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The moon radiated an eerie, ill-omened purple light, staining the entire world beyond the hollow with a layer of strange violet.

Beneath the Purple Moon, gray mist churned without cease.

Within the gray mist, a ruined city could vaguely be seen standing alone upon the wilderness.

Several savage breaches had been torn through the city walls by some immense force. Flames soared within the city, while thick smoke billowed into the sky.

Outside the walls was a battered remnant army, stripped of helmets and armor as they fled in panic.

Their armor was of an unusual style, belonging to none of the factions known to anyone present.

And behind that remnant army—Gray Monsters covered the land and sky, surging from the end of the horizon like a tidal wave.

Those monsters were twisted and indescribable in form. Some resembled humans yet were not human, while others resembled beasts yet were not beasts. Their sole shared trait was the eerie purple light burning within their hollow eye sockets, identical to the Purple Moon in the sky.

"???"

"What is that?"

The sudden upheaval left everyone present stunned.

"Rumble—!"

Before anyone could react, the Heavenly Dao Will of the Southeastern Province seemed to have suffered some intolerable provocation at that very moment.

"Whoosh..."

As the gale roared, the sky over this region abruptly changed. Countless dark clouds rolled in from all directions, gathering above the hollow into a black vortex that blotted out heaven and earth.

"Rumble..."

Lightning frantically gathered within the clouds before pouring down like waterfalls—it was not bolt after bolt of lightning, but cascades upon cascades of thunder.

Purple-gold lightning containing the power of destruction struck the spreading gray mist like heavenly punishment, reducing every wisp of gray fog attempting to cross the hollow's edge to nothing.

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