"First I used the water method to transform the Four Symbols; later I gathered the Three Calamities to walk beside me;"
"Upon ascension, I clearly beheld the meaning of disaster; I roamed all the heavens to seek the truth of the law;"
"Six sixty-year cycles dissolved, the tribulations passed; three flowers pierced the crown, five qi were complete;"
"When the tribulation was destroyed, I transformed and attained the Dao of the Twin Principles; aided by Yuchen, I was named Qingxuan."
As the clear Dao voice rang out, within the seventh layer of the heavenly palace, the dharma image manifested above the Judicial Heavenly Lord Mansion seemed to wake completely from a great dream. After stretching lazily, that endless Azure Profound Lotus Sea turned into drifting Azure Profound Feather Rainbow and scattered in all directions, and the dharma image also broke apart with it, vanishing without a trace.
And in the rear hall of the Judicial Heavenly Lord Mansion, the multicolored radiance that had originally filled the entire great hall had already receded without a trace. Wind, thunder, water, and fire withdrew to the realms of the four directions, while yin-yang and tribulation-extinction sank into the course of emptiness and reality.
Inside the great hall, among jade pillars gilded with gold and inlaid with silver, patterned with dragons and painted with tigers, amid clusters of lamps and rippling starlight, Jiang Sheng let out a long, lazy stretch upon the prayer mat, then slowly rose. As Jiang Sheng stood, the palace doors opened on their own, revealing the Seven-Layered Heavenly Palace once more before him.
Gazing at the stars of the four directions and looking upon the suns and moons of all the heavens, Jiang Sheng brushed away the dust of five hundred years from his body. As Jiang Sheng stepped out,