Pioneering the Frontier, Starting with Exile to Qingshi Ridge

The Gray Mist, a strange place that is dangerous yet full of opportunity. No one knows when it first appeared, nor what secrets the Gray Mist conceals. It seems almost alive, slowly expanding without pause. Huge, grotesque gray beasts evolve within it, while swarms of gray insects serve as vanguard, spreading ever outward. By studying ancient artifacts brought back from the Gray Mist, such as stone tablets and murals, people finally managed to embark on nine different paths to transcendence. Mutated gray insects, abandoned ruins, beast-blood potions, alchemical implants, primordial stone tablets, broken god statues, Gray Mist cults: the Gray Mist holds far too many secrets unknown to the world. In the royal city, the nine dukes jointly issued a decree of colonization: The wilderness is boundless, but rank has its limits. The royal city cares not where you come from, only how far you go. Colonize a hundred li, and you may become a baron; a thousand li, and you may become a viscount; ten thousand li, and you may become an earl; a hundred thousand li, and you may become a marquis; a million li, and you may become a duke.