The Void Sun Rat symbolized the mid-autumn sun, originally signifying an auspicious beast.
Yet it also symbolized a whole series of negative things: nothingness, emptiness, depletion, ruins. With inauspicious stars such as the Weeping Star and Sobbing Star surrounding it, it ultimately came to be regarded as a sinister god.
But whether someone was auspicious or sinister depended not on the attributes they governed, but on the person.
If those attributes were given to Qiu Wuji, would she become a little rat?
No. The little rat would simply have been replaced by a wicked woman.
Qiu Wuji soared into the sky, gathering the moon and plucking the stars, and soon collected all the Heavenly Dao Inscriptions scattered through the void into her hands.
The inscriptions dissolved of their own accord, merging into her bit by bit.
Qiu Wuji could see what seemed to be inscriptions engraved deep within her Spiritual Platform, and she gained the power to "rule" the corresponding things in the world.
For example...
Qiu Wuji pointed a finger.
The churning seawater slowed, as though time were being frittered away.
"I can see time passing," Qiu Wuji murmured dreamily. "I can command it to a certain extent."
Time and space, illusion and reality, existence and nonexistence had always been the highest-order laws of the Dao. The Void Sun Rat had only been responsible for a small part of them.
But this was a stepping stone, the beginning of her entry into the domains of time and nothingness.
Moreover, this was ruling and controlling, not "studying and comprehending." It was a fundamental change from the Mortal Realm. One could even say that only now did Qiu Wuji deeply feel, "This is the Heavenly Realm."
Otherwise, how was it different from the Mortal Realm?
The difference was that the Heavenly