A landscape of utter devastation.
The soil was scorched black, covered by a layer of ash from grass and trees.
The once-fertile farmland was crisscrossed with gullies. Thick smoke concealed the city's ruins, the river had changed course and exposed its muddy bed, and a cargo sailing ship lay slanted in the muck, its burning sails falling away...
It was as if the ground had been plowed over.
Beneath the dim, leaden sky, molten grit rolled hot and viscous. The high heat warped the air and twisted the view as an ugly Demonic Beast over ten feet tall struggled to crawl forward.
Its entire body seemed to have been scorched by blazing flames, reddened flesh split beneath blackened hard scabs, all of it smeared with filthy blood.
Half an arm was missing. It clawed at the dirt with one hand and hauled itself forward, coughing blood with every step of its crawl, covered in wounds.
Suddenly, it heard a shrill whistle.
Gritting its teeth, it rolled over.
A streak of icy light came screaming down from the sky!
Pfft!
A chilling sharp blade pierced its chest, pinning it firmly to the ground.
"Argh... kill me...!"
Blood and foam sprayed from its mouth with every roar.
A rapid tearing sound came from the sky as a slender figure plunged straight down in a savage descent. The ground boomed and shuddered, dirt splashing half a foot high. Before the demon stood a slim figure clad in majestic immortal armor, mysterious forked dragon horns rising from her head.
Bai Yujun walked coldly up to the demon and looked down at it without expression, neither sorrowful nor pleased.
The demon still struggled.
"Demon Dragon... cough, cough...!"
Yet Bai Yujun's eyes were unfocused, as though she were recalling something.
"There was once an evil god