Deep within Guixu.
Southern Mo, the Deathless Kingdom.
A streak of light descended from the heavens and landed on Jade Splendor Mount Hua.
When Lu Changfeng set foot on this land once more, a graceful figure waiting anxiously inside Jade Splendor Hall atop the mountain suddenly raised her head.
"Changfeng..."
Ji Xian stared blankly at the blue-robed man approaching on the clouds. Her usually commanding eyes filled with glistening tears in an instant.
She gathered up her skirts, forgot all her customary composure, and ran toward him, throwing herself straight into his warm, solid embrace.
"You're back... You're finally back..."
Lu Changfeng reached out and gently gathered her trembling body into his arms.
"I'm back."
But-
At that tender moment of reunion after their long separation, a sharp glint suddenly flashed through Lu Changfeng's deep eyes.
He raised his head and looked toward the distant edge of the sky.
Hum-
The Kunlun Sword mark on his right wrist, flowing with dark blue radiance, suddenly began to tremble violently!
It was a resonance from deep within his blood, answering something far away.
The same origin.
Fragments of the Kunlun Ruins.
Its original form, divided into three and scattered between heaven and earth, was now calling to him from afar with an aura clearer and mightier than ever before!
And from the source of that aura, a terrifying pressure, almost tangible and vast enough to blot out the sky, swept toward Jade Splendor Mount Hua amid boundless wind, thunder, clouds, and rain, at a speed that tore through the heavens!
"He's here."
Lu Changfeng slowly moved Ji Xian behind him.
His blue robes snapped in the sudden gale.
"Ji Wuji."
Rumble-
Dark clouds surged across the sky, lightning flashed, and thunder roared.
In a single instant, Hongfang's previously clear sky was swallowed