South Sea, Fire-Pig Sea Region.
Fire Hog Island was five thousand five hundred li long and one thousand three hundred and twenty li wide, one of the largest islands in the Fire-Pig Sea Region. A vast giant city stood on the island, but most of its walls had collapsed. Flames soared into the sky within the city, more than half its buildings had been destroyed, and countless corpses lay scattered across the ground and among the ruins—cultivators, Demon Race, Sea Clan, and Barbarian Race alike.
A group of cultivators was collecting the bodies and extinguishing the flames.
Inside a majestic red palace, ten Nascent Soul Cultivators had gathered. Among them were a tall, upright middle-aged man and a noble-looking young woman in a silver skirt. Both had a sun-and-moon insignia embroidered on their sleeves. The middle-aged man was Du Chang, the Sun Palace Master of the Sun Moon Palace, while the silver-skirted woman was Fang Yue, the Moon Palace Master of the Sun Moon Palace. Both were great Nascent Soul Late Stage cultivators skilled in the Combined Attack Technique, known as the Sun Moon Twin Sages.
It was widely said that, working together, the Sun Moon Twin Sages could contend against a Spirit Transformation cultivator. By now, more than ten Nascent Soul Realm Alien Race cultivators had died at the hands of this couple, most of them Alien Race cultivators at the Nascent Soul Middle Stage.
"Fellow Daoist Du, Madam Fang, today's battle truly opened this old man's eyes. Even Bayana, the High Priestess of the Golden Barbarian Tribe, died by your hands. The Sun Moon Twin Sages truly live up to their reputation. This old man admires you deeply."
A round-faced old man in a silver robe stroked his beard and spoke with a smile.
A white crow was