On the wasteland, the Spirit-Devouring Storm wailed and roared, yet it could not drown out the terrifying thunder of two figures colliding.
Boom!
The Eight Trigrams Manifestation Axe, wreathed in azure gale-force energy that could topple mountains and split the earth, crashed head-on into the storm of the Dragon-Elephant Fist! A ring of shock waves spread outward, throwing heaven and earth into turmoil.
Every bit as "lively" as that savage power were the curses mixed into the storm:
"Pah! Get the hell away from your grandpa! What rotten luck!" Ji Lingri traded blows while cursing at the top of her lungs, so furious her lungs nearly burst!
She had merely been passing through this wasteland when she spotted a handsome young gentleman in moon-white scholar's robes standing amid the wind and sand. His profile was upright as bamboo, his bearing gentle as jade, with an elegant air of standing aloof from the mortal world.
And Eldest Princess Ji had two great passions in life: fighting and admiring beauties.
At this "lovely sight," her eyes had immediately lit up. Finding him very much to her taste, she had taken an interest and approached to tease him-ahem, make his acquaintance. If she could "invite" him back to the Great Zhou Immortal Dynasty as a guest elder, or perhaps... well, that would be even better.
But what the hell was this creature?
He swung that enormous axe and charged in like a brute. Not only were his moves savage, he kept declaring himself everyone's grandpa!
"Where's the gentleness?! Where's the elegance?! Did you feed it all to the damn dogs?!"
"If I'd known you were this sort of trash, even glancing at you as I passed would have scorched my eyes!" Good heavens, the people she hated most were those cut from the