With a thunderous boom, the entire sky began to change color.
A vast demonic aura shot into the heavens, staining the whole firmament overhead. Even the city beneath that sky was enveloped by the demonic aura.
The sun was obscured. Though the sky stretched cloudless for ten thousand miles, thunder rumbled and lightning flashed amid rolling clouds.
The residents of Sky Blue City all raised their heads in terror to stare at the sky.
"What is that?" Faced with the surging demonic aura, some muttered while others whispered among themselves.
Within Lan Manor at the center of the city, many verdant plants had been grown around this understated residence, one that usually kept its brilliance hidden.
At this moment, even those plants had turned pitch-black. In the courtyard at the heart of the manor, the suspended pendulum clock—
Suddenly began to move, its hand stopping at a certain position and trembling without pause, ringing out with sharp clangs.
Most members of the Lan Lineage did not know of their identity as the Demon Slaying Family. As the foremost power in Sky Blue City, most of the clansmen had also fallen into panic.
Amid the rolling demonic aura above, a pair of incomparably scarlet eyes was reflected across the firmament, calmly watching the entire city.
"What is that thing?" someone said fearfully.
Lan Juntian, the head of the Lan Lineage, hurried into a hidden space within the Lineage that no one else knew of.
The space was not large, and within it stood seven very ordinary thatched cottages.
A vast vegetable garden had been planted before those cottages, filled with every kind of vegetable imaginable.
Behind the cottages lay a large orchard. Many of the spirit trees within were so ancient that their age could no longer be traced.
Plucking chrysanthemums