Forty miles west of Shattered Glacier Valley, where the subterranean glacial river finally spit its freezing black waters out into a desolate gorge of jagged shale, four half-drowned, blood-soaked figures dragged themselves onto the rocky bank.
It was Flame King Feng Xiao, Corbin, Sea Devil Long Chen, and Soul Eater Qin Wu.
All four Peak Martial Kings looked as though they had been chewed up and spat out by an ancient abyssal beast.
Long Chen's coral-scale chest armor was caved in from General Bao's halberd; Qin Wu's left arm hung limp and dislocated at his side; Corbin's black greatsword was notched in three places and his System Point reserve had dropped below three thousand from keeping them alive in the freezing underground rapids; and worst of all was Feng Xiao.
