An Old Friend on the Ancient Icefield, a Single Seal Subdues the Void and Claims a True Spirit
In the Far North, the wind cut like knives, and snowflakes as large as goose feathers fell all year round.
This was the northernmost edge of humanity's vast marshlands. Beyond the defensive line at Skywolf Pass stretched the desolate Far-North Icefield, a million li across.
The Great Zhou Immortal Dynasty had stood for ten thousand years. Though these defenses had weathered countless storms, at the court's height, several Golden Core Stage generals had sealed the border with over ten thousand rays of demon-repelling golden light, keeping the barbarians and fiends beyond the frontier from crossing even half a step.
Yet several days earlier, Skywolf Pass had been completely erased overnight by that world-destroying black fog embodying the power to format the world and extinguish all existence.
A thick, clammy layer of pitch-black mist had utterly shrouded this once-pristine plain of ice and snow.
The black mist crawled across the land with the blizzards, corroding it and freezing the soil into dark-green ice crystals. Wherever it brushed past, the spiritual energy of the earth veins instantly dried up and turned to ash.
"Woooo—!"
Deep in the blizzard, a low horn call carried far through the bone-chilling air.
Across the snowfield stretching beyond sight, enormous black-armored warships glowed faintly red, their hulls covered in evil-repelling formation patterns. They cleaved through the blizzard that blotted out the sky, rumbling northward.
This was the four-hundred-thousand-strong main force of the [Qingzhou Suppression Army], personally commanded by Chu Bai on its northern expedition.
The army formed the "Mystic Yellow Bedrock Battle Formation" amid the blizzard, its pale-yellow barrier holding back the gales and calamity aura.
The soldiers' faces were stern, but with every step, a faint resonance of spiritual light rippled through the ground beneath their feet.
Behind them, the Heavenly Abyss Merchant Alliance had already