In an underground cavern, two women in their twenties who looked strikingly alike, one clad in scarlet armor and the other in pale blue armor, were battling a swarm of enormous centipedes several feet long.
Both women had delicate features, yet they had transformed into small giants over ten feet tall. Flames rippled across one woman's armor, while white frost billowed from the other's. Every monstrous centipede was either reduced to a heap of charcoal or turned into a white ice sculpture.
Deep in a golden desert, a girl of sixteen or seventeen rode a mass of red fire through the air, chasing a group of more than ten Demonic Path disciples ahead of her.
Laughing like silver bells, she held a scarlet gourd in one hand and sent half-purple, half-red fire crows spraying from it.
Though these fire crows were only a foot or so long, the moment they spread their wings, they became streaks of red light that pounced on the fleeing Demonic Path disciples with the speed of thunder striking before one could cover one's ears.
The Demonic Path disciples kept blocking with all kinds of magical artifacts, even taking the offensive with talismans and spells, but the fire crows seemed deathless. With a mere flash of purple light, they dissolved the incoming artifacts and spells, then lunged again, piercing the disciples' protective light screens and turning them into human-shaped balls of fire.
"Half-Extreme Spirit Flame!"
"You witch from the Four Symbols Sect! I'll take you down with me!"
In desperation, a Black Soul Sect disciple turned around and drove a white-bone spear artifact straight at the red-skirted girl, charging along with it.
The girl did not even blink. She merely shook the scarlet gourd in her hand, and three half-purple, half-red fire crows shot out