The Mad Star God

[You look at the Star God's statue directly ahead, and the information about the Star God beside it comes into view.]

[Star God.]

[Position: commander-in-chief of the Mountain and Sea Main Battlefield.]

[Biography: the Star God's contributions are difficult to put into words, but even the mere scraps of information known about him are enough to elevate him to the stature of a great historical figure.]

[In the weighty five-thousand-year history of Huaxia, the Star God is certain to have left a bold mark.]

[In the struggle against external enemies, from the moment the Arrow Realms shattered and the other races invaded, the Star God organized a group of the country's strongest Heavenly Mandate Bearers and led them far away to the Mountain and Sea Main Battlefield. There, he opened up the battlefield and, by his own power, held back the powerful other races invading Huaxia.]

[During the invasion, the Star Grand Array deployed by the Star God also covered the entire country. Whenever members of the other races entered Huaxia, the Star Grand Array would lock onto and kill them in the shortest possible time.]

[As for Martial Dao, ever since the God of Wealth pioneered and developed it, the Star God also organized people to open a path forward for Martial Dao. Amid his busy schedule intercepting powerful enemies of the other races, he modified the basic Martial Dao cultivation method, giving it a star attribute.]

[Even the martial artists fighting on Huaxia's four internal battlefields-the Imperial Capital Battlefield, the Demon Capital Battlefield, the Guangshen Battlefield, and the Jiang City Battlefield-could use it to resonate with the Star Grand Array and draw on its power to blast their enemies to death.]

[Later generations called it the Star God Body Tempering Method.]

[For Heavenly Mandate Bearers, the Star God pushed through the Heavenly Mandate Bearer Merit System despite the resistance before him, greatly mobilizing civilian Heavenly Mandate Bearers to join the fight in the war against the other races.]

[But according to Xu Muyun, chair of the National Heroic Martyrs Evaluation Committee convened in year 31, if that were all the Star God had done, it would not have been enough to place him on a pedestal and make him a great historical figure of the present age.]

[On January 18 of year 24, forty-nine Arrow Realms along the border launched a joint attack, shaking the frontier. At the same time, a top expert of the other races infiltrated Huaxia and, enduring the backlash of the stars and risking the destruction of body and soul, brutally murdered the God of Wealth before a vast crowd.]

[On January 19, the Star God returned from the main battlefield and attended the God of Wealth's funeral.]

[On January 20, the Star God emerged from seclusion, his temperament utterly changed. He went to the Mountain and Sea Main Battlefield and entered the Layi Clan's territory in No. 36 Arrow Realm on the border alone, drawing on the power of the stars filling the sky to slaughter the Layi Clan indiscriminately.]

[On March 15, No. 36 Arrow Realm on the border was destroyed, and the Layi Clan was wiped out, shocking the world.]

[On April 18, the third month after the God of Wealth's death, the Star God went alone to the Fire Tree Clan's territory in No. 08 Arrow Realm on the border. He covered the Fire Tree Clan's lands with the power of the stars, and No. 08 Arrow Realm was destroyed.]

[On May 28, the Star God destroyed No. 06 Arrow Realm on the border.]

[On June 30, the Star God destroyed No. 14 Arrow Realm on the border.]

[On July 5, the Star God destroyed No. 35 Arrow Realm on the border.]

[On July 17, the Star God destroyed No. 01 Arrow Realm on the border.]

[On August 1, the Star God destroyed No. 02 Arrow Realm, No. 04 Arrow Realm, and No. 49 Arrow Realm on the border. Three Arrow Realms were destroyed in a single day, shocking the world.]

[The Star God's acts of crazed retaliation also provoked resistance and fear among the beings of nearly every Arrow Realm.]

[For a time, powerful members of the other races gathered in great numbers. Even within the country, a group of Heavenly Mandate Bearers strongly opposed the Star God's crazed slaughter, believing that he had gone completely mad and was unfit to be commander-in-chief.]

[And when the Star God returned to the Imperial Capital and appeared openly in public view, everyone was shocked.]

[Gone was the elegant Star God of old, dressed in purple. In his place was the Star God in a blood-red robe, reeking of slaughter.]

[One Heavenly Mandate Bearer said that merely meeting the Star God's gaze from afar was enough to make him feel as though he had seen a boundless sea of blood. The slaughter and evil nearly drove him to a mental collapse.]

[Five days later, beyond the border, the Star God faced a siege by powerful members of the other races alone.]

[Before a vast audience, the Star God killed forty-three King Rank and five Emperor Rank members of the other races, and destroyed the nine Rule Arrow Realms that had committed the largest forces to the battle.]

[In the end, the Star God shed his blood on the spot. The Star God fell, and the starlight went out.]

[But in the final moment before his death, the Star God gazed with deep passion upon the land of his motherland and used his remnant soul to draw upon the stars, returning their power to the Star Grand Array.]

[From then on, the Star Grand Array's power surged, and even King Rank members of the other races could not withstand its attacks.]

[After the Star God's death, the attacks by the other races on the Imperial Capital Battlefield, the Demon Capital Battlefield, the Guangshen Battlefield, and the Jiang City Battlefield grew ever more frenzied. Many believed that it was the Star God's inhuman massacres that had driven the other races to attack so frenziedly.]

[But others believed that, if not for the great feat of slaughter the Star God had accomplished by burning his life, Huaxia's border would likely have fallen long ago.]

[In any case, with the passage of time, many scholars studying the Star God came to believe that the bond between the God of Wealth and the Star God exceeded everyone's expectations and imagination.]

[Had the God of Wealth not been killed, the Star God would never have gone mad.]

[In the short term, the Star God's slaughter filled the beings of the Arrow Realms with fear, so that they no longer dared raise armies to invade Huaxia.]

[But from the perspective of long-term development, it was precisely the Star God's acts of slaughter that caused even some Arrow Realm beings who were friendly toward humanity to distance themselves from Huaxia, no longer daring to have any dealings with it.]

[At the same time, the Star God's death was also a great national tragedy!]

[Although the Star God's actions were criticized for their brutality, as time passed, more and more Heavenly Mandate Bearers and soldiers came to regard the Star God as the object of their faith and lifelong pursuit.]

[Therefore, in the selection held in year 31, after weighing numerous considerations, the committee concluded that the Star God was worthy of the name of a god and was also the first great historical figure to enter the annals of modern Huaxia's development.]

[Now that the departed have passed on, we should honor the dead and remember our heroic martyrs, and express our reverence for the Star God, a great figure in Huaxia's history.]

[And now, we will play for everyone an audio recording of the Star God speaking, provided in May of year 28 by the Star God's colleague and comrade-in-arms, His Excellency the Battle God.]