Nearly a year ago, while preparing for his training in the Mirage Thunder Swamp, Chen Xuan encountered Wu Feng and Wu Ruocheng while purchasing materials in Cliff City. At the time, he had overheard two Golden Core cultivators discussing how Wu Feng and her master, Gu Chenxiao, had defied the natural order by bearing a half-human, half-demon child—Wu Ruocheng—and claimed this act would hasten the arrival of a great celestial catastrophe.
Later, Wu Ruocheng triggered the power of the Reverse Light Butterfly, causing her to be born five years ahead of schedule; this event, too, may have been a catalyst for the impending catastrophe.
However, no matter how he looked at it, Chen Xuan could not link the prophecy made by Lu Xu, the third of the Eight Oddities of the Water Mirror, on the night of the Star Rain Festival, to the mother-daughter duo of Fairy Wu Feng and Wu Ruocheng. At the time, Chen Xuan’s own interpretation of that poem sounded more like the melancholy musings of a scholar. How, then, did Sikong Zhu, the sect leader of Yuanxia Mountain, deduce that the pair was accelerating the arrival of the great celestial catastrophe? Unless, of course, Sikong Zhu had questioned Lu Xu afterward, or certain celestial omens had appeared in the months since.
Chapter 2332