In the Outer Heavens, amidst the stars, within an unknown divine realm, a bright-eyed, fair-toothed young girl sat in a wheelchair. Her body, flawed from birth, had not brought her much distress.
Perhaps it was not that Peacock truly did not care, but that her identity as the Divine Maiden left her no time to dwell on such useless matters.
At the peak of the divine realm, Peacock sat quietly, her gaze fixed upon the starry sky ahead. The rise and fall of the mortal world all entered her eyes—one year, two years, ten years, a hundred years.
Behind Peacock, a man in white approached. His face remained as youthful as it had been a century ago, without the slightest change.
Young Master Xiaobai, an unparalleled prodigy who had once shaken the starry skies two hundred years ago, had vanished after his battle with the Lord of the Nether Hall. Only when the hundred clans plunged into chaos did he reappear in the mortal world.
"What are you looking at?"
Young Master Xiaobai followed the girl's gaze and asked.
"The mortal world."
Peacock replied.
"The mortal world stretches ten thousand zhang high. Even Buddhas and gods cannot see through it, so why seek trouble for yourself?" Young Master Xiaobai said calmly.
"Without personally experiencing the myriad facets of mortal life, one cannot truly transcend the mortal world. I cannot leave, so I can only watch from here," Peacock said softly.
"You are the Divine Maiden, so naturally you cannot casually enter the mortal world. Peacock, with your talent, you need not experience these things. The Divine Maiden is, after all, different from ordinary people."
Young Master Xiaobai withdrew his gaze and looked at the girl before him, his eyes carrying a trace of heartache as he spoke.
"The Divine Maiden