The Six-Eyed Demon Lord struggled to pull his head out of the cliff face, coughed a few times, his face covered in dust, then came sidling up again with a cheeky grin. "Grandfather, your expression changes faster than the pages of a book. Just now, in front of the Devil Master, you were practically..."
"Shut up!"
The Sky-Eating Demon Venerable's face darkened. With a sweep of his sleeve, he knocked his oblivious grandson aside.
He sighed.
A trace of worry appeared in his eyes.
He finally understood why the Devil Master had reacted so strangely when he had said those things disparaging Li Xinge.
Those two were the same person all along!
Remembering how he repaid even the slightest grievance.
The Sky-Eating Demon Venerable truly wished he could slap himself twice.
Why did I have to run my damn mouth?
No.
I, Sky Eater, absolutely cannot sit here and wait to die.
Shenjing, the Stargazing Platform.
This was where the Great Zhou Imperial Family observed celestial phenomena and divined the flow of fortune.
The platform stood a thousand zhang tall, piercing the clouds. Cultivators from the Royal House's Astronomical Observatory were stationed there year-round, watching the slightest changes in the stars day and night.
At that moment, dozens of Astronomical Observatory cultivators lay prostrate on the Stargazing Platform, their faces deathly pale and their bodies trembling. They did not even dare raise their heads.
At the center of the Stargazing Platform, a bronze star chart roughly a zhang across floated in midair.
The star patterns on its surface had originally flowed with a gentle golden light, symbolizing the Great Zhou Imperial Family's unbroken fortune. Now, however, that golden light was rapidly dimming.
At the center of the chart seemed to lie a vast, fathomless starry sky, through which a