Chapter 0
Prologue
[Ten-mile-radius Blazing Hellfire]
An absolute forbidden magic that burns the caster’s physical body, turning a ten-mile radius into an intense fire.
The fiery terror unleashed by the Ten-mile Blazing Hell persists for a century, scorching all within its reach.
The fiery vines, known as infernal karma, engulf the surroundings within ten miles, destroying anyone trying to hide or escape by wrapping around them and turning them to ashes.
The sound of footsteps echoed as Sidong the mage, who had been living in the imperial palace bowed to the spirit.
The spirit slowly lifted the mage to his feet.
The clouds began to cover the clear sky. An ominous energy began to rise somewhere, making people shudder as they adjusted their clothes.
The emperor, playing with the newly brought young concubine, suddenly looked up at the sky during a boat outing in his hexagonal pavilion.
The Empress Dowager, who had wielded power over the concubines at the banquet at the Hexagonal Pavilion, also narrowed her eyes at the sinister aura that started to rise.
Thud.
For a moment, the palace was surrounded by silence.
Then, with a deafening noise, the ground cracked, and from the fissures, molten lava from the hell of torment spewed out fiercely.
The beautiful pavilions were suddenly engulfed in flames in an instant.
The Emperor began to shake with fear, and the rest of the concubine screamed, pleading for their life.
The emperor, stepping out in his boat, climbed to the edge of the pond, looking around his surroundings that turned into a complete hell.
Everything around was engulfed in flames.
He, gasping for breath, started to flee.
While the concubine’s cries for help were drowned out by a pond of burning mud.
The ground shook horribly, and continued to crack.
As much as he wanted to believe that this was all just an ominous nightmare, he froze in his tracks when he saw a woman screaming as she ran out of the place while her body is on fire.
“Mother…!”
The court ladies and attendants threw water on her, but the flames only grew stronger.
“Tao-young… Tao-young…” he heard a voice pleading, but he couldn’t reach her.
The horrific screams erupted, and it was a scene of complete hell.
“…….”
A spirit.
My spirit.
.
There was a man wailing anguishedly before the spirit, whose eyelids had been lifted to form a flaming lotus flower.
“Spirit, I can’t let you go like this.”
He let the flaming spirit’s shoulders lean against me.
The deterioration of hell clung to his body, but he didn’t care.
“All this time, I have cared only for you. I have desired nothing but your happiness, and if all you have left is bitter resentment and pain…….”
A chilling voice crept into his ears.
“Let us go to hell together.”
It burns.
Everything burns.
“If I meet you in the next life, I will never hesitate to take your hand.”