Frozen wasteland.
The wind was gentle, the sky a clear blue—a beautiful day.
From the Ancient Remnants' primitive tribe, Sky Pillar Mountain and its snow peaks were plainly visible. Wind swept across the slopes, occasionally curling up glittering ice chips. The primitives remembered that it had been a long time since they had basked in sunlight, and the whole tribe was steeped in a languid air.
The tribe's elderly female leader hobbled out of the cave on her cane and silently watched the heavenly pillar.
A boy dressed in animal hides blankly rose to his feet.
He pointed toward the snowy mountains on the ice field.
"Look! An avalanche...!"
The primitive men and women cried out in alarm, watching the snow on the slope flow like water. They could gradually feel faint tremors and a chill wind blowing toward them. Why would there be an avalanche out of nowhere?
"What is that?"
A figure was running ahead of the flowing avalanche, racing down the steep slope, hanging right at the very front.
Back at the front of the snow flow on the slope, Bai Yujun shrieked wildly as she flung her legs and sprinted, delighted beyond measure. She treated the dangerous avalanche as an exciting game. The rumbling roar was deafening, her long hair whipped wildly as she ran with surging momentum. She remembered that she had merely been unable to resist letting out one howl, and then it had collapsed.
Flying? Wouldn't that be boring? Wasn't it more fun to be chased by an avalanche?
A protruding boulder blocked the way ahead and might hinder the snow flow.
She lowered her head, charging like a Savage Beast...
Boom!
The boulder shattered, fragments flying everywhere.
At the end of the distant green mountain range, Ba Snake opened his eyes, his