At that moment, it wasn’t just the Dahe ghost city that trembled.0

Far beyond its haunted borders, countless rogue cultivators struggling to make a living suddenly froze in place, alarmed. All work ceased. Heads turned in unison, gazes filled with dread as they looked toward the distant city cloaked in sinister energy.0

Above, flocks of birds shrieked and scattered, their cries mournful as they fled the skies.0

On the ground, beasts of all kinds broke into wild, desperate sprints, abandoning instinct and territory in sheer panic.0

Within Fallen Phoenix Mountain, large swathes of rock came crashing down. Stone after stone tumbled, rumbling through the valley like an avalanche of doom.0

From deep beneath the shattered ground, a massive form began to stir, struggling to rise.0

From the depths of the ghostly abyss, torrents of yin energy, ghostly energy, and fiend qi surged toward him. These vile energies poured into its barely-corporeal body, once ethereal and transparent, now growing increasingly solid, more and more real with every breath...0