Chapter 80: The Leaders of the Four Sides

The natural stone forest covered over tens of miles and was situated in between Icestone City, Crimson Flame City, and Water Moon City.

Countless rock formations of different shapes and sizes stood inside the stone forest, and its terrain was fairly complex, making it pretty easy to hide one’s trail. Spirit beasts took to this place like ducks to water, so it was harder than usual to hunt them down.

The spirit beasts that had stepped out of the Arctic Mountain Range were operating around the border of the three cities. The moment they suffer a loss when fighting against the martial practitioners and found the situation unfavorable, they would often choose this forest of stone as the place to escape to.

Over time, this natural stone forest became their most favored sanctuary.

Martial practitioners from Shattered Ice Manor, Nebula Pavilion, Crimson Fire Association, and Water Moon Sect were initially unfamiliar with the stone forest and thus suffered a great number of losses inside, losing quite a few people.

Gradually, they realized that the spirit beasts loved to escape into the stone forest and thus began to treat the matter with seriousness.

All four martial practitioner forces shifted their true attention to the stone forest and explored the terrain seriously. Area after area they invaded to make preparations for the gradual extermination of the spirit...