Nine Netherworld Crow!
Su Yi narrowed his eyes.
This was an ominous bird in the Netherworld, one that made people pale at its very mention. Whenever it appeared, it meant drastic upheaval and calamity were about to erupt.
"In the ancestral teachings passed down through generations of my Cui Family, there is a specific warning: if the Nine Netherworld Crow appears before the once-in-a-thousand-years Ten Thousand Lanterns Festival arrives, it means that when the festival truly comes, Violet Luo City will suffer an incomparably terrifying onslaught."
Cui Chang'an's expression was grave, and unconcealed worry filled his brows. "When that time comes, all manner of strange and evil forces lying dormant in the world will burst forth from the earth and lay siege to Violet Luo City!"
The Netherworld had never been an age of peace.
On the contrary, across this vast, boundless world, vicious and perilous places were too numerous to count.
Likewise, the once-in-a-thousand-years Ten Thousand Lanterns Festival was no festive celebration.
On the contrary, when that day arrived, the Netherworld's source power would be obscured by a strange, ominous force. Every corner of the world would sink into darkness like an eternal night, and all kinds of evil, bizarre powers would emerge throughout the Netherworld.
When the time came, the great orthodoxies of the world would all need to kindle Great Dao Heavenly Lanterns to dispel evil, illuminate the night, and prevent themselves from being invaded by the power of evil calamities.
That was the so-called Ten Thousand Lanterns Festival—its purpose was to eliminate calamity!
And for the Cui Family, this Ten Thousand Lanterns Festival was destined to be unlike any before it.
Because the Nine Netherworld Crow had appeared again. Whenever this ominous bird appeared, it meant that when the Ten Thousand Lanterns Festival arrived, the evil