Families Across the Mortal World Sought Opportunities, While Jiang Sheng Battled the Taiyin Star Alone

Since the First Year of the Sky Shattering, the Taiyin Star of Xuanhuang World had grown ever dimmer.

Over the following twenty-odd years, when the human race of Xuanhuang World looked up at the sky, all they could see was a Taiyin Star that had become increasingly dim.

Though it still gave off a silvery glow, it seemed shrouded in hazy mist.

In truth, this was because the Taiyin Star's power was weakening by the day, while the foul immortal spiritual qi and Heavenly Demons born of the Taiyin origin upon it were growing ever more numerous.

As one waned and the other waxed, the immortal spiritual qi and Taiyin chill upon the Taiyin Star naturally struggled to endure, while the demonic qi of the Heavenly Demons grew increasingly abundant, eventually creating the sight of hazy mist enveloping the silver radiance.

The so-called Tainted Moon was the sight of demonic qi blotting out the heavens, formed when the will of heaven and earth controlled the Taiyin Star to strike back against the Heavenly Demons, and the Heavenly Demons stirred up their demonic qi to contend against it.

The will of heaven and earth in Xuanhuang World was merely weakened, not asleep. Thus, after sensing the Taiyin Star's corruption, it had also controlled the Taiyin Star to gather strength and launch a counterattack.

This caused the Taiyin Star to appear faint and dim for most of every year, yet for two or three months, its light and corruption would both grow powerful enough to stir the tides and drive demons ever more mad, thereby forming the Tainted Moon Demon Tide in the mortal world.

And now, without a sound, the surging foul demonic qi gathered upon the Taiyin Star shattered and vanished like a bubble.

Thus, sword radiance shot into the