[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-i-sparked-the-hundred-demon-night-parade-in-toky":3,"chapter-i-sparked-the-hundred-demon-night-parade-in-toky-i-sparked-the-hundred-demon-night-parade-in-toky-chapter-27":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","I Sparked the Hundred Demon Night Parade in Tokyo",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},2326245,4550,"Chapter 27: Parting Clouds to Reveal the Blue Sky","i-sparked-the-hundred-demon-night-parade-in-toky-chapter-27",27,"\u003Cp>\"Did you notice? Then it’s time to begin.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Inside the convenience store, Kamikawa Mitsu gazed into the distance, his eyes deep as if stars had sunk and sun and moon revolved within them, revealing all illusions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His words echoed through the convenience store.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No one heard them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Japan, Arakawa Ward.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Mom, I’ve arrived in Japan. I’m out shopping right now.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A young American exchange student walked down the street, holding her phone, video-calling her mother back in America.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To reassure her mother and prove that her study-abroad environment in Japan was fine.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She raised her phone, filming herself while also capturing the surroundings.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As she filmed…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She accidentally included the sky behind her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"OMG!!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the video, the American mother and daughter were chatting when the mother’s peripheral vision caught sight of the sky—she gasped in shock, eyes wide.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"My God! Daughter, look at the sky! Behind you—the sky!!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The American mother screamed in wild excitement.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As if possessed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At that moment, she kept pointing through the phone screen toward the sky above her daughter’s location.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What’s wrong with Mom?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The sky behind me?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What’s wrong with it?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The American exchange student stared blankly, turning to look at the sky behind her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In an instant!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She gasped, clapped both hands over her mouth, and screamed incoherently.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"OMG!! Fuck! Is God born?!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the same moment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Similar cries erupted across Arakawa Ward, and in the neighboring wards.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Above Arakawa Ward.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The night sky, once black, churned with clouds—dense and piled like before a storm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But these were not dark clouds, nor was rain coming.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The clouds were pure white, vast and radiant.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Suddenly!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the center of the rolling white ocean of clouds, one cloud burst forth with a light like the primordial radiance of heaven and earth’s first opening.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Light of Primordial Chaos—sacred and ineffable.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>From that cloud as center, holy divine radiance spread outward, engulfing the surrounding clouds.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Within moments, every cloud glowed, pure and sacred as the legendary nine-heaven auspicious clouds, existing only in the age of the gods.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The sea of clouds blazed brilliantly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Like a cosmic galaxy descending above Arakawa Ward.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The light was too bright.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At that moment, Arakawa Ward was bathed in daylight, as bright as noon.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then, like a stone cast into a lake.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The holy radiant sea of clouds rippled, surging like waves.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Cloud waves churned.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Their height threatened to overturn heaven and earth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The light of the cloud sea flickered—sometimes blazing with brilliance, sometimes transparent as a film, alternating between light and dark, as if virtual and reality intertwined.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Each time it dimmed and turned transparent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A vast force surged outward.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The earth trembled faintly; the heavens swayed—as if some terrifying power threatened to collapse the sky and sink the earth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What is that! Are aliens landing?!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A salaryman who had just finished dinner and was heading back to the office for overtime stared upward, dumbfounded, watching the impossible scene above—his briefcase slipped from his hand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Wife! Wife, come quick! Stop putting on makeup—come look! The sky! There’s a door in the sky!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In a Japanese apartment, a husband sat in a chair by the window, waiting for his wife to finish her makeup before going out, when he suddenly screamed in terror, as if seeing a ghost.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What are you yelling about? Are you having a seizure? How could there be… Oh my God! Oh my God! Husband, look at the sky!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His wife stormed out, annoyed—but the moment she looked up, her makeup cracked from shock.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"My God, am I seeing things?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Look at the sky!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What is that?!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The astonishing anomaly above Arakawa Ward drove everyone mad.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hearts trembled; souls shook.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The scene in the sky was vast and turbulent, unlike anything ever seen.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gazing upon the boundless sea of clouds radiating divine celestial light, people felt as if they had stepped into a dream.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Quick! Quick, film what’s in the sky!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Someone shouted this.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Everyone pulled out their phones and frantically filmed, faces alight with unparalleled excitement.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this moment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The night sky, illuminated by the holy radiant cloud sea, shone as bright as day.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Below, in Arakawa Ward, tens of thousands of lights flashed densely—like stars twinkling.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They were phone camera flashes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Emotions—excitement, exhilaration, wonder—filled every heart.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They wanted to capture this heart-stopping moment, one that might well be recorded in history.