Before his voice had fully faded, Hu Qi's figure abruptly vanished, as if he had never been there at all.
Only a voice tinged with regret remained, reverberating through the area.
...
In the sky above, the lead-gray clouds that had scattered from the aftershocks of the battle began to converge once more.
Dreary, gray snowflakes drifted down from the heavens, blanketing the scarred and battered land in a layer of silvery down.
The blackened ground, fractured rocks, and crumbling ruins all blurred beneath the covering of snow.
Before long, on the vast, desolate, and previously empty plain...
...a dozen or so figures suddenly appeared.
These figures were clad in black robes, their appearances strange, and their bodies radiated an abnormally powerful aura.
They were the Food Masters from other regions of the Inner Earth World. The great disturbance here naturally couldn't escape their keen senses.
