Chapter 685: Ghost Fox

The biting cold wind whistled past Jiuyuan City.

Fine snowflakes fluttered sparsely under the gloomy sky.

Li Yuechan stood atop a hill outside the city, quietly gazing at her hometown blanketed in snow, her eyes filled with nostalgia.

"...Back again, huh."

The young girl murmured softly to herself with a sigh.

Unlike the warm, blazing summer in the remote Ark of the South, the northern land was now facing a harsh winter with cold winds and heavy snow.

Jiuyuan City, once an obscure and remote village under the rule of the Refinement Demon Sect, remained a closed, dilapidated small town even after the sect's downfall.

Outside, the world was in turmoil, and undercurrents surged in the Cultivation World, but none of that mattered here.

The villagers of Jiuyuan City continued their daily lives with little disturbance.

The crumbling city walls were marked with the traces of time.

The impoverished countryside didn't even have the funds to repair the small earthen walls.