The Five Poisons Sect has been extinct for over a thousand years. This place lies between the Miao frontier and the Martial Arts Alliance, a distance of perhaps four thousand miles as the crow flies. For the average person, it is a place they could never hope to set foot in throughout their entire lives.
Guided by his memories concerning the Five Poisons Sect, Shen Han arrived outside a small town. This town was nestled at the foot of an anonymous mountain range; the air was thick with moisture, and the settlement appeared to sit right atop a swamp. Many bamboo poles supported the houses, lifting them half a <i>zhang</i> above the damp ground. While the regions of the Martial Arts Alliance and Cangjian Villa were still covered in deep snow, it felt like the turn of spring and summer here.
"Could this be the place?"
Chapter 22