At that moment.
「In the Meiling Mountain Range.」
In the surrounding rivers.
Beneath the thick snow and soil, snakes hibernating for the winter were drawn out by a mysterious aura. They awoke from their dens, flicking their tongues and hissing.
In the bone-chilling river water, schools of emaciated carp, their spines marked with Red Gold lines, swam against the current, churning the water as they struggled upstream.
It wasn't just snakes and fish. In the frigid air, all sorts of long-slumbering insects and strange spiritual bugs were startled awake by an inexplicable ripple. They broke through the soil and instinctively 'looked' in a single direction, as if gazing upon some immense existence.
A similar scene had occurred once before, several months ago.
That time, their actions had been driven by fear of some vast and terrifying existence, and they had not dared to draw near out of awe.
