A silver moon hung high overhead, spilling its clear radiance across the land. All things seemed to have fallen asleep, with only a few faint birdcalls drifting in from afar. It was a stillness with a charm all its own.
At that moment, in a simple little room in Wangluo City, Zhu Zhuqing rested her head on her arms, her clear eyes gazing through the window as she admired the cool night.
"Hm? What's that?"
Before Zhu Zhuqing's eyes, the void suddenly began to tremble. An unimaginably terrifying force formed visible ripples in space, sending them surging outward in all directions, ring after ring.
Under those spatial fluctuations, the void gradually twisted, spinning rapidly around a central point. As time passed, it spun faster and faster.
Rumble!
Under Zhu Zhuqing's incredulous gaze, the void became like a glass bottle, covered in a web of cracks, before shattering with a thunderous crash!
The next instant, a spatial rift appeared in the void, and red moonlight suddenly spilled through it.
At the same time, Wangluo City's lord, the master of the Spirit Hall Branch, and several higher-ranking soul masters were all startled awake by that earth-shaking sound.
One after another, they summoned their martial souls, radiating formidable auras as they raced toward Wangluo City's walls. As they hurried along, they asked the people beside them whether anyone knew what had happened.
Just then, a furious roar that pierced the clouds erupted from the spatial rift!
An enormous, hideous beast claw reached out of the rift, followed by a massive leg like a mountain range, and then an immense head.
The claw seized the edge of the spatial rift, slowly drawing that huge, ferocious head through it. Its savage features came into view, revealing a pair of saber teeth more than three meters