Heaven Dou Empire, Mysterious North City.
Mysterious North City stood at the northernmost edge of the empire's frontier and was the city closest to the Far North of the Douluo Continent. After the onslaught of soul beasts from the Far North a few days earlier, this sparsely populated city had fallen into utter ruin. Crumbling walls lay everywhere, and even the blood covering the ground had been buried beneath a thick blanket of snow. As far as the eye could see, everything was white.
For those living in the inland regions of the Heaven Dou Empire, the depths of winter were already bitterly cold, but the weather here was colder still. Temperatures hovered around minus ten degrees Celsius most of the time and had once plunged to minus fifty in midwinter.
Howling winds, endless snow.
Brutal cold spread across the land. Living creatures rarely appeared, and silence reigned everywhere.
Suddenly, a fierce gust swept down from high above.
Then an enormous shadow cut across the heavens. Broad dragon wings spread like a cloud, even blotting out the sun.
A dragon! It was a dragon!
And not just any giant dragon, but a sovereign of the Dragon Clan!
Beneath the sunlight, the black dragon stretched his enormous body to its fullest, his palm-sized scales shimmering with a metallic sheen.
Judging by his size alone, this black dragon was a full hundred meters long. The draconic might he naturally radiated left every animal along his path trembling!
More shocking still, the Dragon Clan had always been proud, yet a line of people actually stood upon this black dragon's back.
The person at their head was none other than Yang Ming!
Di Tian's back was spacious, with firm muscles and protruding scales, though those scales were a little rough underfoot. Riding on a