Battle Through the Heavens: Clan Leader, I'm sorry, now I just want to be a good person.

Xiao Fan nodded slightly upon hearing Yun Yun's words, then looked ahead, pondering deeply about the Izumo Empire.

In Xiao Fan's memory, the Izumo Empire appeared only a handful of times, and he obtained very little information about it.

Firstly, within the Izumo Empire, everyone cultivates poison-based fighting techniques, and poison masters are everywhere. In addition, the Izumo Empire doesn't have any resources that outsiders would covet, so outsiders are extremely rare.

Once you engage in combat, they can easily discern whether you are from the Izumo Empire or not.

Even if their identities were exposed, it wouldn't affect Xiao Fan and his group much. However, being in the open or in the dark each has its advantages. Only by hiding in the shadows can they find a way to get the information they want.

Apart from that, Xiao Fan only knew of one force within the Izumo Empire: the Ten Thousand Scorpion Sect and the Poison Sect founded by Little Fairy Doctor. However, he didn't know whether the Poison Sect still existed or had even been established at all.

As dusk fell and a crimson sunset painted the horizon, Xiao Fan and Yun Yun arrived at the border of the Izumo Empire, about to enter the empire.

Before them lay a vast plain, but strangely, there was no living creature on it, only a bizarre, pitch-black weed growing there.

"What's happening here?"

The two landed on the last hilltop. Xiao Fan looked at the strange plain stretching as far as the eye could see, and the outline of a city that was vaguely visible. He looked at Yun Yun with curiosity.

Upon hearing Xiao Fan's words, Yun Yun pondered for a moment before explaining, "This was the work of the Ten Thousand Scorpion Sect of the Chuyun Empire."

"Back then, the Izumo Empire committed countless atrocities within the territory of the Gama Empire. Later, in order to prevent the Gama Empire from making a desperate gamble and fighting to the death, the Izumo Empire's royal family, on the advice of the Ten Thousand Scorpion Sect, sprinkled a large amount of poison on the plains in the direction of the Izumo Empire towards the Gama Empire, killing all the plants there. This area was not originally a plain, but a forest, but it was completely turned into a dead zone under the corrosive effects of the poison."

Yun Yun looked at the plain with a complicated expression and stretched out her hand to draw a boundary for Xiao Fan.

"From here all the way to another border city of the Izumo Empire, a stretch of over a hundred miles was transformed into a lifeless dead zone under the arrangement of the Ten Thousand Scorpion Sect. For the first ten years, this entire area was devoid of life. Even if a Great Battle Master entered it and stayed for more than a certain period of time, he would be left with inescapable poison gas in his body and suffer from it for the rest of his life."

"As for fighters and masters, it's even less likely they'll leave here alive. However, over the next few decades, the Izumo Empire continuously poured poison into this place, which in turn gave rise to this black weed. It gradually absorbed the poisonous gas, and this black weed became highly toxic, and was used as a common poison by the Izumo Empire."

"Sigh~"

Upon hearing Yun Yun's explanation, Xiao Fan looked at the pitch-black plain before him with some surprise. "By turning such a vast expanse of land into a poisonous dead zone, isn't the Izumo Empire afraid of reaping the consequences and affecting their future generations?"

The plains, stretching for hundreds of miles, had been transformed by the Izumo Empire into a toxic dead zone where no one could linger. Xiao Fan simply couldn't understand why the Izumo Empire's royal family would agree to such a suggestion from the Ten Thousand Scorpion Sect.

Although poison masters are prevalent in the Chuyun Empire, the art of poison is dangerous. If something goes wrong, it could create a poisonous field that stretches for hundreds of miles, and it might even spread into the territory of the Chuyun Empire. At that time, countless people would lose their lives. Xiao Fan really couldn't understand why the Chuyun Empire would make such a decision.