Prologue (1/2)
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Prologue
TianWei Palace, the 8th Year after Dynasty of Mighty Qi has ruled the realm of human.
Astral Guru Zhao ChuQi looked up vacuously at the unusual phenomenon, dazed.
As if the snowy sky was torn to a colossal opening: colorful lights twisting, turning in it, constantly gathering up in the middle that it would collapse in another second.
The flunkey behind Astral Guru was also staring at the enormous gap in bafflement– it looks like a giant wound in the sky, he mumbled: ”Master, is the sky… falling?”
”The sky… couldn't!”
Astral Guru was quavering, he had no idea what had happened, but there must be something exceptional judging at the scale.
Just as he finished his words, suddenly, a loud noise blasted into the air as if a symphony of trillions of bells. The gap in the sky changed into a thick, dense dark red. One of the scarlet rays plunged from the gap towards the furthest end of the horizon, though it feels right before the eyes.
Astral Guru Zhao ChuQi gawked at the extraordinary phenomenon in the sky, petrified.
Right after, another round of rumbling came again from the sky. Now the gap changed into dark orange, with one of them shooting down again. If the first rumble woke every resident on the ground, the second rammed everyone onto their knees, begging, making kowtow towards the sky nonstop in terror.
At once, people flooded into the front of every house in the Mighty Qi capital– be it in the elite compound or on the narrowest alley, overwhelmed in horror.
In another eruption from above, the blast woke up a famished man at death's door. He lay on his stomach by the high walls of a backyard, miserably waiting for the leftovers thrown out by the slave in the house to survive. However, this moment never came but the astonis.h.i.+ng incident did.
The famish man gathered up his energy out-of-no-where and wobbled up on his feet, his clothes are ragged, his ribs protrude from his gaunt, emaciated chest, as if the dried branches in a blizzard.
”The world is doomed!”
The peris.h.i.+ng man roared hysterically with every last energy in his body. A blinding emerald ray of light shone on the land. Behind him, the corpses were buried under the snow, forming a long, long line along the base of the wall.
On the other side of the wall, the fur-coat-clad rich men went into their backyard, guarded by their slaves. Performing kowtow towards the unusual sight, they shouted: ”Auspicious sign from G.o.d!”
Listening to the voices in the backyard, the peris.h.i.+ng man broke out another wrathful roar.
”The world is doomed!!”
The other famish men who were lying around at the base of wall struggled to stand up after hearing his bellowing. Raising their hands up towards the sky, they screamed hysterically: ”The world is doomed!!!”
Their voices ama.s.sed, forming a raging stream of anger, charging towards the end of the street. Yet another blast came from above and swallowed those bellowing up. A squad of royal guards came. Golden armored, they beat those bellowing famish men to the ground until they couldn't get up again. They are no different than the snowflakes tumbling in this extraordinary incident—recedes into silence once they fell aground.
No one cares what happened to these lives by the road, what they saw, is the change of the sky, the ceaseless, deafening rumble and the streaks of light that fell from the sky one after another.
”Seven……Eight……Nine……” Astral Guru stared into the sky, murmured ”What does this mean?”
”Master!!”
A crisp voice came from afar, a flunkey rushed to his feet in panic: ”Master, there's something weird at the Sky Link!”
Astral Guru tensed up, rolled his robe and raced towards the Sky Link.
Albeit his high age, Astral Guru is fit. He ran non-stop towards the base of Sky Link that was built into the clouds, in a glance, he could see lights flickering on top of the obelisk. Like colorful liquid that flows, these lights gathered from above down to the Sky Link Rock and slowly condensed into several words ”Decree from Sky G.o.d: rebelling Star Lords, eluded to world, seek and slay the reincarnated!”
Astral Guru's face turned green. He immediately looked further away into the horizon; the seven colored rays are still glowing across the sky.
Just as Astral Guru was rus.h.i.+ng to inform the Emperor of Mighty Qi, another explosion came from the sky. A golden ray shone from the gap in the sky right into the royal palace, followed by another string of words condensing onto the Sky Link Rock: ”Reborn fairy, await timing, attainment achieved, slay the rebel!”
Astral Guru was solemn as he stated slowly: ”b.l.o.o.d.y rain from above!” He adjusted his hat, ordered: ”Send the words: I'll be in the palace to notify His Majesty!”
As the guru set out to the palace, all the Four Gates and Nine Doors of the palace were all opened, an 8-manned litter hurried into the palace. Moments later, more than ten riders left the palace with emergency token, pelted away in different directions.
In the south-western City of Feng,, Moon Purge Clan, Lee family.
”Pus.h.!.+ Push harder!”
Nanny Wen was sweating, holding Madam Xie's legs while she raised her head and shouted.
Madam Xie was bathing in her sweat and as pale as piece of paper, she was panting heavily, her chest went up and down—she ground her teeth, growling.