Winter snow swirled.
Accompanied by the howling icy wind, fluttering snowflakes sketched vast curtains beneath the dim night sky.
The entire world seemed to have dissolved into the dense darkness and boundless veil of snow, muddled and indistinct.
The mysterious sparrow hovered in midair, gazing doubtfully at the space ahead.
Space rippled like the surface of water. Though beautiful, it contained devastating energy.
All the nearby snowflakes vanished strangely, and a bizarre vacuum abruptly appeared in midair.
The fluctuations grew increasingly violent. Space seemed unable to bear the strain, and finally shattered with a thunderous crash.
A black shadow fell from the fractured space, plunging straight toward the ground before barely managing to halt several dozen meters above it.
"Damn it, how did I run into Spatial Turbulence... The strength of a peak Venerable really is terrifying..."
The black shadow seemed mentally unstable. He muttered to himself as he swayed and slowly raised himself higher.
Black liquid dripped from his body. It seemed to be his blood, erupting in bursts of hissing the moment it touched the ground, as though it possessed extremely powerful corrosive properties.
The black robe on the shadow's body was damaged in many places, faintly revealing the body concealed beneath it.
Strange scaly keratin, grotesquely proliferating limbs, and perhaps even semi-fluid gelatinous matter slowly flowing...
It was a scene that seemed fit only for nightmares.
The mysterious sparrow instinctively sensed danger the moment the black shadow appeared.
Without the slightest hesitation, it decisively fled in the direction it had come from.
Its speed exploded in an instant, leaving striking traces in space everywhere it passed.
"What kind of damned place is this now? I wonder how those two are doing. Heh heh, they probably aren't much better off than I am..."
"How miserable. If I still