Within the Chigang Heavenly Ascension Realm, red sand filled the sky. Wherever this red sand passed, not a blade of grass remained, and the drifting clouds shattered.
Below, a four-eyed red ox wielded a Sand-Rolling Banner, drawing out the earth's malevolent qi and stirring the winds and clouds of heaven and earth. The surrounding mountains flashed with spiritual light, like pieces on a chessboard. Under the four-eyed red ox's control, they slowly shifted, their trajectories carrying a profound mystery. To outsiders, however, the scene looked like the grand, overwhelming power of mountains being moved and seas overturned.
Though the four-eyed red ox appeared to possess boundless might, its glowing red eyes inexplicably revealed a trace of panic. Its body was also covered in wounds of varying sizes.
Then, within the void filled with yellow sand, a three-foot-long light sword slashed over. Wherever its edge passed, the sand filling the sky was sliced apart like tofu. In terror, the four-eyed red ox slammed its hind legs heavily against the ground. The solid earth split open with a massive crack.
But before the four-eyed red ox could flee into the crack in the ground, the flying sword had already descended. In panic, the four-eyed red ox swept the great banner in its hand, forming a shield-shaped barrier before itself.
The light sword that had slashed down from the void landed upon the shield-shaped barrier. With a buzz, the barrier rippled like a lake disturbed from its calm. The three-foot light sword seemed to stall, but a faint and ethereal sword shadow pierced through the shield-shaped barrier and descended. Before the four-eyed red ox could react further, that hazy sword edge had already pierced through its brow and straight into its bones.
The raging yellow sand between heaven and earth abruptly stilled, as