Against the Heavens Through Wind and Cloud

The modern-day children Jia Ruofeng and Wei Ruyun were once the village's darling boy and girl. But life is unpredictable. A local bully named Ren Chusheng murdered their parents, leaving both children orphaned.

The fifth day of the fifth lunar month was their shared birthday. That night, fierce winds howled, lightning flashed, dark clouds gathered, and rain poured down. The two poor children lay beneath a haystack in the village, and both died.

Meanwhile, on the Cangfan Continent, the wives of two martial cultivation families, the Jia and Wei clans, gave birth at the same time. Strangely, each baby was clutching a small, unidentified object in their palm: entirely black, neither gold nor silver, neither copper nor iron, neither stone nor jade, about the size of a pinky fingertip and shaped like a full moon…