A World-Shaking Birth

On the day he was born, the entire city of Chang'an was shrouded in a sudden blizzard.

A fortune-teller declared that his birth was marked by a celestial omen, and that he was destined to unleash eighteen storms of bloodshed. Either he would die, or the realm would descend into chaos.

Yet the fortune-teller met his own doom on the very night of the child's birth. He had just carried the baby out of the imperial palace when he suddenly collapsed and died, blood pouring from all seven orifices!