Pill Continent, Famine Mountain.
Steep blue-black cliffs towered over the land of Pill Continent like tombstones. They rose tens of thousands of zhang high and were one of Pill Continent's famed forbidden zones.
Yet at this moment, a figure stood atop the deserted summit.
Clad in a blood-red robe, his face pale, he resembled an iron statue embedded deep in the twilight. A thick stench of blood lingered around him, refusing to disperse.
"This is the place." His nostrils twitched. Then his lips suddenly split apart, baring a mouthful of sharp, ghastly white teeth as he laughed wildly. "That's right! What lively, sweet blood aura. Truly intoxicating!"
Twilight deepened, and his laughter echoed over the vast blue-black mountain range like the cry of a night owl.
"Blood Sea Pagoda!" With a shake of his arms, the peak Emperor-level Spirit Demon erupted, flooding heaven and earth and sweeping through all eight directions.
At his command, winds and clouds suddenly churned in the sky, gathering into countless crimson clouds.
The clouds rapidly swelled at a rate visible to the naked eye. In the blink of an eye, they connected and merged into an enormous sea of blood clouds stretching thousands of li.
A bizarre scarlet hue firmly claimed the entire sky. The blood clouds roiled violently, as though countless giant hands were stirring within them.
Splash, splash, splash... Blood rain, each drop as large as a bean, poured down in a deluge. Like thick droplets of blood, it blanketed every corner of Famine Mountain.
"Heh heh heh, stop hiding. No living creature in the Nine Provinces can escape the nose of me, the Blood Emperor." The figure atop the mountain looked down upon the ranges below, letting out a harsh, sinister cackle.
Amid his eerie laughter, the blood rain seeped into Famine