A vast expanse of yellow desert stretches across the boundless land, with large patches of sand seas scattered amid this vast desert wilderness. After countless years, each one becomes a fearsome death zone.

At the edge of one such Death Sand Sea, a tall figure appears out of thin air, landing on a scalding, hot gravel surface.

Zhao Sheng dusts off the sand from his robes and looks around.

In his view, the gravel in the boundless sand sea appears pale yellow, crystal clear, and refracts the blazing sunlight, presenting a glaring sight.

Meanwhile, waves of heat rush up against him, making his mouth dry. The sand sea feels like a giant furnace.

And some tens of miles away from the sand sea's edge, the ground turns into a desolate desert. On the exposed sandy ground grow scattered clusters of gray-white mushrooms, each stem as thick as a thigh and more than a yard tall. The white caps are dotted with specks of gray, and their edges show a faint purple, giving an eerie appearance.

This mushroom patch spans a considerable area. Although scattered, it extends continuously to the horizon. These mushrooms inject a touch of vibrant life into the desolate desert.

"Illusion Cloud Mushroom? So this is the Endless Desert of the Sky Sinking Continent," Zhao Sheng murmurs to himself, looking at the distant gray-white mushroom clusters on the desert, his expression pensive.

When he was very young, he heard from his family elders about the Illusion Cloud Mushroom growing in the depths of the Endless Desert. Though highly poisonous, it can be consumed in small amounts.

Moreover, the poison extracted from this mushroom can cause hallucinations and, to some extent, stimulate the body's potential. But its toxicity is limited, only effective against Martial Artists below the Innate Realm.

Only an Illusion Cloud Mushroom King that has survived for more than a thousand years can have some effect on Divine Communication Martial Artists.

Upon seeing the Illusion Cloud Mushroom, Zhao Sheng quickly grasped a rough understanding of his surroundings.

The Endless Desert occupies the central region of the Sky Sinking Continent, covering over eighty percent of the continent's area: forty percent of it is Death Sand Sea, fifty percent desolate desert, and the remaining ten percent are tens of thousands of life-giving oases.

The largest oasis is named Seven Ring Continent, with a total area of over a million miles. It is the main gathering area of the Zhao Family in the Black Sand Realm, with the family's ancestral land located in the Inner Second Ring Oasis, home to nearly three million members of the family.

Gazing at the desolate scenery around him, Zhao Sheng instinctively unleashed his Divine Thought, encompassing an area nearly a thousand miles wide, taking in the surrounding landscapes deeply into his mind.

This place is almost a forbidden zone for life, with no overly powerful demon beasts present in the surrounding thousand miles. The most formidable, a Purple Silk Scorpion King, is only around the fourth rank, easily annihilated with a thought.

Of course, Zhao Sheng would not engage in such idle pursuits.

He was about to leave with his tunneling light when his face shifted subtly, suddenly turning to look deeper into the desert.

"Hmm, that boy... is strange!" After murmuring to himself, Zhao Sheng's figure abruptly vanished into thin air.

The next second, he appears under a desert mound more than five hundred miles away, surrounded by a large patch of Illusion Cloud Mushrooms, resembling a dense Mushroom Jungle.

What's even more astonishing is that this Mushroom Forest bears traces of artificial cultivation, as sand lizards, purple scorpions, stone snakes, and other desert creatures occasionally appear deep within the mushroom grove.

This place has formed a small habitat for creatures, clearly due to human intervention.

"Come out! I bear no malice!"

Zhao Sheng's eyes flickered with a hint of admiration as he turned to look at the top of the desert mound, where a heavily weathered Giant Stone stands. The front of the stone is mostly buried in sand, forming a small sand dune, yet behind it, a flat area several yards wide has been cleared, and all the sizable stones have been dumped beneath the mound.

After Zhao Sheng spoke, the vicinity of the Giant Stone remained silent, only a hot, dry wind sweeping through, sending sand and dust flying, obscuring the view.

After a long while, there was a rustling sound behind the Giant Stone, and a jet-black head peeked out from behind it, stealthily observing.

Upon seeing Zhao Sheng with a knowing smile, the head swiftly ducked back behind the stone.

Since it had already shown itself, Zhao Sheng would not allow this person to escape from his sight.

It's worth noting that the seemingly ordinary desert mound had long been hollowed out into a complex maze, with over seventy tunnels crisscrossing beneath it, the farthest exit lying thirty miles away.

As Zhao Sheng's mind stirred, a slender, long-armed, completely black youth, hands dangling past his knees, rose from behind the Giant Stone.

This person's limbs and body were wrapped in palm-wide stone snake skins, and starry, pustule-like "toxic blisters" dotted the visible skin on his face, neck, and other exposed areas, some swollen, others burst, oozing milky white sap.

However, the reason Zhao Sheng specifically sought him out was not to see an ordinary mortal.

Though appearing small and thin, this bald youth's flesh seemed as though painstakingly refined, possessing not only innate divine power but also a life force hundreds of times greater than a mortal's, even much stronger than that of an Innate Martial Master specializing in Body Refinement.

Most crucially, despite having never undergone cultivation, a chaotic stream of Spiritual Power surges throughout his limbs and bones, as well as within his Dantian Core Energy Sea, possessing both fire and poison attributes.

Although these two attributes frequently clash, they largely merge together in a peculiar manner.

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