Sacred beings arrived within Peixiang Palace, as the eastern and western sovereigns of the Four Sovereigns were enfeoffed

A Heavenly Venerable had arrived!

For a moment, not only Mingguang and Jinglian, the two great bodhisattvas of Shaoguang World, but even Mingxian, Lingjue, Lingding, and the other great bodhisattvas and arhats from Great Lingyin Temple who had followed Jinjue Buddha were awed by the vast, surging clear radiance and purple qi in the east.

Rosy light stretched for ten thousand zhang, while auspicious mists unfurled in a thousand streams. Heavenly flowers drifted down, golden lotuses bloomed in their wake. The three Heavenly Venerables sat upright upon their Cloud Carriages, above their heads three mu of celebration clouds rising and falling, bearing golden lamps, silver chalices, jade-green bottles, and jeweled necklaces. The three layered Dao wheels of azure, gold, and violet that had once represented Dao fruition, merit, and destiny had already fused into one, becoming a flawless, clear, full, and rounded wheel of True Yang radiance. One glance at it revealed Yin and Yang, illusion and reality, creation and time; it granted enlightenment as to what was law, what was Dao, and what was perfection.

Behind the three Heavenly Venerables, boundless purple qi stretched for thirty thousand li, forming purple radiance and azure clouds that blanketed the sky and blotted out the sun. Within them, the Dharma Images of the three Heavenly Venerables could faintly be seen, offering a glimpse of their heaven-piercing, earth-reaching might as rulers of the Dao.

"Your disciples greet the Heavenly Venerables and welcome their arrival!"

The Immortal Lords and True Lords of the Eastern Heaven Daoist Sect had already fallen to their knees in unison. The collective cry of the Upper Three Realms' immortal true cultivators was like thunder, as streaks of clear radiance and Xuanji shot into the heavens and shook the cosmos, stirring wave after wave of shock throughout the ninefold heavenly