Following Gu Xing Tian's earth-shaking declaration inside the Hall of Ancestors, chaos swept across the cultivation world.
The impact of his words was not confined to the Gu Clan's borders—it resonated across distant continents, where the great sects began to sense an imminent threat.
In the Western Continent, atop the Forbidden Blades Peak, the Nine Blades Sect opened its eyes for the first time in ten thousand years. The sect's elder, known as Eye of Catastrophes, sat in the Black Meditation Hall, gazing through an ancient spiritual mirror, his eyes glowing with dark mystery.
"He has been born... the Heir of the Reversed Fate," he whispered as he rose from deep contemplation, and the walls of the hall trembled around him.
In the Southern Continent, the Five Shadow Sects—renowned for manipulating information and energy—gathered within the Temple of Night's Echo. Whispers echoed throughout the temple, questioning the nature of the child whose birth made the heavens tremble. A decision was made to dispatch their spies toward the Gu territory.
But what these sects didn't realize… was that the Gu Clan was no longer asleep.
The very next morning, the clan's guardian spirits detected a group of spies breaching the territory's borders.
Gu Xing Tian himself led the investigation, emerging from the Hall of Ancestors in the form of a blazing celestial apparition. The mountains shook, and the air froze in reverence. Hovering in the sky, his voice thundered like a storm across the clouds:
"You who have defiled our borders… did you truly believe the Gu Clan was still dormant?!"
In a single moment, tongues of spiritual fire descended from the heavens, incinerating the spies before they could utter a word. Nothing remained but ashes filled with secrets.
After the incident, the clan's elders analyzed the residual energy—and confirmed the spies were from the Nine Blades Sect, infamous for stealth, poison, and silent assassinations. The revelation shocked many and confirmed one undeniable truth:
Gu Liu—the newborn who hadn't yet lived a full day—had already shaken the balance of the world.
Back in the Hall of Ancestors, Gu Xing Tian stood surrounded by the statues of the forefathers. Their eyes now glowed with the light of ancient life, as though awakened from their long slumber. He spoke in a deep, solemn voice:
"The coming war will not be between sects alone... but between those worthy of survival, and those who will be erased from history forever."
And in a private chamber within the Gu Palace, Gu Liu slept peacefully, unaware that his birth marked the beginning of a new era—a storm from which only the strongest would emerge unscathed.
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