In the bitterly cold far north, snow and ice blanketed the earth, while wind and frost raged across the skies.
The boundless, silent snowfield, white as jade, was cold and desolate to the extreme.
On the shore where sea met sky stood a sheer cliff crowned with pines that soared into the clouds, surrounded on three sides by the ocean beneath an endless expanse of sky.
The biting sea wind howled without end year after year, as sharp as blades and swords. It scoured the cliff bare, leaving not a blade of grass or trace of human presence.
Yet on that perilous cliff stood an enormous ice gate, its back to the precipice and its top reaching into the sea of clouds, as if it were a gate joining heaven and earth.
Legend had it that if a mortal could climb the cliff, knock on the Heavenly Gate, and move the heavens, any wish could be granted. Unfortunately, those who dared make the journey rarely returned.
No one in the entire martial world could have imagined that this bitterly cold land concealed a mighty force capable of overturning the entire martial world.
After devouring Di Shitian's primordial spirit, Hao Shuai had easily learned the exact location of the Heavenly Gate.
Now he had brought Song Que, Shi Zhixuan, Xiao Feng, and Old Zhang to the entrance of the Heavenly Gate.
Hao Shuai had waited at the Tianxia Society for two or three whole months before Song Que and the others finally returned.
Speaking of the four of them, ever since Hao Shuai had sent them away from the Tianxia Society, everything they did after descending the mountain had quickly become the hottest news in the martial world.
After descending the mountain, the four had gone their separate ways and begun