Bright light filled the heavens; resplendent stars shone across the universe.
Within the celestial Star Sea of the Jiuzhou World, amid vast clouds, the True Lords of the Eastern Heaven Daoist Sect stood in ordered ranks upon auspicious clouds and sacred beasts, bathed in radiant light.
Penglai, Qinghua, Tianhe, Chixiao, Yaochi.
Huaguang Immortal Monarch, Junxiao Immortal Monarch, Xuanjing Immortal Monarch, Chiyun Immortal Monarch, Yuzhen Immortal Monarch;
True Lord Yuanyi, True Lord Hongyi, True Lord Zhaozhen, True Lord Xiaoyuan, True Lord Quedi.
From Mahayana Immortal Monarchs and Five Calamities True Lords down through Integration True Lords, Void Refinement True Lords, and Dharma Image True Persons, the Eastern Heaven Daoist Sect's ranks stretched millions of miles between heaven and earth. Surrounded by countless immortals of the Upper Three Realms and hundreds of millions of disciples, a dazzling pillar of profound light pierced the Jiuzhou World from earth to sky.
Within that blazing pillar, a towering figure emerged from time itself and revealed his true face.
His surging fortune condensed into an acre-wide auspicious cloud three feet above his head, hung with golden cups, silver lamps, command arrows, and ritual banners. His vast Dao resonance swirled three inches behind his head, forming a wheel of threefold azure, gold, and purple light that embodied his Pure Yang attainment.
An auspicious cloud above the head and a Dao wheel behind it: that was Pure Yang.
With the three flowers gathered and the five energies complete, one stepped beyond the Three Realms and outside the Five Elements, endured ten thousand calamities without wearing away, neither aged nor died, and survived even the destruction of heaven and earth.
On the Divine Path, such a being received a gold-and-purple decree and ruled a world as emperor. In the Buddhist School, worshippers bowed before his True Fruition and revered