Less than half a day before Jiang Dali personally pursued Hayato Tenin, the atmosphere deep within the vast, towering mountains of Han State was oppressive.
Endless, dense black clouds, like dark mist pouring from a bottomless abyss, wove an ominous and terrifying net above the sprawling mountain range, as though they might crush down at any moment and flatten the unbroken peaks.
Deep, rumbling roars echoed from the heart of the mountains like rolling muffled thunder, creating terrifying reverberations between the peaks that shook the forests. Countless birds and beasts fled beyond the mountains, racing toward distant human settlements.
The power of Heaven and Earth raged in the depths of the range, and the currents of energy between Heaven and Earth were in chaos.
If a supreme expert at the True Return Realm 9th Level had been present, he would surely have sensed that the energy currents blanketing this region had completely descended into disorder, tangled like a ball of thread woven at random.
The source of this chaotic energy was the three terrifying auras confronting one another at the very heart of this region.
Of these three terrifying auras, one radiated holy brilliance amid evil, as though righteousness and evil had merged into one, emanating an immensely powerful dragon's might.
If Qin Shi Huang's aura were compared to a bright moon, then this aura that united righteousness and evil was like a dazzling star. Though its radiance was only a tenth of the moon's, it was still incredibly formidable.
The other two auras confronting this unified righteous-evil aura at this moment were considerably weaker.
Even the stronger of the two possessed only around one-fifth the strength of that powerful aura.
The other had reached merely one-tenth of its level.
Although the gap in life force between them appeared great,