The Hundred Thousand Mountains stretched on, cloaked in endless jungle.
A Blazing Sun suddenly appeared above them, its light shining in every direction.
Every living creature in the forest bathed in its radiance. Whether humans gathered in tribes or birds and beasts roaming the mountains, strange fragments surfaced deep within their bloodlines.
In a haze, the mountain's creatures grew drowsy and stumbled about, as though they had fallen into a dream in broad daylight!
But all at once!
The second sun in the sky shuddered violently, then broke apart!
In an instant, it vanished without a trace.
The strangeness in the forest disappeared just as quickly. The people, beasts, and other creatures beguiled by its light recovered at once, each feeling a hollow sense of loss.
But some noticed slight changes in themselves.
"This..."
Feeling terrifying strength surge endlessly through his body, Xi Nu was both shocked and delighted. Deep in his heart, a spark of ambition began to grow!
Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh—
Violent, uncanny winds swept in from every direction!
Several bottomless rifts immediately split the barren earth!
Amid the flying sand, several illusory figures flickered in and out of sight.
Some were large, some small. They seemed near one moment and far the next, shifting without cease.
Suddenly!
A Spirit Light shot skyward from one of the rifts!
The wavering figures around it instantly froze and turned their gazes toward it as one!
Whoosh—
Dim rays carrying a salty, fishy tang surged in from every direction. They circled that point of Spirit Light, slowly gathering to outline a human form. In the blink of an eye, it took the shape of the Red-Robed Man.
The Red-Robed Man's eyes flew open. He screamed, and the aura around him withered. Pitch-black Rainbow Light streamed from his seven orifices, while Spirit