Lu Qing looked toward the heavens.
The sky was clear and bright. Strands of Pure Qi, incomparably limpid and spiritual, gathered within and around the Daoist Dojo, washing away the turbid air of the mortal world.
Yet the Merit Golden Cloud before him, held in his hand, seemed to differ ever so slightly from the Merit Auspicious Cloud Lu Qing had encountered in that Black Tortoise Minor Realm.
"Heaven's Will has ordained it so. If this is because of that matter, then that White-Haired Ghost Child of the Nine-Ghost Demonic Way must hold considerable weight on the Demonic Path's side in the future. Otherwise, this faint trace of Heaven's Will would not have appeared."
Even that was Lu Qing's conservative estimation.
"Surely he cannot be some Son of Providence from the Demonic Path."
What ordinary demonic genius or monstrous talent could draw forth a Merit Golden Cloud?
The Demonic Path, too, was born from the Dao.
Heaven's Way and Heaven's Will were utterly impartial. They would bring down Heavenly Punishment for the deeds of the Demonic Path, but they would not deliberately target any single demonic cultivator.
In Lu Qing's view, Heaven's Will was lofty and unfathomable. The cause that had dragged on from the Primordial Era to the present, and given rise to Heavenly Punishment and Heavenly Retribution, lay in the demonic calamity of the Primordial Era.
Where there was cause, there was effect. Heaven's Way followed the same principle.
Then the cause and effect surrounding this White-Haired Ghost Child seemed quite weighty indeed.
"Nine Ghosts... To raise nine ghosts, there will surely be no shortage of great disturbances. I just wonder where he went to raise those nine ghosts."
Several names surfaced in Lu Qing's Spirit Platform, but the Nine Heavens and Earth Continent were vast, and disasters