144 Twelve Great Families (1/2)
”Father, look at the sky!” a child cried out while looking out of the window. The scene this child saw was being repeated an unknown amount of times throughout the entire world.
In the beginning, one star had started falling from the sky, but after a brief moment, more and more stars fell from the heavens, painting the entire night sky with beams of light as they descended towards the ground.
There were millions of stars in the skies, but that night, over half of them began collapsing and descending towards the earth.
Many of these stars burned up before they hit the ground, extinguished like dying lights in the sky, but a few landed with massive explosions on all the different continents.
If anyone was not awake at this point, the event certainly woke them. This phenomenon sent ripples of shock throughout the world; something like this had never before happened before, so many started making divinations about it.
Some were certain that this was a good omen that would spell the prosperity of their race.
Others were certain that a genius unlike any other had been born in the world, that the stars had displayed their complete and utter support for this genius by descending to the ground and welcoming his arrival.
Many different theories were being spread all over the different continents, but not a single person in the Vermilion Forest Kingdom noticed anything.
The phenomenon of falling stars began the moment the sword had swelled in size to kill off their remaining enemies, and ended the moment it returned to its normal appearance.
None of the people present had noticed anything or felt any changes, but this was not the case for the rest of the world.
In the center of the Chang'an continent, Lan sat outside a small shabby cabin located inside a luxurious yard within his mansion. Next to the cabin, a large lake flowed out of his mansion, which bordered the entire western side of the city. However, there was no sign of life within a kilometer radius of his mansion, indicating that the entirety of this area belonged to him, cut off from the rest of the city. The lake seemed to be the reason that the city had grown here in the first place, one and beginning from the riverbank before the cabin. The cabin itself seemed as if it had existed for a very, very long time in the same old spot. Perhaps it was older than even the city itself.
He had two cups in front of him, yet he was using only one of them, and no other guest was present.
Lan seemed to be in deep thought when a sigh escaped his lips. He looked into the sky and saw the first shooting star, after which the other stars started to fall rapidly.
His brows furrowed and his eyes focused. He lifted his hand and emptied the cup of wine he had in front of him and closed his eyes.
As to what he was doing, no one would know, yet moments after laughter rang through the entire courtyard.
”To think that that old Bai Tianyi has banded together with youngster Wei!” he said, laughing. ”I guess this means that only amusing things will happen in the future! I cannot wait to see it; I had even forgotten everything about old Tianyi. To think that fate has such unusual changes...”
He was laughing to himself while pouring another cup of wine, which he quickly emptied with a swig.
”I wonder how the descendants of those old goats will take this?” he wondered before he leaned back and continued to enjoy his wine.
At another place in the center of the continent was the Ouyang Family. The Ouyang Family was one of the oldest families on the entire continent; their history was ancient, dating back to when they were slaves to the primordial beasts, where the Ouyang family existed as one of the few families that fought against the Primordial Beasts.
They went through the annals of history with a spotless reputation, and their younger generations were always ranked as the true geniuses of the younger generations of the entire continent.
The Ouyang Family specialized in zithers, guqins, brushes, fans, and other artistic items for weapons. They were known to be elegant and refined, beautiful and outstanding.
It was precisely in this Ouyang Family that the Elders had scrambled to meet up, all of them wearing frightened expressions on their faces.
”It happened!” one of them exclaimed with shock. The others gave him a condemning look. It was apparently not his place to say so.
Understanding this, he bowed in apology and looked at the family patriarch, who was sitting still with closed eyes and his hands cupped in front of him.
When the elders finally turned silent, he opened his eyes, and instantly it was as if a heavy pressure had covered all of them.
”Our ancestor told us that our greatest enemy, the sword spirit Bai Tianyi, had been dealt with by them. But if one day the stars are falling, then it means that this vile spirit has been freed and is coming for revenge,” he said thoughtfully.
”The other eleven great families are on the other continents, so they cannot come right away to help us deal with Bai Tianyi.”
”We do not know who had the power to unleash him, nor do we know the current situation or exact location of the sword spirit, as the information has been lost throughout history, but we know that he was here on this continent.”
”This means that we are the vanguard of the twelve great families in the task of apprehending the immortal sword spirit.”
”I know that many of the other great families wish to subdue this vile sword and make it become a slave to their whims, but this sword is regarded as a vile and disgusting creature that will not pause at anything for its own benefit.”
”It will slaughter innocents and humans as well as beasts. Such mentality cannot be allowed to exist in our world; we have to eradicate it completely!”