Cloud Continent was vast, but Great Zhen lay in the far south. With Ji Yuan's sword escape, leaving Cloud Continent was naturally swift. Yet as he left Great Zhen's borders and was about to fly over the sea, Ji Yuan looked back and saw a bright but not dazzling white light rising from the direction of Great Zhen's capital as the starlight of the Heavenly River hung down.
Master Yin...
Ji Yuan frowned faintly within, then sighed. Sword light flowed, and he had already flown out of Great Zhen and beyond Cloud Continent.
Night had fallen. Within Vast and Righteous College in Great Zhen's Jingji Prefecture, Yin Zhaoxian was dreaming. Though he had entered a dream, the Righteous Qi that had once been calm stirred like wind and clouds converging.
In his dream, Yin Zhaoxian seemed to have cast off his mortal flesh. As the light of Righteous Qi rose without end, he looked up to find a sky full of stars, as though he could reach out and touch them.
"So this is the river of stars? It truly is dazzling beyond compare!"
As Yin Zhaoxian slept, Righteous Qi seemed to merge with him as one, like the light of another flowing river of stars. It continuously spread across the sky and drifted in every direction. As the dreamscape changed, the Righteous Qi changed as well, as though it could disregard the limits of territory.
The world was in chaos now, and nighttime was naturally the most dangerous hour. Even in cities that had once been peaceful, Demons and Goblins could appear at night. Yet even so, there were still countless people across the world studying by lamplight through the night.
At this moment, however, wherever they were in Great Zhen, across Cloud Continent, or throughout the lands beneath