Published: September 9, 2025
Chapter 793: Fallen Demon Land
Dongyu State in Tian Nan is one of the very few countries in the Tian Nan immortal cultivation world not yet under the control of the four major powers.
This is not because the country is too small or lacks resources to attract those powers.
On the contrary, whether in terms of territory size or the abundance of cultivation resources, this country ranks among the top ten in Tian Nan.
The reason no power has been able to dominate Dongyu State so far is entirely due to its geographic location.
Apart from being too far from the Nine Nations Alliance and having no ties with them, it is also tightly bordered by countries belonging to the other three major powers, placing Dongyu State right in the middle.
Moreover, the cultivator sects in Dongyu State are numerous and mixed due to historical reasons. There are sects aligned with both the righteous and demonic paths, as well as many rogue cultivators outside those alignments. Most importantly, no sect native to Dongyu is strong enough to dominate the others and become the decisive force.
This means Dongyu State cannot represent itself to tilt the balance toward any one faction.
As a result, the three major powers are unwilling to give up on this country and have long engaged in open and covert struggles over it, but no clear outcome has emerged.
In the end, they vaguely agreed that none would interfere too heavily in Dongyu’s affairs, letting it remain a neutral country.
Of course, many native sects have already pledged allegiance to either the righteous or demonic paths or the Heavenly Dao Alliance, gaining covert support from the major powers.
This has allowed Dongyu State to maintain a precarious balance for over a hundred years, making many cultivators see it as neutral ground where they can settle, leading to a time of great prosperity.
In the northern part of Dongyu is Changzhou, where there is a basin covering nearly two-thirds of its area. Most of this basin is covered by unusually dense forests.
At its center lies an immense mountain range stretching millions of miles, called the “Myriad Ridge Mountain Range” by locals.
Whether it truly has over ten thousand ridges is unknown; no one has ever verified it. But the mountain range is so vast that various spiritual beasts and rare spirit medicines abound.
However, except for certain specific periods every few decades, even cultivators dare not recklessly enter to gather herbs or hunt spirit beasts.
This is entirely due to the mountain range’s other well-known and terrifying name in the Tian Nan immortal cultivation world: “Fallen Demon Land.”
Hidden somewhere within the range is the secret valley called “Fallen Demon Valley,” infamous as the most dangerous place in Tian Nan.
This secret valley has existed since ancient times. Over countless millennia, many great supernatural ability cultivators have ventured in to seek treasures, yet the valley remains shrouded in a mysterious and bloody veil, deterring all to this day.
Of course, the mere reputation of Fallen Demon Valley is not enough to stop cultivators from attempting to exploit the mountain.
But for some unknown reason, the Myriad Ridge Mountain Range has long been sealed by colorful miasma.
This miasma is not only fiercely poisonous—touching it means instant death—but also so thick and dense, almost like a powerful restrictive formation, that one cannot see one’s own hand.
Once deep inside, it is impossible to discern direction and one quickly becomes lost.
Under such conditions, even if cultivators could survive the toxins, they would find it nearly impossible to harvest spirit medicines or capture spiritual beasts.
They can only envy the treasures in the mountain from the outside or operate in small areas at the miasma’s thin periphery.
However, about every fifty years, the miasma disperses once.
This is also when the spatial rifts in Fallen Demon Valley are at their fewest and most stable.
During this time, treasure hunters from across Tian Nan seize the brief opportunity to enter the mountain and seek treasures.