Heavenly Calamity (chapter)


 * For other pages named "Heavenly Calamity", see Heavenly Calamity (disambiguation).

Heavenly Calamity is the first and debut chapter of Bu Tian Ge. It was released on December 1, 2018.

Summary
As a thunderstorm and rain descends upon the imperial palace, the imperial staff look upon the skies with anxiousness. As the skies clear, Qin Jing, an imperial consort, lays in bed, exhausted and huffing. Her mother, congratulates her on the successful delivery of twins. She comments that the birth of twins is an auspicious blessing from both a dragon and a phoenix. The prince is born with a mole the color of cinnabar on his forehead and is solemnly quiet. Qin Jing believes the emperor will adore the prince. However, she tells her mother to inform the emperor that she only gave birth to a prince. As she observes the princess, she notes that the princess has six fingers. She remarks that under the previous dynasty, a regent princess with six fingers attempted to seize control of the empire and hence brought chaos and disaster upon the imperial court. A princess with six fingers is hence a symbol of a bringer of calamity. She states that as an imperial consort, she is destined to become queen, and the newborn boy, the crown prince.

In the imperial court, General Wei apologizes to the emperor for being unable to prevent mystics from barging into the palace. As the emperor looks on, the mystics approach him. One mystic introduces himself as a Daoist of the highest rank. The emperor questions the mystic as to why he has come to the palace. The mystic reveals that he witnessed sunbeams rain blessings on the palace, a symbol that good fortune had befallen the palace, and that he has come with gift of treasures for the emperor. He asks the emperor's generals to step back. As he smashes his staff into the hard paving, an enormous tree of the spiritual world with leaves of pink grows from the rock. The tree will only produce fruit three times and consuming one fruit will extend a lifeline by 60 years. It is the first treasure for the emperor. Secondly, he reveals a drum made from a thousand-year-old celestial alligator beast with the power to make the empire absolutely loyal to him with one beat of the drum. The emperor bows down in respect to the mystic and apologizes for not appropriately welcoming them into his palace. The mystic requests that the emperor bring for the third treasure, to which the emperor looks onto the mystic in confusion. An imperial messenger runs to approach the emperor and tells the news of consort Qin Jing's successful delivery of the fourth prince. Holding the infant, the emperor questions the mystic if the third treasure is the newborn prince. Taking the prince from the emperor's arms, the mystic comments that the prince possesses spiritual energy and was born flawless with great potential. He elaborates that the prince was born holding the fate of both heaven and earth in his hands and that he does not belong in the mortal world. To prevent great calamity from befalling the mortals, he has come to take the newborn away. Thus, the birth of a spiritual child that will be raised in the spiritual world is the emperor's third treasure. And so, the mystics leave into the sky taking the prince with them.

Looking on from the distance, are two celestial children from Kunlun. The celestial girl recognizes the mystics as Tiangong Sui and Cang Wuzi from the Penglai sect of the eastern sea, and is baffled that Cang Wuzi, the most powerful of all celestial immortals was willing to disguise himself as a conman to trick mortals. The celestial boy tells the girl to stay quiet. However, the girl is angered that their future disciple was taken away before they could get to the infant. However, the boy questions if the infant was truly the chosen one. Holding up a spiritual energy detector, he notices the detector does not react anymore, hence the one chosen to be a future disciple of the spiritual world has already left and is likely not the infant taken away by Tiangong Sui. Frustrated, the celestial children head back to Kunlun.

Far off in the distance in the meadows, the grandmother of the twins cries while holding a blood soaked cloth as she looks into a basket. Shocked at the sight of blood covering the princess who appears to have passed, she cries in grief and tells the child not to blame her mother for her accursed fate. She wishes that princess shall never be reborn into the house of the emperor again.

Somewhere in the skies, Tiangong Sui questions Cang Wuzi if he isn't ashamed at bringing out treasures and spewing nonsense just to trick the emperor into taking away the infant to become a disciple of Penglai. Cang Wuzi replies that not all was was nonsense, and that the fate of the newborn ties in with their's, however the newborn's Qi is very faint, and hence he was unable to find out his destiny. With the newborn boy having severed his connections to his parents, his bonds, his ties and having no name or family, Cang Wuzi bestows the newborn with the Daoist name of Qu Chen to enter Penglai as a disciple.

At an unknown river bad far away, and old man scoops the newborn princess's body from the waters. He notices that the princess had one fingers amputated and comments how wicked abandoning a newborn is. Just as he looks onto the newborn, the princess clenches her hands and begins coughing and crying. Holding the child up in amazement, he comments that the newborn is a fighter like him and that he shall take her as a granddaughter. She is named Ating.

Characters in order of appearance

 * 1) Qin Jing
 * 2) Li
 * 3) Qu Chen
 * 4) Chen Ating
 * 5) Emperor
 * 6) Wei
 * 7) Cang Wuzi
 * 8) Tiangong Sui
 * 9) Lin Lang
 * 10) Yuchi Yi
 * 11) Chen Yansheng