In the blink of an eye, a month had already passed.
The mountain winds howled through Blackwind Ridge. Because climbers often fell from the high peaks, the nearby residents believed that demonic winds haunted the ridge, and thus it gradually came to be called Blackwind Ridge.
However, Blackwind Ridge had one unique feature: its mountain paths twisted through nine bends and eighteen turns, while its trees grew thick and lush. Any traveler unfamiliar with the route who tried to climb the mountain could fall into the jaws of wild beasts at any moment.
Such dangerous terrain gradually became a gathering place for bandits who had taken to the hills, and Blackwind Stronghold came into being.
The chief of Blackwind Stronghold was a woman named Fang Jiaolong. To rule over a pack of grown men, she naturally had her own exceptional qualities.
Fang Jiaolong did not like men, but loved women alone. Any woman in the stronghold with even a little beauty was taken into her possession, leaving only withered flowers and fallen willows for the foul men of the stronghold to toss about as they pleased.
Since Joan of Arc had been abducted to the stronghold by Fang Jiaolong, she had gone through many shifts in mindset.
At first, she believed it was all Aiou's conspiracy. Players had Resurrection Coins; how could something like transmigration possibly happen? That was the greatest flaw in Aiou's scheme.
Yet during her days living in Blackwind Stronghold, she had personally witnessed Fang Jiaolong's tyranny, the sinister cunning of certain bandits, and even watched a grand drama of "rebellion."
Several skilled members of the stronghold had joined forces with Fang Jiaolong's woman to plot against Fang Jiaolong.
And the reason was even more bizarre. That woman despised Fang Jiaolong for "not having one." She liked