In a dark corner of Divine Moon Skycity was a man in a white robe, sitting on a platform with his daughter in his arms. He gently stroked her head as she counted the stars in the sky.

"There are so many. Is every one of them a sun, Daddy?" Little You asked.

"That's right," Bodhi answered.

"So our home, the Ninefold Hell, used to be one of those shining stars before it lost its nova source, right?"

"It wasn't a nova source, but a stellunar source. Our ancestors descended from the empyrean fiendgod race. Even though we weren't that strong, we were at least among the many others in the astralscape of...