The Tianwu Continent sits upon the mysterious and vast Blue Star, where humans and various races have mastered formidable mystical arts for over a millennia. In this era of survival of the fittest, all races will stop at nothing to stay alive.
In the western Snowy Wasteland of the Jialuo Empire, towering snow-covered peaks stretch for tens of thousands of miles, with ten-thousand-year-old ice mountains sprouting up like bamboo shoots after a spring rain. The Snowy Wasteland is essentially a desolate expanse, home to very few living species.
As the first ray of morning light illuminates the earth, a young man in white with a high ponytail sits cross-legged in an unnamed mountain hollow nestled among ten-thousand-year-old ice peaks. He blinks sleepily and slowly stands up.
With a recurve bow slung across his back and a long sword in hand, he is tall, mighty, and full of muscle, featuring refined and resolute facial features. His burning gaze sweeps across the boundless Snowy Wasteland, devoid of even a shred of fear.
"Ice Ridge Eagle, where on earth are you? A month—a full month—and I haven't even seen a single feather!"
To gather the medicinal ingredients needed to cure his parents' illness, this twenty-year-old youth has traveled far and wide for over half a year, managing to find only a few rare heavenly treasures. The gall bladder of the Ice Ridge Eagle is one such crucial ingredient.
To hunt an Ice Ridge Eagle, he ventured alone into the Snowy Wasteland, not daring to slack off for even a moment. Less than a year and a half remains before his parents' time runs out, and he has yet to gather even half of the required heavenly treasures!
*Whoosh, whoosh.*
A piercingly cold wind blows past. Enduring the biting chill, he leaps forward with a bound.
*Swish, swish.*
With a few agile bounds, Li Lanhao reaches the peak of the mountain. For a Heavenly Martial Master, taking three steps to scale a snowy peak is a walk in the park.
After all, for a twenty-year-old youth in the Jialuo Empire, reaching the level of a Heavenly Martial Master already makes him a standout among his peers.
After all, the Martial Practitioner is merely the starting point for cultivators on the continent. Above the Martial Practitioner lies the Qi Realm with its nascent spiritual power. Further up are the Tianwu Practitioner, the Tianwu Dao, and then the Heavenly Martial Master. Each realm is divided into nine minor tiers, followed by the Peak Third Realm Heavenly Martial Master, and the Tianwu Sect.
Yet, only upon reaching the Tianwu Spirit can one use Aura Wing Transformation to soar through the nine heavens!
Li Lanhao steps onto the summit of the snowy peak, overlooking the land below, missing not a single trace of movement around him. However, across the high altitude and the ground for a hundred miles in every direction, let alone an Ice Ridge Eagle, there isn't a single living creature to be seen besides himself.
Li Lanhao takes several long-expired, rock-hard flatbreads out of his Ring of Holding and begins to gnaw on them. Every bite is hard to swallow, yet he continues to chew voraciously, his eyes scanning his surroundings.
*Crunch, crunch.*
Li Lanhao chews the stale flatbread with all his might, the sound in his mouth crisp and loud.
Suddenly?
*Boom, rumble, rumble.*
*Splash.*
In the distant horizon, a pillar of red light shoots forth from the void. Carrying terrifying energy with the sheer might to destroy heaven and earth, the berserk energy bursts apart violently. Even though Li Lanhao is currently three thousand miles away from the light pillar, it still makes his soul tremble with shock.
*Thud.*
"Good grief, what... what on earth is this light pillar? If this thing hit me, wouldn't it... leave not even a scrap of my bones behind? What happened? Is the continent... ending?"
The flatbread slips unconsciously from Li Lanhao's hand as it hits the ground. He stares with wide eyes at the distant pillar of light, muttering incoherently to himself.
Damn it, he can feel a chill running down his back. It's not that Li Lanhao lacks composure, but rather that the energy carried by the red light pillar is simply too berserk—surely not even the top powerhouses across the entire Tianwu Continent have ever possessed such might!
*Rumble, rumble.*
*Splash.*
Before Li Lanhao can even recover his wits?
An earthquake and avalanches break out across thousands of miles of the Snowy Wasteland. The ground violently trembles, countless thousands-of-miles-high snowy peaks collapse with a roar, fierce winds rise, and snow fills the sky.
