Crack!
Crack, crack!
Cloud banks piled thickly overhead as thunder rumbled and lightning flashed.
Beneath the dim sky, where rain pattered down, the boundless wilderness stretched like a giant carpet toward the horizon, all the way to the edge of the world.
The bitter wind and driving rain that made heaven and earth grow ever colder blew in from that increasingly dark horizon.
They sent millions upon millions of withered yellow grasses trembling, rising and falling like endless ocean waves.
Here and there, a few gnarled trees stood in isolation. Buffeted by wind and rain, they swayed to and fro like demons baring their claws, lending the wilderness an even more eerie air.
But in the next instant, that eerie stillness was torn to shreds by a figure hurtling in from the horizon, roaring past like a falling star.
That's right. It was Li Hai, charging at full speed.
Boom!
Trailing a roiling, howling cloud of pure-white sonic boom, he pierced through layer upon layer of rain and swept low over the boundless wilderness, dragging a long streamer of steaming vapor behind him. Like a scythe, he carved a broad rift through the endless waves of desolate yellow grass below.
This was the hideous scar the fierce pressure of Li Hai's flight had gouged into the wilderness as he hurtled through the air.
But Li Hai was simply moving too fast. The broad gash, with grass flying and dirt spraying, was like an earth-dragon growing without end. In the blink of an eye, it followed in his wake, smashing rocks and splitting trees as it tore across the wilderness, reaching the far horizon swallowed by wind and rain.
Yet despite the tremendous commotion he had caused, Li Hai himself paid it no mind.
At that moment, he was recalling all