Nine Songs That Shake the World

There is no Heaven's Mandate, only an unyielding, proud backbone.

There is no defying heaven through cultivation, only a regret-free heroic song that shakes the world.

The seas rage and the land is ravaged, with one disaster following another. An unprecedented cataclysm, unknown even in ancient times, descends. After countless apocalypses, a glimmer of hope is nowhere to be seen.

At the summit of the Nine Heavens, the Heavenly Pillar soars high, and the sacred temple is shrouded in clouds. It protects all living beings and blesses every soul.

"But if the pillar is destroyed and the temple collapses, if the righteous path is no more, then I will be the pillar that holds up heaven and earth. I shall speak to Heaven above and the common folk below. Here, before this vast and righteous world, I swear to use my body and soul to shield all living beings from this towering storm."

"No need to be so serious," she said, pouting behind him as she spat out a melon seed shell. "You make it sound like the world is ending. Tonight, just have some of my special eggplant cakes. I won't peel them."

Soft sleeves fluttered beneath the collapsing sky, offering hope and tenderness amid the flames of war.

The vast heavens span mountains and seas, the deep pools churn beneath steep, coiling dragons.

Battle blood surges for eighty thousand miles, then rides the wind in a leap to the Ninth Heaven.

Waves wash the azure blade, opening the martial path; hidden schemes and profound diagrams reveal divine strategy.

The rugged borderlands are purged of evil, and the bright moon shines through the clouds for all eternity.