"In short, you are qualified to receive my inheritance!"
Yuan Du Battle Venerate stepped forward twice. As he moved, the heavy scaled armor on his body softly scraped together, producing the pleasant, faint sound of metal lightly striking metal.
He came to the edge of the terrace and stood before the railing with his hands behind his back, gazing out at the calm, windless lake ahead as he slowly spoke.
"In those days, when I used strength to prove the Heavenly Dao, the entire starry sky submitted to me!"
"Coupled with the insights I had gained from ten thousand years of cultivation, my heart and mind surged, and in that moment of sudden enlightenment, I comprehended a divine ability."
"Over the following tens of thousands of years, I roamed the universe with this divine ability, and every enemy trembled and bowed before me."
"I named this divine ability: Falling Stars!"
As Yuan Du Battle Venerate spoke, the sunlight in the fair and beautiful sky rapidly dimmed, as though it feared some unknown thing and hid behind some unknown bank of clouds.
Countless motes of brilliant, multicolored light began to flicker in the sky, gradually becoming clearer and flourishing.
Stars appearing in a moonless or waning-moon night sky was common knowledge.
Their light was too faint, so stars could not be seen under a full moon, much less during the day or when the sun was out.
Yet at this moment, common sense had been overturned.
Every star in the resplendent river of stars before him shone so dazzlingly that they remained clearly visible even in broad daylight.
It was as though the land beneath them was still the same land and the sky above was still the same blue sky, yet both had been moved from their original space into