With a single sword stroke, clarity and turbidity were cleanly divided.
At once, the raging wind and torrential rain filling the sky diminished by a third.
Wherever the Wielding Brush sword passed, within the pale Realm of Encirclement, a rich streak of ink suddenly spread outward. The ink followed the broad, sweeping blade, leaving behind lines of wild cursive in the void, bold and unrestrained.
In an instant, the flowing ink fell upon the page, forming two Emblem Characters that writhed restlessly like living creatures.
[Xun] and [Dui].
Xun below, Dui above. The two winding characters overlapped within the Realm of Encirclement, gradually becoming distinct. Yet amid the collision of history and the overlapping evolution of the past, they formed a new phenomenon.
Or rather, a disaster that had occurred countless times before...
—[Great Overcoming of Wind and Marsh]!
In an instant, the pale Realm of Encirclement began to hum. That sliver of pallor carrying the ink abruptly stretched outward, seemingly without end, merging into reality and shrouding the wilderness surrounding Tower City.
In the blink of an eye, amid the raging wind and torrential rain, a new storm and rainfall suddenly rose up. The two overlapped, covering Tower City. The Wielding Brush Blessing Chain [Heaven and Earth are Ruthless] combined the blessings of Celestial Origin, Ether, the Mirror System, and the Waste Ruins, encompassing Celestial Origin's control, Ether's insight and recording, the Mirror System's blend of illusion and reality, and the Waste Ruins' stability and brutality...
Its core principle was to create something from nothing. Through Tong Shan's knowledge and comprehension of natural disasters, it recreated and suppressed them—even controlled them! In the brief records of Ether's Heavenly Hearing branch, Xun was wind and Dui was marsh. When storms and floods overlapped, they became the raging wind and torrential