The assassination of Elder Killer had already continued for four months.
Time in the land of Cangxia had also entered July.
To Wu Qi, this was nothing like the "July weather" of legend. These past days had actually begun to turn cold.
But most Ancient Method Cultivators had no concept of such things. Linghuang Island was an island far from the mainland and close to the equator; it had no distinction between the four seasons at all. They had only encountered the concept of "four seasons" in ancient books, as a supplement to the Five Elements theory.
The only one willing to discuss this topic with Wu Qi was Fan Zhongxing.
"After three consecutive months of torrential rain in March, April, and May, followed by a month of blazing sun in May, it suddenly started cooling down?" Wu Qi could not make sense of it. "Is this the mystery of yin and yang's transformations?"
—Without Taiyin, would the world become like this?
"I heard those Outer Dao Wanderers say it was due to some kind of 'gravitational change,' which caused these shifts. The axis of the earth suddenly lost Taiyin's pull and became unstable." Fan Zhongxing lay atop a dirt slope with a blade of grass between his teeth, watching the sky that had already turned pale. "The seasons have begun to fall into chaos. Perhaps after a while, they'll disappear completely."
"Disappear completely? Eternal spring?" Wu Qi laughed. "Following your Outer Dao theory, then how do you explain the heavy rains and cooling temperatures?"
"The cause of the rain is easy to explain. Elder Killer destroyed Taiyin, causing many of its fragments to become meteors and crash into the sea, evaporating vast amounts of water vapor that then rushed inland. In some inland regions without outward-flowing rivers, massive amounts