(Back to a short chapter after so long...)
In the Savage Wasteland's third month, Jade Hook had already fallen to the mortal world.
She Yue, the former mistress of Toad Palace, was far away in Vast Heaven and Earth. This bright moon had become a land without a master.
And on the bright moon called "Haocai," which had once hung at the center, lay the lifeless ancient Immortal Palace Ruins. It seemed a battle of Heaven-Reaching Sorcery had once raged there. Across the vast estate, hundreds of buildings that had once stretched as far as the eye could see appeared to have been flattened in one sweeping stroke, leaving only their foundations.
Even when Qi Tingji and the other sword cultivators began dragging the moon, the ruins showed no sign of change. Only after Bai Ze appeared at Yelu River did an earth-shaking disturbance erupt.
A colossal spider that occupied nearly a third of the moon's territory burst from the ground. It instantly took human form, becoming a hunched old man. He opened his mouth and inhaled, seemingly swallowing all the moonlight into his belly. When he breathed out, a longsword emerged.
It was this ancient Demon Race sword cultivator who had abruptly struck Ning Yao down to the mortal world with a single sword blow while she was clearing the way.
Ning Yao had then returned to the battlefield with sword in hand and struck him back into his lair deep within the moon.
He looked up at that ferocious little woman and activated a Natal Divine Ability to probe her. He could scarcely believe it. A human sword cultivator not yet a hundred years old?
The ancient Great Demon could not help cursing Bai Ze in the old tongue, railing at him for acting so dishonorably.
Unease gnawed