan Plain.
After much deliberation, Pei Ze had ultimately chosen the Abyss as his first stop.
There wasn't much of a difference between choosing the Abyss or Hell, but Pei Ze preferred dealing with demons over cunning and insidious devils.
The latter, while chaotic and cruel, at least didn't require constant vigilance to avoid being ensnared in some scheme.
