December 7th, 2014. Winter. Heavy snow.
The sky above Hongcheng was shrouded in rare snow clouds.
This sweltering city, often likened to a furnace and where sub-zero temperatures were rare even in winter, was now experiencing a once-in-a-millennium super-blizzard, swept up in the chaotic atmospheric turbulence brought on by the Spiritual Energy Revival.
It wasn't just this city. All of Southern Zhengguo, the entire world, was being affected by the unpredictable climate of Spiritual Qi. Earthquakes rocked North America, scorching winds and a blistering sun baked the ancient cities of Ross Country, the Central Plains of Fusang were inundated by a hundred days of heavy rain, and the European Union was forced to evacuate its cities along the Mediterranean Sea as a sudden rise in sea level swallowed them one by one.
