Prologue In a remote corner of the vast universe, a hazy speck of golden light drifted through the pitch-black starfield at a steady pace. From time to time, cries echoed out of it — faint and intermittent, sometimes vanishing altogether, as though weeping blood, or perhaps the cackling laughter of some infernal abyss.
No one knew how many years had passed before a colossal blue planet loomed into view ahead.
BOOM — a deafening roar!
Under the pull of the planet's gravity, the golden light hurtled toward the world at a staggering speed. The instant it touched the atmosphere, it erupted into a raging, blazing meteor and plummeted toward a stretch of ocean below.
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In the ninth year of the Tianyuan reign of Great Qi, an Official of Spirits reported to the imperial court that an extraterrestrial object had plummeted into the Eastern Sea. The impact unleashed towering waves that swallowed more than twenty islands. Several coastal counties under the Yue Prefecture were struck by the surge — ten thousand homes destroyed, countless civilians and livestock perished. — *Records of the Eastern Continent* Wang Yu's new novel *Gate of the Mystic World* is now serializing in full swing on Qidian Chinese Web! Be sure to follow and add it to your collection!
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