The far north has fallen! The Yeti has descended, and the Northern Bear Kingdom is stained with blood!

The night was deep.

Lin Yuan finished playing with the little fox and yawned contentedly.

However, the moment he stood up.

His brow furrowed slightly.

“Hmm?”

He could clearly feel it.

The Spiritual Qi that had been flowing smoothly between heaven and earth seemed to have developed a trace of extremely subtle, abnormal turbulence.

It felt as if a small pebble had been tossed into a calm pool of water.

Though the ripples were small, they were definitely there.

The source of this turbulence seemed to come from the Far North?

Lin Yuan looked up at the northern sky, a hint of contemplation flashing in his lazy eyes.

“Is it an aftereffect of the gate of the divine kingdom shattering?”

He quickly reached a conclusion.

After all, he had personally severed the connection between one world and another just yesterday.

It was only natural for an operation of this magnitude to have some lingering effects on the entire world's energy field.

Just like how a wound would throb for a few days after a major surgery.

“It'll resolve itself after a while.”

Lin Yuan curled his lip, not taking it to heart at all.

If the sky falls, the tall ones will hold it up.

Wasn't his grandfather, Lin Zhan, the tallest of them all?

Such a small matter wasn't for him to worry about.

Yawning, Lin Yuan ambled back to his bedroom, collapsed onto the soft bed, and fell fast asleep in seconds.

He slept soundly.

Unaware...

...that at the same time he rolled over to continue sleeping.

On the other side of the world.

North Bear Country.

The Far North, Frozen Pass.

This was North Bear Country's northernmost border, shrouded year-round in sub-zero temperatures reaching nearly a hundred degrees below and ceaseless blizzards.

The environment was so harsh it was considered a forbidden zone for life.

“Phew... damn this weather!”

A burly North Bear Country soldier wrapped in heavy winter gear exhaled a puff of white mist and cursed.

“Andrei, stop complaining! Stay sharp! This is the ‘Frozen Throat’; behind us lies the heart of our motherland!”

His captain, a brawny man with a scar on his face, scolded him in a low voice.

“Yes, Captain!”

The soldier named Andrei immediately straightened his back.

They were the “Icefield Wolf” Legion stationed here, every one of them a battle-hardened elite.

However, just then!

“Buzz—!!!!”

Without any warning!

In the dim sky above them, space suddenly distorted like a fragile mirror!

Then!

“Rip—!!!!”

A massive, pitch-black spatial rift emitting an aura of ominous chaos was forcibly torn open by a brutal force!

“What... what is that?!”

All the patrolling soldiers looked up in horror, staring blankly at the apocalyptic scene.

At that moment, their alarms let out an incredibly shrill and piercing shriek!

“Enemy attack! It's a spatial invasion!!”

The scarred captain was the first to react; his eyes nearly burst from their sockets as he let out a hysterical roar!

“Quick! Sound the maximum alert! Notify headquarters!!”

However, before his words could even land.

“Roar—!!!!”

A terrifying beast's roar, filled with tyranny and bloodlust, boomed from the massive spatial rift!

Then!

One after another, massive and hideous figures poured frantically out of the rift like dumplings into a pot!

These figures had human-like silhouettes, but their heights were generally between three to five meters!

Their bodies were covered in thick, white fur as long and sharp as steel needles!

They were muscular with blue faces and protruding fangs!

In their hands, they brandished massive bone clubs and stone axes polished from unknown beast bones!

Their auras were violent and bloodthirsty, each one comparable to a Martial Artist at the Early Stage of the Juyuan Realm!

Among them, there were even terrifying beings over ten meters tall with auras comparable to the Peak of the Origin Gathering Realm!

The prehistoric behemoths that existed only in North Bear Country's oldest myths—the Snow Fiends!

“Fire! Fire!!!”

The scarred captain's eyes were bloodshot as he roared frantically.

“Boom! Boom! Boom!”

Atop the pass, all the defensive artillery roared simultaneously!

Countless energy beams and physical shells formed a dense net of death, blanketing the Snow Fiends descending from the sky!

However, it was useless!

The ordinary artillery fire striking the Snow Fiends' thick fur only managed to kick up showers of sparks, unable to even breach their defense!

