Fuck! Who cares about the quest now?!
Clenching his fists in frustration as he remembered the clear disregard the unknown woman had towards him, Yang Shen was reminded of the one from the Hao Clan who took him down with a single punch.
Treating him like an ant again and again… I'll definitely make you pay for this!
Vowing in silence, Yang Shen didn't give into his emotions and behave rashly just because he could buy a talisman and escape if he needed to.
Instead, he remained calm and looked towards the map placed on the bedside drawer.
Having purchased this soon after he entered the Tianjin Town, Yang Shen picked it up and looked towards the huge mountain that was drawn on it.
Located close to the town he was inside now, there was one huge mountain known as the Soul Devouring Mountain.
Known by almost everyone living on the Supreme Cloud Continent, the Soul Devouring Mountain was one of the most dangerous places one could venture inside. After all, as one of the Five Forbidden Lands, the Soul Devouring Mountain was a place where if you die, not even your corpse would be left behind.
Due to this, the number of people who dared to venture inside it were very few in number.
At the same time though, those who entered the mountain and survived there for even a few days would come out as completely new persons after their experience inside it.
With High Grade Profound Beasts that even those in the True Qi Realm didn't dare fight randomly present almost everywhere on the huge mountain, it wasn't any wonder why no one went there despite the number of high level herbs and precious materials available on it.
In the beginning, Yang Shen didn't plan on going there before he entered the Nascent Soul Realm, but everything that was happening made it impossible for him to take things slowly.
Only through the pressure of death constantly surrounding him would be able to continue developing properly.
And given that his own training with the spear was limited to the first and most basic style, the thrust, maybe fighting for his life would bring his potential out and help him understand the remaining styles as well.
Also, after everything that happened, Yang Shen understood one thing.
To make up for how he grew strong with the click of a button, constant training to understand his strength and bloody battles were a must for him if he wanted to be able to use his cultivation properly.
Now that he could utilize his cultivation properly and the time for increasing his cultivation was fast approaching, fighting against the Profound Beasts on the Soul Devouring Mountain would ensure that his control over his strength wouldn't deteriorate and go back to how he was before obtaining Bingqing's help.
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The Supreme Cloud Continent was all there was on the planet. With endless water surrounding it on all sides, the Supreme Cloud Continent was the only huge piece of land on which life existed.
Well, excluding the small islands which were populated by primitive people.
Anyway, on the Supreme Cloud Continent, the strength of each force represented the respect they would receive. And the word 'Great' represented the highest level of strength.
That is, the Great Clans, the Great Sects, and the Great Kingdoms represented the highest level of strength in the Supreme Kingdom.
Due to this, the word Great couldn't be used however one wants to just because they feel like it.
If they aren't able to bear with the countless indignant individuals and forces after adding the word Great to the name of their forces, their situation would be similar to that of the arrogant Kingdom who dared to change its status into an Empire and got destroyed overnight.
No one knows how or why, but there was once a Kingdom which was many times stronger than the current three Great Kingdoms combined.
It was so strong, that it could rule the entire Supreme Cloud Continent.
And to do that, the then King decided to proclaim himself Emperor, and the Kingdom as Empire.
Once this decision was made public, in less than a week's time, the entire Kingdom and every single one of its people was found dead and every single building inside it turned into rubble.
Since that day, the word 'Empire' was a taboo on the Supreme Cloud Continent and not even the Great Kingdoms dared to call themselves.
On this Supreme Cloud Continent where there were Four Great Sects, Three Great Kingdoms, and as many as Twenty Great Clans, there were five forbidden places that very few people would dare venture inside.
The Five Forbidden Lands.
The Soul Devouring Mountain, The Poisonous Lava Volcano, The Life Sucking Waterfall, The Heaven Smiting Forest, and the Land of Death.
Among these five places, the Soul Devouring Mountain was the least dangerous yet the most terrifying one.
After all, unlike the other Forbidden Lands, there didn't exist any strange phenomenons which would cause their death.
It simply contained a lot of Profound Beasts on it.
In that case, why was it the most terrifying one?
It was because if one ended up dying on the Soul Devouring Mountain, not even a single one of their bones would be left behind within minutes of their death.
This was why the name the Soul Devouring Mountain was given to it, and the rumour that dying there would mean your soul would never be able to reincarnate spread around the entire continent.
And this very Soul Devouring Mountain was where Yang Shen planned on going to temper himself.
So what if his death meant that his soul wouldn't be able to reincarnate?
Yang Shen wasn't willing to live a mediocre life, or one where he was strong but couldn't use his strength properly.
Therefore, he pushed down all of his fears and walked towards the huge mountain in the distance.