Within the bounds of Zhang Mountain, spiritual energy flowed like a gentle stream, and all was peaceful and serene.
Amid the mountains, the Jade Towers appeared and vanished, occasionally spilling streams of seven-colored light.
Fairy Zhang Hua sat in one of the bedchambers, combing her hair before a mirror and admiring her reflection with wistful self-pity. Suddenly, the horn comb in her hand stopped, and disbelief crept onto her beautiful face.
Qiao Niang stood beside her, arranging flowering branches in a vase. Sensing something amiss, she turned and asked with a trace of confusion, "My lady, what is wrong?"
Fairy Zhang Hua spoke each word through gritted teeth. "Han. You. Old. Scoundrel! You actually dared to kill him!"
At this, disbelief appeared on Qiao Niang's face as well.
She knew that the "him" Fairy Zhang Hua had mentioned was Hu Ze, the reigning court's Grand Preceptor.
Judging by her lady's words, Hu Ze had actually died-and at the hands of Master Han, a Saint of the Confucian Dao.
"My lady..." Qiao Niang opened her mouth to say something, only to discover that Fairy Zhang Hua had already vanished.
A moment later, the earth veins beyond Zhang Mountain stirred. A streak of red light flew toward Autumn Wind Plain, covering hundreds of thousands of miles in the flick of a finger and arriving at the mountain plain within a few breaths.
Fairy Zhang Hua stood in midair, her nine Heavenly Fox tails streaming upward as illusory rainbow streams pierced Heaven and Earth.
As Heaven shook and the earth trembled, even the five elements vital energy was stirred by her. The vast, mighty forces of nature surged ceaselessly, as though she held all the authority of Heaven and Earth in her grasp.
The world knew that the Heavenly Fox lineage possessed the