Not a cloud marred the sky for ten thousand miles, and the blazing sun hung high.
It was the first truly sunny day in all these days of deepest winter. The temperature at ground level climbed steadily, driving away the bitter chill. As heat met cold, wisps of mist rose and drifted through the air.
In the distance, an enormous mountain range sprawled along the border between the Heaven Dou Empire and the Star Luo Empire, stretching for untold tens of thousands of miles. Like a giant dragon crouching upon the earth, it formed the boundary between the two nations, with the Star Luo Empire on the left and the Heaven Dou Empire on the right.
Towering peaks rose and fell, and lush primeval forests sheltered countless living creatures. Yet this was not the Star Dou Great Forest. No high-level soul beasts lived here, only low-level soul beasts roaming in pairs and packs.
Deep within this winding mountain range stood a vast collection of buildings. Villages of timber and stone followed the contours of the mountains. Years of isolation from the outside world had left the inhabitants following customs from a thousand years ago. Their clothing differed markedly from that of outsiders, bearing depictions of a ferocious-looking giant dragon.
This was the ancestral territory of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan.
Legend had it that in ancient times, after the Dragon God lost his battle against the gods of the Divine Realm, he fell here. His corpse became this mountain range stretching ten thousand miles. The founding ancestor of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan had gained extraordinary benefits from these Dragon God's Ruins, causing a martial soul mutation that produced the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon martial soul passed down for centuries—the beast martial soul with the greatest offensive power