Only the powerful main cannons could barely inflict some damage on them!

“Roar!”

A Snow Fiend over five meters tall took a direct hit from an energy cannon, its side blown into a bloody mess!

But instead of dying, it became even more enraged!

Its crimson eyes locked onto the battery on the pass, and it then violently hurled the massive bone club in its hand!

“Whoosh!”

The bone club, like a shell fired from a gun, instantly crossed thousands of meters with a terrifying whistle that tore through the air!

“Boom—!!!!”

A thunderous explosion!

The massive battery that had just been pouring fire, along with dozens of soldiers around it, was smashed into a pulp by this single strike!

“No!!”

The scarred captain let out a desperate howl!

More and more Snow Fiends poured from the spatial rift, dense and overwhelming!

Like a white tide, they instantly submerged the entire pass!

Screams, roars, and explosions echoed across the icefield!

Blood dyed the pure white snow a piercing crimson!

In less than ten minutes.

The Frozen Pass, hailed as “unfallable,” had completely fallen!

Countless soldiers fought bloodily, only to be torn to pieces by the endless Snow Fiends in the end!

After slaying three Snow Fiends, the scarred captain was hammered into the ground by a ten-meter-tall Snow Fiend leader.

In the final moment before his consciousness faded.

Gazing at the spatial rift that continued to spew monsters, his eyes held only endless despair.

It's over.

North Bear Country... is finished!

...North Bear Country, Kremlin Palace.

Inside the supreme Command Center, the atmosphere was so oppressive it seemed to solidify.

Every face was deathly pale and filled with horror.

On the massive holographic screen before them, a hellish scene from the Far North border was being broadcast in real-time.

The “Frozen Pass,” which had stood for centuries and cost countless resources to build, was now a complete blood-red ruin.

Endless white behemoths poured like a tide from that shocking spatial rift, bypassing the pass and beginning a frantic advance toward the heart of North Bear Country!

Wherever they went, everything was destroyed!

The earth trembled under their iron hooves!

Glaciers cracked under their roars!

“The Icefield Wolf Legion... wiped out...”

An intelligence officer reported this brutally harsh fact in a trembling, soul-shattered voice.

“From the appearance of the spatial rift to the complete fall of the pass... it took nine minutes and thirty-seven seconds.”

“Hiss—!”

A chorus of sharp intakes of breath filled the Command Center.

Nine minutes and thirty-seven seconds!

A full ace legion composed entirely of elite Martial Artists! A super fortress claimed to be able to withstand a million-man army!

Just like that... gone?

“Bastard!!”

An angry roar, like that of a wounded lion, boomed through the hall!

The supreme leader of North Bear Country, a man known for his iron blood and toughness, slammed his fist onto the alloy command desk before him!

“Boom!”

The incredibly hard command desk was dented deeply by his punch!

“The Snow Fiend Tribe! These damn bastards! Weren't they Sealed in sub-space long ago?! Why have they suddenly appeared?!”

His eyes were bloodshot, his face a mask of unprecedented Rage and ferocity!

“Your Excellency Leader!”

An Old General with white hair and beard stepped forward, his expression grave to the extreme.

“According to the energy fluctuation analysis, the spatial node in the Far North seems to have been damaged by some external force, causing the Seal to loosen and allowing these Snow Fiends to seize the opportunity!”

“External force?”

The supreme leader's gaze instantly turned ice-cold.

“Investigate! Investigate for me! Even if you have to turn the entire planet upside down, find the mastermind behind this!!”

“Yes!”

“But now, the most important issue is!” The Old General pointed at the expanding “white plague” on the screen and said in a heavy voice, “We must stop them from continuing south at all costs!”

“Once this Snow Fiend army breaks through the second line of defense and enters our heartland, the consequences... will be unthinkable!”

It would be... a catastrophe of national subjugation and racial extinction!

The supreme leader's chest heaved violently.

After a long time.

He took a deep breath, forcibly suppressed the anger in his heart, and issued an order in a cold, resolute, and unquestionable tone.

“Pass down my orders!”

“North Bear Country is to enter a state of maximum war readiness!”

“Mobilize all reserve forces! Unseal all strategic weapons!”

“Furthermore...”

“Issue a global alert!”