Yet in the Xia Dynasty, the Star Spirits did not exist by hiding dormant underground, but truly and genuinely existed as the Emperor Star, high in mid-heaven, blazing with resplendent light, casting down brilliant radiance.
And ever since the late Xia Dynasty, the stars that hung in the night sky disappeared.
Later on, simply because the Great Zhou Dragon Vein appeared, people tacitly assumed that Ziwei had become the Emperor Star.
But is there not such a possibility? That the Emperor Star... had long since vanished? That Beidou and Ziwei merely devoured Southern Dipper and Gu Xuan, and only thus managed to linger on, clinging to life.
And because Beidou was the Xia Dynasty's Emperor Star, it directly resisted that wave of power that destroyed the Ancient God Era, and so was especially weakened.
In an era of "seeing who is weaker," the wounded Beidou was naturally overtaken by the also-feeble Ziwei.
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