In the northern reaches of the Shattered Realm, the mountains were so rugged and perilous that even birds struggled to cross them.

Here, towering peaks and deep gorges often stretched for thousands of zhang, and it wasn’t uncommon for the elevation difference between a mountain peak and a valley floor to exceed ten thousand zhang. Both the humans and the Shamans occupied only the relatively flat southern regions of the mountains. Even the Shamans could not survive in these treacherous mountain ranges, which stretched for tens of thousands of zhang.

Wei Yuan and his two companions flew into the mountains, soaring higher and higher until, in the blink of an eye, they had reached a height of over three thousand zhang above the ground. Upon reaching this altitude, their surroundings suddenly became still and windless.

Wei Yuan had learned in the Heaven and Earth Theory that this calm wind zone was actually the last peaceful zone in the sky. If they flew any higher they would enter the eerie and unpredictable origin magnetic layer,...