The setting sun receded, and the vast sky was eroded by darkness; the clear brilliance of the full moon cascaded like a waterfall upon the world.
Several figures stood suspended in the void beneath the night sky.
All of them wore uniform white robes with wide sleeves and narrow collars, adorned with embroidered Strange Beasts such as the Bai Ze and the legendary Pixiu, their divine and mystical patterns faintly glowing with a pale golden light.
Among them was a woman at the fore.
She was not dressed in white but in a black gown, the supple hem of her silk dress fluttering in the night wind, faintly outlining her curvaceous figure. Her black hair was swept up into a bun, adorned with a hairpin embedded with a red pearl; the tips of her eyebrows slightly upturned, her clear eyes revealed a cunning charm that could captivate souls.
Beneath these figures was a valley engulfed in dense fog.