As though it were nature's most beautiful creation!
"Why did he become so despairing when he heard the name Tianjiu?" Weisheng Moran asked softly.
"Because he knew the truth about Tianjiu," Li Tianming said.
"What truth..." Weisheng Moran froze for a moment.
Li Tianming "pinched" her up and placed her on his palm. Looking at the thumb-sized girl before him, he spoke in a low, serious voice, "Tianjiu is the progenitor of the Huan Tian God Clan. She is the origin point of this entire god clan!"
"I know that," Weisheng Moran said gently.
"Then do you know how she created the Huan Tian God Clan?" Li Tianming asked.
"I don't..."
"She directly divided her own body, splitting herself into the first ten pairs of Huan Tian God Clan members, who then slowly passed on their bloodlines and multiplied until they reached their present scale." Li Tianming said. Even with his current knowledge, this legend was unimaginable. Such tales were now spread throughout the Upper Star Ruins; Silver Dust had long since heard them clearly and told Li Tianming all about them.
"One person split into ten pairs of people? Then did she perish afterward, or did she remain alive by controlling the bodies of those ten pairs?" Weisheng Moran asked curiously.
"She perished, vanishing completely into the long river of Upper Star Ruins history," Li Tianming said.
"Oh, so that is why there is talk of Tianjiu being reborn?" Weisheng Moran asked quietly.
"Right!" Li Tianming drew a faint breath and said solemnly, "The key lies here! On the day Tianjiu divided herself, she left behind a sentence!"
"What sentence?"
"One person becomes a clan, multiplying without end; on the day of ascension, Tianjiu returns." Li Tianming enunciated the fourteen words one by one.
"So it means that her