Great Yan Capital.
Wearing a purple-gold crown, the Golden Crow Imperial Preceptor stood with hands clasped behind the back atop Great Yan's highest watchtower, gazing into the night sky.
"Rumble..."
A tremendous roar exploded in the void. The nine-colored divine radiance lingering over the river of stars actually transformed into a bolt of nine-colored divine thunder and struck down from the void.
In an instant, heaven and earth swung from night to day, and the ground trembled violently.
Yet the moment the nine-colored divine thunder touched the earth and its buildings, it caused no destruction.
A short while later.
The night sky, previously rife with strange phenomena, returned to calm. Darkness enveloped everything once more, as though nothing had happened.
Except that the nine-colored divine thunder amid the river of stars had suddenly vanished without a trace.
Trembling, the Golden Crow Imperial Preceptor slowly descended from the watchtower and spoke in an excited voice.
"A heavenly omen! A divine physique is about to descend upon our Great Yan!"
With those words, the excited Golden Crow Imperial Preceptor flashed away like a shooting star, arriving in the imperial palace in an instant.
Elsewhere, in the Great Dao Sect not far from the Nameless Temple, a middle-aged man with gray-white hair stared into the void with a dark gaze.
Behind him stood a group of elders wearing the Great Dao Sect's robes. Every face was solemn, and a heavy tension hung in the air.
"Sect Patriarch, have you divined anything from tonight's stars?"
The speaker was Cloud Mirror Daoist, the Great Dao Sect's sect master and its foremost authority.
The man he addressed as his senior brother was Azure Dragon Daoist, the strongest fighter in the Great Dao Sect.
Azure Dragon Daoist was the founding patriarch of the Great Dao Sect. He