Shi Yin and Yu Jiutian vanished completely from the nameless valley.
The thick mist gathered again, burying all their plans beneath it.
Outside the valley, the mother and son who depended on each other continued to live their impoverished yet warm lives.
Time slipped by.
Three months were no more than an imperceptible instant in the long river of history, but for certain lives, they were enough to turn heaven and earth upside down.
Rumble!!!
A bolt of lightning tore through the pitch-black night sky, and a torrential downpour soon followed.
Cold rain relentlessly scoured the remote valley, while fierce winds scattered its heavy mist.
A Half-Demon boy knelt in the mud.
His once innocent eyes were now bloodshot.
With his tender little hands, he frantically scraped a hole in the sodden earth.
Beside him lay a woman's body, silent and still.
She was his mother.
Three months ago, she had gently wiped away his sweat and promised to make him Spirit Mushroom Soup. Now, a gaping, bloody hole marred her chest, and the eyes that had always held a smile had not closed even in death.
"Why..."
His hands had long since begun bleeding from digging through the mud.
"We already hid so far away..."
"We never did anything wrong...!"
"Why did those human cultivators still have to kill her!?"
"Why!!!"
Unable to contain his despair any longer, the boy threw back his head and let out a roar that should never have belonged to someone his age.
Rain poured into his mouth, yet it could not quench the karmic flames of hatred burning in his heart.
Not a trace of innocence remained on his young face.
"I hate you..."
"I'll kill every last one of you!!!"
Just as the boy glared hatefully at the heavens above-
"Hum!!!!"