Several snowy peaks even begin to erupt volcanically. Amidst the dust-filled sky, massive boulders and fireballs rain down overwhelmingly, smashing countless glaciers and snowy peaks to the ground and making the entire Snowy Wasteland look like the advent of the apocalypse.
Had this not been the Snowy Wasteland, but any other place instead, this surge of berserk energy would have been enough to annihilate millions of living beings.
The snowy peak beneath Li Lanhao's feet fails to escape the devastation of the void energy either. The peak snaps halfway up its slope, and countless massive boulders, along with Li Lanhao, plunge into the abyss.
"Is it going to end like this? No... If I die, my parents won't live another year and a half either, and who will protect my younger brother? No, I refuse to die here!"
Treading upon boulders tumbling downward, Li Lanhao leaps desperately toward higher ground. With movements so swift and postures so dashing, whenever a rock flies toward his body, he cleaves it to pieces with his sword without a moment's hesitation. He refuses to die in the Snowy Wasteland before he has gathered enough medicinal ingredients!
...
Meanwhile, the blood-colored pillar of light three thousand miles away gradually dims, and the Qiongxue Jade Peak directly beneath the light pillar has already been leveled to the ground by it. One must know that the Qiongxue Jade Peak is the tallest and largest mountain in the Snowy Wasteland!
After shattering the jade peak, the red light pillar happens to impact a massive platform directly beneath it. At first glance, it looks like a special magic array.
The energy carried by the red light pillar gradually grows milder. Just as the pillar is about to dissipate, a peerless woman in red falls from its center. In the blink of an eye, she drops from the transport channel, landing steadily on the central platform of the array, followed by a long spear that falls and embeds itself in the ground beside her.
*Boom.*
Following a deafening crash, the red light pillar contracts toward the void at breakneck speed, and in the blink of an eye, the red glow vanishes.
At this moment, the woman in red slowly opens her eyes. Her thick mane of silver hair dances in the wind, and a pair of phoenix eyes with peach-blossom brows are soul-stirring. With black, willow-leaf eyebrows, upturned long eyelashes, and an exquisite face of peerless beauty, she is stunning beyond compare.
The woman is very tall, and her figure is explosive to the extreme—slightly robust and plump, yet proportioned to absolute perfection.
At this moment, Wusha wears a simple golden headpiece on her head, dressed in a blood-red high-slit long dress paired with combat boots, revealing a flawless, super-long left leg.
Her diagonally-draped robe also exposes a well-defined and perfect right arm with striking muscular abs. Of course, her underarm view remains hidden, and she wears a pair of golden bracers on both hands.
Moreover, the woman's revealing attire forms a sharp contrast with the Snowy Wasteland. The proportions of her breasts—which are on the verge of bursting through her robe—and her oversized hips are flawlessly perfect. If any man were to catch a glimpse of what lies beneath her clothes, it is no exaggeration to say it would make him spew blood and die on the spot.
It is her—the woman in red is none other than [Blood Demon Empress Wusha], one of the Three Shas across the Heavens and Myriad Worlds, and a supreme, peak sovereign hailing from the Tianmo Continent.
Having just arrived in this realm with her mind in a daze, Wusha pauses for a moment before narrowing her phoenix eyes and murmuring coldly!
"Where is this?"
As the words imply, along with Wusha parting her plump red lips, a wondrous, ethereal, celestial sound echoes through heaven and earth. Her voice is as ethereal and melodious as an infant's, yet tinged with endless killing intent and the majesty of one in a position of authority.
The next second?
*Cough, cough.*
*Puff.*
As the Blood Demon Empress Wusha speaks, she can no longer suppress the scalding hot current surging in her chest. Abruptly, a mouthful of fresh blood gushes out. She instinctively props herself up with the blood-colored long spear, her peerless figure swaying precariously before she stumbles and drops to her knees.
That's right, Wusha has sustained severe internal injuries. She had only managed to break through to the realm beyond the peak of the Tianmo Continent with the utmost difficulty.
Yet, as the supreme peak sovereign of the Tianmo Continent, the Blood Demon Empress almost burst apart and died because she could not withstand the berserk demonic power following her breakthrough.
However, just as the Empress was on the verge of exploding from within, unwilling to blast apart and destroy her homeland, she tore through the void to activate a transport array and banish herself away.