The weather was clear, but the sun overhead relentlessly scorched the white soil of the Salt Alkali Plain.
The air twisted one's vision like a pair of pliers; wiping the sweat from one's brow, looking into the distance, everything seemed uncontrollably contorted.
The Salt Alkali Plain Lord stood up, supporting himself on his knees. The worry on his face did not disappear, but there was an undeniable joy in his eyes as well.
The divine message was heart-racing: Destruction was imminent!
Yet, delightfully, the deities had responded, which meant they had found a new reliance from their previously abandoned state.
Before him, a deity's stone statue with a woman's head and a serpent's body gazed down upon the Salt Alkali Plain Lord. Its long-uncleaned stony eyes were covered in spider webs, yet when he looked up, he felt as though its gaze bore a will, watching him.