A vast Black Dense Forest. A deafening explosion rang out as a huge crimson mushroom cloud soared into the sky, faintly mingled with the sounds of ghosts weeping and wolves howling.
Deep within the forest, a medium-built Grey-Robed Elder stood before an enormous desiccated corpse. The ground was littered with massive craters billowing black smoke.
A blood-red Ghost Shadow with a green face and protruding fangs hovered nearby, emanating an icy, sinister aura.
"An eighth order mid-stage Crimson Flame Leopard was nothing special. I hope the Lin Family stored precious resources in the Minor World."
The Grey-Robed Elder muttered to himself.
Sun Wang, Mid-Mahayana Stage, from the Ten Thousand Ghost Sect.
He put away the desiccated corpse and walked ahead. The blood-red Ghost Shadow followed, and man and ghost vanished into the dense forest.
An undulating Emerald Green Mountain Range stretched into the distance, its mountains lofty and forests dense.
A heaven-shaking boom erupted, and an enormous golden mushroom cloud shot into the sky. The ground trembled violently.
A golden light lit up the sky thousands of kilometers away, transforming into a Golden Giant Tiger with a pair of red fleshy wings on its back. Its body was covered in flame-like patterns, and blood streamed over its surface.
"Trying to run? It won't be that easy."
A cold male voice came from the horizon.
As soon as the words fell, a white sound wave swept over. Wherever it passed, the ground froze rapidly, while great quantities of white ice shards appeared in the air, as though this entire stretch of heaven and earth were about to be frozen solid.
The Golden Giant Tiger threw back its head and roared. A giant tiger phantom appeared in the nearby sky, opened its mouth, and spewed out a Red Sound Wave that