Several thousand years ago.
On a rainy night.
Outside Shuiyue Mountain, which had remained peaceful for several thousand years, two people slowly flew in.
A man and a woman.
The man was strikingly handsome, but his expression was vicious and venomous. One glance at him was enough to make people want to keep far away.
The woman was beautiful, yet the faint aura emanating from her inspired terror. Her lovely eyes brimmed with surging killing intent.
Such a pair was enough to send chills through the heart of anyone who saw them.
The couple's arrival immediately shook all of Shuiyue Mountain.
Shuiyue Mountain's Mountain Protection Formation activated at once.
Yet the very next moment after it activated, the sinister-looking man casually waved his hand and opened it.
Or rather, it had not been broken open.
This sinister man had originally been a member of Shuiyue Mountain, and one of its core figures at that.
Because he was the biological son of Shuiyue Mountain's Mountain Lord.
Over the years, this son had returned from countless journeys outside, and naturally carried many things bestowed upon him by the Mountain Lord.
The method for entering the Mountain Protection Formation at will had not been personally bestowed by the Mountain Lord, but it was still deeply connected to him.
Then, amid the bewildered expressions of everyone present, the two headed toward the main peak.
Shuiyue Mountain's Mountain Lord had likewise been alarmed by this scene, yet he merely waited in the main hall for his disappointing son to arrive.
He wanted to hear what explanation this son of his would give him.
However.
A scene no one could have anticipated unfolded.
The instant the two entered the hall, the woman brazenly attacked.
Her cultivation was indeed no match for the Mountain Lord's.
But she