Run and Kill
A bolt of lightning skimmed across the earth, shooting into the distance.
At one moment—
The lightning scattered, and Gu Qingshan appeared.
Carried by his momentum, he jogged a few steps forward before stopping on a cliff and looking ahead.
"What a desolate place..."
The world lay bleak and barren.
Snowflakes drifted down, carried by the wind.
Below the cliff stretched an endless glacier, reaching all the way to distant mountains blanketed in snow and ice.
Gu Qingshan studied the scene for a while, his expression gradually turning grave.
The glacier wasn't empty. On the contrary, it was dotted with countless ruined palaces.
Though battered and buried beneath the snow, the palaces still exuded an indescribable, savage menace.
—What exactly was the so-called Five Elements War?
Gu Qingshan pondered as he tightened his pack, secured his saber and bow, and began climbing down along the cliff's uneven edges.
Though he had lost his strength, he still practiced the Martial Scripture Lin had taught him regularly. A cliff like this posed no problem.
About an hour later, his feet touched the snow.
The snowfall had grown heavier.
Gu Qingshan squinted into the distance. Beyond ten paces, the wind and snow blotted out everything, making it impossible to see.
Strange noises kept coming from the ruined palace complex in the distance.
Gu Qingshan had never heard sounds like them before.
—They seemed to come from all kinds of completely unknown beings.
Suddenly, as if sensing something, he whipped around.
"Ah..."
Apart from that sigh, its meaning impossible to discern, Gu Qingshan couldn't say anything else.
It was simply too shocking—
The cliff wasn't a cliff at all, but a colossal stone sculpture.
Because he was so close, Gu Qingshan couldn't make out what the entire sculpture depicted.
He kept