White Jade Capital's Jade Cloud Tower, Town Mountain Palace's Smoke and Glow Cave.
There was a cultivator with the appearance of a young man. Thin and gaunt, with sunken cheeks, he wore a grave expression, clearly burdened by heavy thoughts.
Sitting cross-legged atop the mountain, he lowered his head to examine a long clay tablet. A prophecy had been written upon it as though each character had been hammered in with an iron nail.
The flesh of all ten of his fingers had been mangled beyond recognition.
It truly was nails driven into the board in the most literal sense.
That was because he had just obtained an exceedingly strange divination. Even the oracle text was impossible to judge as auspicious or ominous.
Only after the Dao had declined for three hundred years would this lord arise.
Unfortunately, after several arduous attempts at deduction, he simply could not replace the word "this" with any surname.
So who was this person? What was his surname and given name? Who had he been in a previous life? Which Dao lineage would he belong to? When would he emerge into the world? Would he be a demon person at the beginning of a Chaotic World, or a remarkable figure like one who appeared at the founding of a dynasty?
Did this mean that the Azure Sky World, peaceful for so long, was about to undergo a transformation unseen in ten thousand years, with chaos destined to erupt everywhere, and that this person would emerge five hundred years hence? Or would five hundred years of chaos engulf the world precisely because of this person's appearance?
Was he the Dao Ancestor's Final Disciple, the one with the Daoist name Shan Qing? In that case, had Lu Chen long prepared for rain before the storm, with