The Nine Serenities Netherworld Crow!

Su Yi’s eyes narrowed slightly.

People paled at the mere mention of this inauspicious bird. Wherever it appeared, enormous changes and calamities were sure to follow.

“Generations of the Cui Family’s ancestral teachings specifically emphasized that, were the Nine Serenities Netherworld Crow to appear before the millennial Lantern Festival, it would mean that that year’s festival would bring an incomparable onslaught to Ziluo City,” Cui Chang’an said gravely, irrepressible concern on his brow. “All manner of dormant, strange and malevolent powers will break free of the earth and attack the city on all sides!”

The Netherworld had never been peaceful. On the contrary, this vast, boundless world was interspersed with too many danger zones to count.

Similarly, the millennial Lantern Festival was no celebration.

On the contrary, during the Lantern Festival, a strange, inauspicious power blotted out the Netherworld’s source, plunging the world into darkness reminiscent of an eternal night. All manner of strange and malevolent powers would arise throughout the Netherworld.

The Netherworld’s orthodoxies all needed to light...