"The weather's changed again—"
In a county town of the Great Shun Dynasty.
The townspeople looked up at the sky, which had suddenly gone dark. After a brief panic, they scattered as though they were used to it, fleeing home and shutting their doors tight.
Soon, lightning flashed and thunder exploded, mingled with roars like those of wild beasts.
Blood rain pattered down upon the world, staining the deserted Long Street red.
Everyone huddled in corners, refusing to look or listen.
The silence grew suffocating. Flimsy wooden doors could protect no one.
Even the most ordinary mortal could sense that earth-shaking changes had come over the Great Shun Dynasty of late.
Rare sights like natural disasters were appearing across the land at once, and ever more frequently. By the time they ended, nearby mountains had often been flattened and great rivers cut off.
Now and then, streaks of rainbow light could be seen racing through the deepest clouds.
Great demons who had existed only in storytellers' tales were gradually reappearing in the mortal world.
"The world's gone mad!"
A figure was forced down from the sky and stumbled before finding his footing.
He breathed hard, his pupils dilated.
Cultivators with even a few connections knew far more than ordinary people.
Word had it that an existence of unspeakably lofty status had fallen in Great Shun, bringing a hidden colossus back to the surface.
Its target was the entire Heng River!
That meant every Half-Life Immortal Sect was suffering indiscriminate attacks.
When that sleeping beast awoke, the mere tip of its iceberg-like might was enough to make the whole mortal world tremble!
Not long ago, he had even seen a Half-Life Immortal flee toward the Heng River in utter disarray, half his immortal body smashed apart. Several figures pursued and intercepted