For hundreds and thousands of years, to facilitate the ascent, Haojing City crafted a stone stairway that directly leads to the mountain peak of the Yin Fire Cave on West Mountain.
Ascending along the steps, one sees a vast expanse of snow-white all around, yet this place alone is a barren mountain with withered stones, the soil crisp and sallow, and even the stone steps are gradually filled with cracks.
Zhang Kui walked while observing, finding it peculiar.
He originally thought this place was a volcanic crater or an underground coal seam burning, but under the Cave Abyss Skill investigation, it revealed a stretch of blue light, undulating like turbulent waves.
As he neared the mountaintop, faint voices came from the front, a funeral procession was in progress.
At the back, people in white mourning clothes, crying and sobbing, at the front, a Daoist was burning incense and scattering talismans, his prayer intonation rising and falling:
