South of Yongsu Prefecture.
Beneath a somber sky, near a truncated mountain range, the ruins of a town were faintly visible. This place must have once been a reasonably prosperous market town.
Now, however, nothing remained but damp earth and the stench of rot mixed within it.
BOOM!
A bolt of lightning as thick as a grown man's arm flashed across the somber sky, striking the center of the town's ruins and shattering an already collapsed wall.
BOOM!
BOOM!
More bolts of lightning struck one after another, sending flesh flying and dust billowing. The lightning was striking a disorderly army entrenched here.
WHOOSH—
Like the howling of a sea wind, a dense wave of Nether Qi surged from the depths of the mountain range, neutralizing the thunderclouds gathering in the sky.
