Chapter 1
Slice—!
With a dull thud, a severed head fell to the ground.
A man with jet-black hair exhaled heavily, his eyes fixed on the tattoo of the character Blood etched onto the corpse’s forehead.
It was the mark worn only by the highest-ranking Blood Disciples of the Central Blood Sect—Zhongyuan's most formidable martial order.
The man slowly turned his back on the body.
Without a word, he began to ascend the snow-covered mountain, cloaked in a thick, suffocating fog.
His steps staggered. His arms trembled violently.
Anyone watching would’ve seen clearly—this was a man at the edge of collapse.
And still, he climbed.
Even if death awaited him at the summit, he had to go.
He didn’t stop walking.
Half a gyeong, a quarter-hour, half an hour... a full hour... two.