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Great Yu Calendar Year 2985, Year 153 of the Wuzong Era
Zhaoyang County
The pitiful moonlight, like a thin veil draped over the pitch-black city walls.
The iron gates, tens of meters tall, had collapsed, and from the axe and sword marks scarring their surfaces, it was clear that a brutal battle had taken place here.
A further glance inside and outside the city reinforced this certainty!
Thick smoke filled the sky; houses lay in ruins.
Inside the city, starved bodies littered the ground; outside, corpses sprawled across the fields.
Among them moved martial artists, their expressions numb and their attire varied, plundering the clothing and belongings from the bodies.
From dark corners came bursts of hysterical, cruel laughter, along with the wails and screams of women...
Undoubtedly, it was a tragic scene of chaos and war.
"Stop it, all of you!"
