The thing was, there wasn't anything in particular about this day that stood out to Xie Lian. Really, it could have been any number of days in the eight hundred years he'd walked the earth as a banished god. In the moment, Xie Lian didn't expect that to change.

How could he have known that only five minutes in the future he would ascend to the heavens for an unprecedented third time? Just about anything else felt more likely.