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Quick! Report this situation to Tokyo…\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The chief of the Arakawa Ward police station, overwhelmed with emotion, nearly bit his tongue.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Chief Nakamura! Look!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hearing his subordinate’s shout, the chief looked up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Holy shit!!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The heavens.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The vast sea of holy light flickered, reaching its limit—after one final flash, the blazing radiance suddenly retracted inward.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In an instant.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The center of the cloud sea exploded.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A deafening roar echoed for ten thousand li; the entire Tokyo could hear it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Those unaware might have thought a nuclear bomb had detonated in Arakawa Ward.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the center of the cloud sea, the clouds remained—but the dazzling divine light had transformed into a misty vapor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The scene resembled a celestial lake in the heavens.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Clouds gathered around its edges; the water was not water, but composed of misty vapor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Faint streams of light flowed and glided within the vapor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The mist glowed softly, suffused with spiritual energy—so delicate, it seemed a single touch would make it ripple like water.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The thought arose.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As if an invisible divine hand, vast enough to cover ancient mountains and obscure sun and moon, descended.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The hand touched the celestial lake and cloud sea.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A gentle ripple.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The cloud sea changed—truly, as if “parting clouds to reveal the blue sky.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The celestial lake rippled, petals of light scattered in all directions, radiance shimmering in five hues—the mist parted, revealing what lay within.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What is that?!!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Gasp!!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The scene within the lake held no water, no fish—only…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Towering skyscrapers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Streets wound through them, silent and desolate.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Beyond that, the lake held a sky—dusk, the setting sun hanging high.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was a scene of twilight, desolation, a city in decline.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Isn’t this our Arakawa Ward?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Someone recognized that the Cloud Lake scene was none other than Arakawa Ward.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the image, every building, every street, matched Arakawa Ward exactly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They looked up at the Cloud Lake view.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Everyone felt something inexplicable.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It felt as if they weren’t tilting their heads to gaze at the sky, but were hovering above Arakawa Ward, looking down upon it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The scenery lay fully within view.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If not for the fact that the image was composed of clouds, and its edges still pulsed with surging light, like streaking meteors.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It truly seemed as if a vast mirror hung in the heavens, reflecting everything on the ground within it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Reflection or not,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>the mirror reflected no people—only buildings and the environment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And the reflected sky had turned to the golden hues of dusk.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Could this be a mirage?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The thought of a mirage arose, then was immediately discarded.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If the image in the sky truly showed Arakawa Ward’s streets,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>it could not possibly be a mirage.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A mirage is a natural phenomenon caused by refraction and total internal reflection of light, usually distorting distant scenes—how could it possibly reflect a local scene?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Moreover, the image clearly showed twilight.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was currently night—no, a night as bright as day, utterly unrelated to dusk.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Most crucially, the image contained a setting sun.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At that moment,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>as everyone stared in astonishment at the Cloud Lake, speculating whether it was a mirage,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>the scene within the Cloud Lake shifted.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The lake’s mist glowed, radiating brilliant light across the nine heavens.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The mist and clouds rippled; each expanding ring drew the image closer, magnifying it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It seemed as if a divine being gazed down from the nine heavens, through the Immortal Lake and cloud sea, upon this region.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The image was moving??\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This definitely wasn’t a mirage!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As the scene within the lake changed, everyone affirmed: this was not a mirage—so then, what was it?!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A few blinks.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The lake’s waves rippled outward, and the image expanded further, becoming a panoramic view pulled even farther back.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Hurry!! Damn it, report this to the Metropolitan Police!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The chief of the Arakawa Ward police station roared, then stared upward in utter shock.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At that moment, everyone was stunned, gazing at the Cloud Lake image in the sky.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Is this really a reflection of Arakawa Ward?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“T-the city—it’s a floating city!!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Above, the vast, boundless Cloud Lake image no longer lingered on Arakawa Ward—it rose higher still.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And this time, as it rose,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>the entire expanse of the twilight sky came fully into view.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Among it, a colossal, ancient city suspended in the heavens also came into everyone’s sight.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>(Sorry for the late update; to make up for it, I’ll add extra chapters these days.)\u003C\u002Fp>",1471,"2026-06-20T17:56:08.120Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","ee54a06201e9a85ef9e4259f81d08965bfa6702dc3924b7a278d5b555635d0d3","i-sparked-the-hundred-demon-night-parade-in-toky-chapter-28","i-sparked-the-hundred-demon-night-parade-in-toky-chapter-26",477,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fi-sparked-the-hundred-demon-night-parade-in-toky-cover.jpg"]