Above Fuming County, the cold wind wailed bleakly as heavy snow swirled through the air.
A handsome yet demonic-looking man with gray-white hair stood silently in the void, a gloomy shade lurking in his wolf-like eyes.
He held a treasure pearl wreathed in five streams of qi in his palm. Within it, a green flood dragon leaped and soared, wondrous beyond compare.
It was none other than the Azure Cloud Demon Lord!
With the advantage of foreknowledge, along with his mastery of numerous wondrous methods that would only emerge in the great immortal era of the future, having obtained the Mountains and Rivers Pearl, he was now on the verge of touching the threshold of Foundation Establishment.
Thus, he had come to Fuming County, intending to take revenge on the Thousand Derivations Dao Lord before he had yet grown strong, but...
"Thunder Department deities..."
As he gazed at those solemn, divine-looking golden-armored generals, the Azure Cloud Demon Lord's mood had soured to the extreme.
The Mountains and Rivers Pearl he possessed could gather fortune to enhance himself and battle formations, and it also greatly restrained deities, able to cut off, to a certain extent, the enhancement that divine offices granted them.
That was also why he had been able to defeat the imperial court's army and scatter the divine body of the Azure Cloud Mountain Range's mountain god.
The Mountains and Rivers Pearl bearing the aspect of a green flood dragon could already unleash combat power at the Golden Core level. No matter how heaven-defying a genius the Thousand Derivations Dao Lord was, it was absolutely impossible for him to have reached the Golden Core level at this time!
Yet after searching all around, he found that the man was not even in Fuming County...
And for some inexplicable reason,