The northern expanse of the Ten-Thousand Peaks Calamity Forest was a sprawling, primordial labyrinth of towering ancient timber and jagged, mist-shrouded ravines. The trees here grew to impossible heights, their trunks as thick as imperial watchtowers, casting a perpetual, suffocating canopy of deep emerald shadows over the forest floor. It was a domain completely untouched by mortal civilization, a savage wilderness where only the most formidable predators reigned supreme.
Through this dense, untamed labyrinth, a small, highly elite procession carved its path.
