Ink-black clouds crowded the sky, blotting out the scarlet that had filled it moments earlier. They hung so heavily they seemed about to fall, their oppressive weight making the entire world seem silent. An indifferent wind swept through fiercely, leaving cries of alarm behind. Fragile flowers and grasses had already bowed trembling to the ground. Before the mountain rain arrived, the wind filled the tower!
"Rumble!"
A thunderous roar erupted without the slightest warning, ringing clearly across a hundred-mile radius. Even the red-walled, tiled houses shook from side to side beneath the sound. Terrifying shock waves spread across the heavens, scattering the ink-black clouds and exposing the dim sky beneath.
A towering figure plummeted from above, streaking through the clouds like a meteor. The rushing air carved a long trail behind him before he plunged headfirst into a small hill in the Sunset Forest.
"Boom!!!"
In an instant, the hilltop shattered into tens of thousands of stones that sprayed in every direction. Amid billowing dust, the debris battered the surrounding woods, sending leaves fluttering everywhere and snapping numerous towering trees at their waists. Birds and beasts scattered from the once-peaceful forest. The Soul Beasts dwelling in the Sunset Forest fled in terror, afraid of being caught like fish in a pond struck by disaster, as though some dreadful Ferocious Beast lurked there.
Where the hill had stood, a meteor crater now plunged more than a hundred meters deep. The impact had even disturbed the earth's veins, stirring subterranean fire. Magma heated to over a thousand degrees Celsius surged through the fissures onto the surface. Amid steaming sulfurous mist, the Black Dragon Di Tian's mighty, sculpted figure emerged, his muscles knotted like a statue's. The surrounding magma, capable of melting rock and woodland alike, could not harm his flawless dragon body