Beneath the Desert of Death lay a hidden world.
The temperature here was not cooler due to being underground; rather, because the air was stagnant year-round, it induced a deeply uncomfortable sense of suffocation.
When Ye Chenfeng had collected thirty-two Hearts of the Desert, his strength smoothly broke through to the peak of the Venerable Level.
Outside the city gate.
The paralytic toxin from the blood-red vines was slowly vanishing. Although Kong Fei, Bao Yutao, and Bao Yuqiang of the Heavenly Alliance had been ensnared by the vines first, all of them were at the middle stage of the Venerable Level, so their recovery pace quickly matched that of Shen Mingxuan and others.
Lying on the ground, the first thing that the trio, led by Kong Fei, could move were their fingertips, trembling slightly. Then, their arms regained function, and the paralysis on their bodies receded at an astonishingly fast rate.