As the year came to an end, Gu Chen soon turned twenty-three, and throughout the lands, strange occurrences began to unfold. These events were urgently communicated over eight hundred li back to Tiandu.
It was on this very day that the newly warmed Tiandu faced a sudden downfall of goose-feather-like heavy snow, the weather abruptly becoming bitterly cold beyond compare, even colder than previous winters, as though a frigid ice age had descended.
Moreover, different transformations were happening in the other states.
In some areas, torrential rain poured down for days and nights without cease, while in others, the climate turned unbearably hot, as if the great sun had descended to the earth's surface. The scorching heat caused countless crops to die, and that state experienced an unprecedented drought.
Certain states faced alternating cycles of extreme heat and bitter cold.