In the end, what Jason Allen found was a small red round stone. This thing had originally sunk into the soil and ashes, but because it emitted warmth, it was discovered by Jason Allen. No matter how he examined it, there was nothing particularly special about it—its surface was merely as smooth as a raindrop stone. However, when held, it felt as warm as a human body.

After hastily checking everything, Jason Allen confirmed that nothing had been missed and quickly wrapped up these few items.

After finishing all this, Jason Allen was quite surprised at how vigorous and strong his energy still was, that he could manage to finish everything without fainting. But just at that moment, as he relaxed his mind, he suddenly felt an indescribable, intense pain erupting from a spot above his cheekbone and another at the center-top of his head, slightly to the left!

The sensation was exactly like someone pressing a burning-hot cigarette butt directly onto exposed nerves, so excruciating that the pain spread out in all directions like blazing sunlight, instantly overwhelming Jason Allen completely.

In an instant, he lost all control over his body, collapsing to the ground, letting out a shrill, miserable scream, his face twisted in agony, his willpower shattering...

Because of this, in such a state, Jason Allen didn’t notice at all that the red, body-temperature round stone had rolled out of the bundle on its own, then slowly floated up into the air, and, bathed in the moonlight, struggled to fly toward the depths of the sky.

Meanwhile, the pillar of hazy purple energy above Jason Allen’s head grew even denser, and strange patterns began to appear on it!

***

A demonic star appears in the world, invades Ziwei, assaults the Big Dipper, and throws the world into chaos!

In the 339th year of the imperial lineage, after fourteen generations of emperors, the great state of David was torn apart and vanished into the river of history.

But no one knew that this was only the beginning of the world’s chaos!

When the demonic star passed closest to the earth, it scattered a great number of “essences,” searching for suitable targets, polluting the souls and destinies of these people! As a result, the trajectories of their lives and their personal experiences would undergo drastic changes, and their very fates would mutate accordingly. Those who bore the fate of the demonic star later came to be known as “demonic fated ones.”

This may sound bizarre and unbelievable, but there are precedents. Before Jason Allen crossed over, Earth was already scientifically advanced and intellectually enlightened.

However, since 1682 AD, people had discovered that whenever Halley’s Comet passed by Earth, a hen would inevitably lay an egg whose shell was covered in star-like patterns. The patterns on the shell matched the comet’s appearance, as if carved into it, and no matter how you wiped it, they wouldn’t come off.

Over the long years that followed, this theory was confirmed: every time Halley’s Comet returned, somewhere on Earth, a “comet egg” would be found. No one could explain it scientifically—at least not before Jason Allen crossed over.

So, strictly speaking, there isn’t much difference between Halley’s Comet and the demonic star. The former, when near Earth, seems to scatter only a tiny amount of “essence,” and it only affects hens. The latter produces more, and targets humans.

Because fetuses and infants are the purest, they have the highest chance of being polluted by the demonic star’s essence. Those who are polluted are almost indistinguishable from ordinary people. In fact, because they inherit the demonic star’s genes, they possess even greater talent and aptitude than normal people!

The hidden genes from the demonic star will become active at a specific time. This could be at a moment of life and death, during the period just after coming of age, or, if the person’s own aptitude is too poor, it might be passed to the next generation. There’s no fixed pattern.

Once the demonic star’s fate awakens, the person becomes a demonic fated one. They must regularly use moonlight to temper their bodies, in a manner similar to what Jason Allen did that night.

If they don’t, just as a tree will wither if it goes too long without sunlight, the polluted demonic fated ones will meet the same, or even worse, fate.

If they act on instinct, as described earlier, during the process of exchanging internal waste with the moonlight, a haze of purple energy will appear above their heads, like a signal fire shooting straight into the sky, undeterred by wind or rain. Only other demonic fated ones can see this spectacle, and even from a thousand miles away, they can sense the general location.

When two demonic fated ones, both bearing the same polluted fate, encounter each other, they will, driven by instinctive greed, hunt and kill one another, trying to seize the demonic star’s fate from the other’s body. This inevitably leads to bloody and brutal struggles.

This method truly brings the law of the jungle to its extreme! To put it bluntly, even if a demonic fated one is naturally peaceful and unwilling to prey on others with the same tragic fate, if you don’t go after others, others will come after you!