The cutting winds of the Far North howled like blades, whipping ice shards across the sky and shrouding the vast land in a deadly chill. Yet today, this frozen realm had been tainted by a nauseating, sickly-sweet stench of blood and an aura of darkness.
Before a forcibly torn rift in space in the Far North, the Demon Empress, leader of the Holy Spirit Cult, stood beside an avatar of the Abyssal Sage King's will. Her dark purple gown snapped in the fierce wind, outlining a graceful figure steeped in murderous intent; his pitch-black eyes, devoid of whites, coldly surveyed the land below that would soon become a battlefield.
Above the Icefield before them floated a blood-red declaration of war, condensed from dark Divine Power and abyss origin. It was not delivered to anyone. Instead, it became a column of blood-red light that shot into the heavens, staining the sky over the Far North an eerie dark crimson. The terrifying pressure and proclamation it carried instantly reached every corner of the Douluo Continent.
"To Yun Ming of Shrek Academy, to be opened personally."
The Demon Empress's icy voice seemed to pierce time and space, exploding in the ears of everyone in Shrek Academy's Sea God Pavilion. At the same time, the contents of the blood-red declaration appeared clearly in the minds of Yun Ming and every powerful figure in the Sea God Pavilion:
"Three days from now, in the Far North, the ultimate battle. This battle shall determine the life or death of the continent, the survival or destruction of the Plane. If our Holy Spirit Cult and the Abyss Plane prevail, the Douluo Continent shall belong to the Abyss, and all living beings shall become fodder for its bloodlust. Shrek Academy shall be the first reduced to scorched earth,