Tang Changsheng hesitated for a moment, and Lu Yuanzhen noticed. "What's on your mind?" Lu asked calmly. "No need to keep it bottled up."
"Disciple wanted to ask about the Heavenly Courts," Tang Changsheng said. "Why are there two in this world?"
Xin Chengying perked up at the question. He was plainly curious too. "Yes, Master, what happened? I've only heard that the Purple Dusk Heavenly Court is our enemy, and that it and the Eastern Flower Heavenly Court fight endlessly along their border."
"But apart from that, I've never seen any sign of the Purple Dusk Heavenly Court. If there weren't two Moonlights hanging in the sky, I'd almost think it was nothing but a legend!"
Lu Yuanzhen's expression shifted slightly. He rose, paced a couple of circuits, then sighed. "Originally, this world had only one Heavenly Court."
"What? Then where did the Purple Dusk Heavenly Court come from?" Xin Chengying asked in surprise.
"No one knows. Several thousand years ago, another bright moon suddenly appeared in the sky. After that, there was a Purple Dusk Heavenly Court."
As Lu Yuanzhen told it, the two Heavenly Courts had waged a war that shook the world. At the time, the Divine Way had ruled this world, but its power had steadily dwindled in the fighting against the Purple Dusk Heavenly Court. In the end, the Immortal Dao rose.
The two sides finally joined forces and established the Eastern Flower Heavenly Court, then continued the war against the Purple Dusk Heavenly Court.
"The fighting has never stopped. It simply hasn't reached this Central Land continent," Lu Yuanzhen said with a sigh. "Your cultivation is still weak, but once you reach the level of an Invisible True Person, the Heavenly Court will summon you to fight the Purple Dusk Heavenly Court in