Opening
The void was pitch black and silent, with some stars emitting colorful light, sprinkling small dots of brightness across the entire dark emptiness. In a shattered asteroid field, ahead not far from the area, there was a vortex-like halo. Surrounding this vortex halo were concentric rings of rainbow-colored glows, which stood out brightly in the vast dark starry sky.
At this moment, a circular flying artifact, several dozen meters in size, was darting through the asteroid field, speeding like lightning towards the rainbow-colored halo. However, its speed seemed painfully slow in the boundless, pitch-black void. When the flying artifact was still several thousand meters away from the aura of spiritual energy, it suddenly collided with an invisible barrier, producing a huge noise, like a fish swiftly rushing into a net, struggling and getting caught.
At that moment, red light beams shot out from the surrounding asteroid piles, like sharp swords, striking towards the circular flying artifact. The entire flying artifact was instantly engulfed in these red beams. As the red beams neared the circular flying artifact, the artifact suddenly activated white light shields, blocking the incoming red beams.
"Boom! Boom! Boom!" The entire area was shaken by the enormous sound of impacts, swaying as if a building was about to collapse. The red beams continued to strike the white light shields of the flying artifact, their frequency increasing and their intensity growing. The white shields slowly dimmed and lost their brightness under the relentless assault of the red beams.
"Boom!" The circular flying artifact could no longer hold up, and with a huge sound, it disintegrated into countless pieces, flying towards the void. At the moment the artifact disintegrated, a beautiful young woman with a diamond-shaped mark on her forehead appeared in the void above. She was holding a child about one year old in her arms. The child had a round black pendant the size of a thumb hanging on their chest and was holding a small egg-shaped stone the size of an infant's fist, sleeping soundly.
The beautiful young woman's face became cold as she glanced at the child in her arms. With her right hand, she formed a few virtual seals in front of her chest, and her body emitted waves of intense energy. Around her, a huge ripple vortex formed centered on her, and terrifying white beams of light shot out, engulfing everything around her, turning everything in their path to ashes.
After a long time, the surrounding dust began to clear. The beautiful young woman had a faint trace of fresh blood at the corner of her mouth. She took out a pill the size of her index finger from her storage ring, which emitted a strong life force, and swallowed it. She then soared toward the rainbow-colored halo ahead, moving faster than the previous flying artifact.
In less than a few minutes, the beautiful young woman appeared in front of the vortex halo, her face pale. She looked gently at the child still sleeping in her arms, then leaped forward and entered the rainbow-colored halo. When the beautiful young woman stepped into the vortex light ball, countless giant purple beams suddenly shot towards the vortex light ball. The purple beams covered the entire vortex, and after a huge sound, the entire vortex exploded violently. The entire void was distorted, and the shockwave turned the asteroid field within several million kilometers into dust.
A palace surrounded by spiritual energy floated in the void, with stars either orderly or chaotic surrounding it, protecting the palace. Everything indicated the mystery and extraordinariness of this place. At this moment, under a large tree in front of the palace, a middle-aged man dressed in a multicolored Daoist robe, with a crescent-shaped mark on his forehead, sat on a wicker chair. In his right arm, he was holding a boy around four or five years old, who also had a crescent-shaped mark on his forehead.
The middle-aged man looked at the horizon, furrowing his brow. He glanced at the boy and said, "The emperor star dims, the calamity approaches, heroes will rise, dragons and phoenixes will compete for glory, for countless ages, who will determine the fate?"
"Ancestor, what exactly is happening?" The boy, hearing his words, looked up at the middle-aged man, and a childish voice came from the boy's mouth.
The middle-aged man, with a loving smile, gently pinched the boy's soft, tender face, like egg white, and laughed, saying, "Haha, you'll know in the future."