Lu Hua gazed at the young man in the courtyard. He quietly raised his head to look at the bright moon hanging high in the azure sky.
The moon was only half full, yet its light made the courtyard seem colder, adding a sharper chill.
It also made the young man seem all the more otherworldly.
A thought suddenly stirred in Lu Hua's mind: the Three Truths Sect's teaching of the "Fate Star descending into the world."
Whenever a Fate Star descended, a great calamity followed. When heaven revealed its killing intent, stars shifted and constellations changed. When earth revealed its killing intent, dragons and serpents rose from the land.
In years past, Patriarch Lu Chen of the Three Truths Sect had been one such Fate Star. In his lifetime, the world had been united, Heaven Gate had opened wide, and the patriarch had ascended.
That age had also brought forth talents beyond compare: the Demon Master, the empress, and Lu Yu.
By the Three Truths patriarchs' calculations, the Purple Star had now completed one full cycle—three thousand years.
And now, a new Fate Star was about to descend. The gate of the Heavenly Way would open once more.
This age would offer another chance at ascension.
The Three Truths Sect had inherited the legacy of Patriarch Lu Chen and Lu Yu. Through the rise and fall of dynasty after dynasty, it had flourished without decline for three full millennia.
Now that the calamity had arrived, its elders had once again begun roaming the world and taking disciples far and wide.
That was how Lu Hua had come to join the Three Truths Sect.
In all the world, only the Three Truths Lineage of Mount Zhongnan could stand on equal footing with the Academy.
A thousand years ago, the Master