The great sun falls, yin and yang invert, a blood moon hangs in the sky, the Calamity Star descends upon the world.
This was an ancient legend.
The fall of the great sun represented the scattering of light.
The inversion of yin and yang represented the descent of darkness.
The blood moon in the sky represented the descent of the Calamity Star.
And the descent of the Calamity Star represented disaster.
Qian Shan had also heard of this ancient legend.
But she had only heard of it.
She had never seen it before. This was the first time, and her heart was filled with panic and disbelief as she asked, "Miss, are you sure this Heaven Omen signifies the descent of the Calamity Star?"
Su Hua gazed at the blood moon in the night sky and nodded heavily. "Correct. This Heaven Omen is precisely the descent of the Calamity Star. Although I have never witnessed it before, I have read many such records in ancient texts. The Heaven Omen recorded in the texts is almost identical to what is happening now."
"Does the descent of the Calamity Star necessarily mean disaster will befall us?"
"It absolutely will."
Su Hua responded with certainty, "This is the inevitability of karmic cycles, a predestined arrangement. The fortunes of the Heavenly Dao have always been conserved. Where there is yin, there is yang; where there is prosperity, there is decline. With my existence as the Person of True Destiny responding to tribulations in this Present Era, a Calamity Star of the Present Era is bound to be born in accordance with fate."
"Who is this Calamity Star born in accordance with fate in the Present Era? What kind of person is it? What kind of disaster will it bring?"
Su Hua shook her head; she wasn't sure either.
Boom! Crack!
The blood-colored full moon in the night sky radiated an eerie crimson light, enveloping this world. The sky-obscuring dark clouds churned and rolled, appearing like a roaring sea of blood under the glow of the blood moon, instilling fear in all who saw it.
Suddenly.
A crimson beam of light shot up into the heavens from this world, piercing through the churning dark clouds to align with the blood moon in the night sky.
Su Hua focused her gaze, her beautiful eyes widening in shock and suspicion. "The location of the crimson beam seems to be... the Shangqing Sect? Could it be that the descending Calamity Star is a member of the Shangqing Sect? Who could it be?"
She didn't know.
Without hesitation, Su Hua immediately rushed towards the Shangqing Sect.
At this very moment.
The Weiyang Grand Domain was in utter chaos.
Spirit beasts and immortal birds were fleeing in all directions as if frightened, and the cultivators of Weiyang Grand Domain were also scattering in panic.
The Shangqing Sect was even more chaotic. The disciples within the sect were all on high alert, their bodies enveloped in shimmering light, spiritual power erupting from them as they gripped their flying swords, ready to act.
Elder Zhen Ting Xianshi, Elder Zhen Yang Jiuxian, and other elders of the Shangqing Sect had all emerged, their faces filled with terror and astonishment. They stared wide-eyed at the crimson beam of light corresponding with the blood moon, as if unable to believe it.
And beneath the crimson beam stood a young girl.
The girl wore a blue-green dress, her three thousand strands of azure-blue hair cascading down. Her appearance was delicate and lovely. Yet, it was precisely this adorable girl who was now enveloped by the crimson beam. She looked utterly helpless and terrified, her lovely face ashen, her once lively eyes now filled with sheer panic.
Almost everyone in the Shangqing Sect knew her.
Little Jin'er.
A little girl beloved by all. Ever since she was sent to the Shangqing Sect by Immortal Su Hua twenty years ago, the little girl had stayed to cultivate there. She was clever and quick-witted, obedient and adorable, pure and innocent, and very popular. She held no defenses against anyone, her heart so kind that she would even consider an ant her good friend. Her purity, her kindness, had moved many. Not just within the Shangqing Sect, but cultivators throughout the entire Weiyang Grand Domain particularly adored this little girl.
The little girl's identity was special. What kind of person she was, what her background was, no one knew.
But her older brother and sister were famous throughout the world, known to all.
Her sister was the renowned Mystic Maiden of the Nine Heavens, also the universally known Immortal Su Hua, and the Person of True Destiny of the Present Era.
She also had another sister: Ouyang Ye, the Princess of Nature, who had emerged only a few years prior.
And her Big Brother was the famously returned king, Lord Chixiao, Gu Tianlang.
Because of this.
Even if the little girl weren't obedient, adorable, pure, and innocent, but were instead willful and capricious, no one in the entire world would dare touch a single hair on her head.
In everyone's memory, over ten years ago, the little girl seemed to have gone into seclusion. Many found it strange at the time because, due to special reasons, the little girl was fundamentally unable to cultivate. She had no cultivation base whatsoever. Why would she suddenly enter seclusion for no reason?
The little girl said she came to the Shangqing Sect to cultivate to help her Big Brother.
Entering seclusion was also to help her Big Brother overcome a difficult hurdle.
Everyone knew the 'Big Brother' she referred to was Lord Chixiao. But as for what exactly she meant by 'helping Big Brother overcome a difficult hurdle,' no one knew.
However, the little girl was obedient and adorable. Whatever she said, no one would contradict her.
Perhaps too many events had occurred over the years: first the return of the former king, Lord Chixiao; then the emergence of the Female Sect Leader from seclusion; followed by the world's Little Tyrant Shi Tian, the world's leader, the Tai Chi Prodigy; and then the Princess of Nature, Ouyang Ye, emerging one after another. All this had made people forget that the Shangqing Sect once had such a pure and innocent little girl.
Just moments ago, when the world's space trembled.
When thunder exploded.
When dark clouds blotted out the sky, when day turned to night, when a blood-colored full moon appeared, everyone knew this Heaven Omen signaled the descent of the Calamity Star.
The descent of the Calamity Star represented the coming of disaster.
No one wished for disaster to befall them. So, when the Heaven Omen appeared, everyone waited for the so-called Calamity Star to descend. Once it descended, it had to be eradicated immediately, lest endless calamity ensue.
Just as everyone was guessing where the Calamity Star would descend and who it might be, a crimson beam of light shot straight into the heavens, resonating with the blood moon. But no one could have imagined that the source of this crimson beam was actually within the world's number one great sect, the Shangqing Sect. Even more unimaginable was that the one releasing such a crimson beam was the pure and innocent Little Jin'er.
Little Jin'er is the Calamity Star?
How could she possibly be the Calamity Star!
A little girl who couldn't bear to step on an ant, who treated butterflies as friends, flowers and grass as family—how could she be the Calamity Star?
Looking at Little Jin'er, now lost and helpless, panicked and terrified, everyone was dumbstruck. They couldn't believe this was real. None of them could understand how the kind-hearted Little Jin'er could possibly be the Calamity Star.
But disbelief was one thing.
Incomprehension was another.
No matter how much they disbelieved, no matter how much they couldn't understand, there was one fact everyone had to face: the crimson beam of light was unquestionably released by Little Jin'er. In other words, Little Jin'er truly was the Calamity Star representing disaster in the Present Era.
"She is the Calamity Star! This girl cannot be allowed to remain. She must be eradicated immediately!"
"Correct! The Calamity Star must be slain at once! Otherwise, the consequences will be endless!"
Elder Lei Ze and Elder Fu Rong of the Shangqing Sect stepped forward, angrily pointing at Little Jin'er within the crimson beam.
These two elders had suffered losses and lost face at the hands of Gu Qingfeng back in the Ancient Era. Furthermore, when Little Jin'er was at the Shangqing Sect, she often mentioned that Gu Qingfeng was her Big Brother. Naturally, the two elders held no fondness for her. Discovering that Little Jin'er was the Calamity Star, they didn't hesitate for a moment before stepping forward, preparing to strike her down.