"I can't really explain it clearly."
Su Hua sat on a chair, one hand supporting her head, the other holding a wine cup, as if reminiscing about something. She said, "The last time I saw Yeye, she said something to me. She said something bad was going to happen..."
"Something bad?"
Qian Shan was puzzled and asked, "What kind of bad thing?"
"Yeye didn't say."
"Why would Yeye say such a thing out of the blue?"
"Ever since Yeye awakened, she's no longer the little girl she used to be. What she awakened to, what she inherited, what heavenly secrets she learned... I'm afraid only she herself knows."
"Heavenly secrets?"
"Yes, heavenly secrets."
Su Hua frowned and murmured, "Don't doubt it. The Yeye of today is absolutely beyond the imagination of you and me."
"This..." Qian Shan found it somewhat difficult to comprehend. What exactly did Su Hua mean by 'beyond imagination'?
Su Hua drained her cup of wine again, then stood up. Gazing through the clear, cloudless sky within the cave dwelling at the sky outside, she murmured, "This World won't be peaceful for much longer...
Those who should emerge, and those who shouldn't, have all emerged. It's getting livelier and livelier...
And more and more chaotic."
Qian Shan also knew that a major event was about to occur in This World.
Moreover, she knew that this so-called major event was none other than the imminent manifestation of Wu Dao Mountain in This World.
She just didn't know what the manifestation of Wu Dao Mountain meant for the Present-Ancient Era.
When she asked, Su Hua responded thus:
"Wu Dao Mountain contains far, far too many unfathomable heavenly secrets, as well as numerous earth-shattering mysteries. It is not only the root of Original Sin but also the beginning of calamity and the start of a curse. If you ask what the manifestation of Wu Dao Mountain means for the Present-Ancient Era... I think no one can answer that question, because the very existence of Wu Dao Mountain is the greatest variable between Heaven and Earth."
Having said this, Su Hua seemed to remember something else. She shook her head slightly and said, "No, not between Heaven and Earth. Perhaps beyond Heaven and Earth."
"Beyond Heaven and Earth?"
"Yes, beyond Heaven and Earth. Beyond the heavens themselves."
"Young Lady, are you saying Wu Dao Mountain has already transcended Heaven and Earth? If that's truly the case, then why would it manifest in This World?"
"Yes... if Wu Dao Mountain truly exists beyond the heavens, why would it manifest in This World?"
Su Hua did not answer Qian Shan's confusion. Instead, she spoke to herself, "Could it be related to him?"
Although Su Hua didn't specify, Qian Shan knew that the 'him' she referred to was likely Gu Qingfeng. She said, "Young Lady, I remember you saying that the manifestation of Wu Dao Mountain might be a death tribulation for Gu Qingfeng. When the time comes, the Three Thousand Great Daos will spare no effort to seize this opportunity to completely erase him from Heaven and Earth."
"Not just the Three Thousand Great Daos. I'm afraid the Heavens themselves think the same. Everyone in Heaven and Earth with karmic ties to the Wu Dao Era does not wish for Gu Qingfeng to live. Even those so-called Wu Dao individuals are no exception."
"I can understand why the Three Thousand Great Daos want to erase Gu Qingfeng. But why do those connected to the Wu Dao Era, and those so-called Wu Dao individuals, also want to erase him?"
"Because they all want to end this."
"Will erasing Gu Qingfeng end it all?"
"I don't know. No one knows for sure. But I think none of them will give up this chance. They'd rather kill wrongly than let him go. After all, Gu Qingfeng fused with a drop of the Blood of Original Sin. He is a thoroughbred Original Sin individual, and he gestated the 'All Beings' Floating Slaughter, Myriad Forms Pay Homage'—the ultimate creation of the Human Dao."
At this point, Su Hua let out a soft, sorrowful sigh. "His existence is an immense threat to Heaven and Earth. They won't let him live. They dare not let him live...
They are also afraid of him living..."
"Young Lady, I want to ask you a question I shouldn't ask. If Wu Dao Mountain manifests and they truly move against Gu Qingfeng... what will you do?"
Su Hua shook her head. She hadn't thought about this question, didn't dare to think about it, and had no idea what to do.
"And if Gu Qingfeng is truly erased from Heaven and Earth... what then?"
Su Hua shook her head again. She hadn't thought about this question either, similarly didn't dare to, similarly had no idea what to do or where to go.
"Sigh..." Qian Shan also sighed.
"I wonder when Sister Nameless will come. If she comes, that would be good..."
Eternal Nameless.
From the heavens above to the earth below, from ancient times to the present, omniscient.
Hailed as the incarnation of Karma, also revered as the Messenger of Fate, and bearing the ancient title of Old Man of Heavenly Secrets.
Elusive, without fixed abode, with a fleeting whereabouts. She roams Heaven and Earth year after year, only aiding those destined for her help.
"Young Lady, if Eternal Nameless truly descends upon This World, are you sure you would dare to ask her these questions?"
Qian Shan's words truly stumped Su Hua. She also didn't know if she would dare to ask Eternal Nameless these questions should she descend. It wasn't that she didn't want to know the answers, but that she feared knowing them.
Su Hua said no more, only drinking wine incessantly.
She wanted to get drunk.
After drunkenness, these troubles would be gone.
However.
Right at that moment, suddenly, the cave dwelling inexplicably underwent an abnormal change, followed by a violent tremor.
Any cave dwelling exists by relying on the laws of space, and the cave dwelling Su Hua created was no exception. For the cave dwelling to tremble now meant only one possibility: the space outside had been disturbed. In other words, the world outside had been disturbed, and not by a small disturbance at that.
Without hesitation.
Su Hua and Qian Shan rushed out of the cave dwelling the moment the tremor began, arriving in the outside world.
At this moment.
It was noon, with the scorching sun high in the sky.
On the surface, nothing unusual seemed to have happened.
But that was only on the surface.
Both Su Hua and Qian Shan could sense that the spatial fabric of the world was extremely unstable at this moment, as if affected by something.
What was going on?
Could it be another heavenly omen?
Hard to say.
Because when Shi Tian, Shangguan Yu, and even Ouyang Ye emerged before, there had been heavenly omens. However, the omens they caused did not disturb the spatial fabric of This World.
What on earth was the reason?
Just as Su Hua was puzzling over this, BOOM!
A thunderclap exploded, shaking the heavens until dark clouds rolled and making the earth tremble continuously.
BOOM!
—CRACK!
Another thunderclap exploded.
The sun hanging in the sky vanished without a trace in the blink of an eye. Immediately after, day suddenly turned to night.
Simultaneously.
A full moon appeared.
But it was a blood-red full moon.
The crimson moonlight enveloped the entire world. Looking out, it seemed as if the sky was filled with bloody light.
"How could this be?
What is this?"
Qian Shan was greatly alarmed. She had never seen such a bizarre situation. Not only had day turned to night, but even the full moon had turned blood-red.
"The great sun vanishes, day turns to night, the night moon stained with blood..." Su Hua's face, one that could topple cities and kingdoms, turned deathly pale. As if remembering something, she exclaimed in horror, "The calamity star... the calamity star is about to emerge..."