Jiuding weeps blood, and confusion invades the sky. The deposed prince Xiao Yin holds the jade seal that has devoured his life and ascends to the throne on the bones of his brothers; the wolf Khan Tuoba Hao splits the Tiema River that has been frozen for centuries, pointing his scimitar directly at the Central Plains; the witch sacrifices the blood of a hundred thousand souls to the devil in the white night, and the miasma engulfs the three states. When the core of the Suzaku Tower exploded into the clouds, the Yu Clan's prophet glimpsed the truth from the falling Cloud City: this catastrophe was actually a millennium scam set by the first emperor. Should we recast the Nine Cauldrons to control the mountains and rivers, or allow the devil to swallow up the Nine Provinces? The Xuanyuan Sword sleeping at the bottom of the Chishui River screams mournfully, and deep in the underground palace of Jixia Academy, the burned fragments of the "Heluo Heavenly Book" are quietly reorganizing the star path...
