At the base of the mountain, a vast tract of the forest wilderness had been cleared out, creating an enormous open area. Although it was buried and concealed, a thick scent of blood still lingered in the air.

This was the venue that the Southshine Nation had chosen to host the great competition. It had only been created several days ago. In a manner consistent with the Southshine Nation’s attitude, the competition stage had been built over the bones of countless monster beasts. In other words, buried beneath this land were the corpses of tens of thousands of monster beasts.

It was no wonder that the air was filled with a cold yin chill, and a ferocious killing intent percolated in the wind; it was caused by these buried monster beast corpses. It was said that the reason the Southshine Nation first did this was to show monster beasts that they would not forgive any trespass. Secondly, it was to increase the difficulty of the alchemy competition. If they couldn’t even withstand this slaughter energy, then they couldn’t be considered a true alchemist.

But no matter what their goal was, this in itself was a tremendous display of ability. Only the strength of an entire nation could gather such a strong force to accomplish this in a short period of time.

Right now, Qin Yu was several miles away....