The Forbidden Zone's Fury, an Alchemy Prodigy, and a Lineage's Daughter Born of a Concubine!

Soul-Rending Mountain, one of the eight great Life Forbidden Zones.

Boundless and immeasurably vast, dark mountain ranges stretched everywhere across this land.

They towered into the clouds, a sinister aura spreading through them, as though they were the dwelling place of Netherworld Wraiths.

Located at the Cosmic Frontier, this place was terrifying beyond measure, like a descent into a gloomy hell. From time to time, the wails of ghosts and howls of wolves rang out.

Wandering souls drifted everywhere through the nothingness. Some with powerful cultivation devoured one another to strengthen their soul bodies.

This was Soul-Rending Mountain, one of the eight great Life Forbidden Zones and home to numerous dark races.

At this moment, deep within Soul-Rending Mountain, a mighty race maintained meticulous order, cultivating by devouring the wandering souls of heaven and earth and all manner of yin energy.

Within a great hall, ghostly sobs intertwined, and a voice thundered out, shaking heaven and earth with horrifying force. Piercing shrieks accompanied it, deafening enough to rupture eardrums.

"The Ye Family's Young Master has gone too far!"

"Does he really think he can toy with us Soul-Devouring Heavenly Demons however he pleases?!"

"Does he think an invincible backer lets him run wild without restraint? When did we Soul-Devouring Heavenly Demons ever provoke him? Even our Young Master was merely a member of the Dark Sequence chosen by the heavenly mandate, yet he was slaughtered just like that, without explanation!"

At the highest seat in the hall, a figure in blood-red and black robes shouted furiously. His pointed ears made him resemble a Western vampire.

Of course... it was nothing more than impotent rage. He smashed the objects in the hall at will, venting his anger on his subordinates.

To have become the patriarch of the Soul-Devouring Heavenly Demons, he