Black Crown, Silver Robe, Precious Jade Belt; Immortal Peak, Ceremonial Carriage, True Disciple

"Taishang, Qingwei, Dejing, Xuan; Yuanshi, Yuhao, Dao, Ling, Zhen."

"Since the Penglai Patriarch founded our lineage at the beginning of this cycle, Penglai has passed through forty-three thousand years. Your generation has reached precisely the fourteenth character."

In the main hall of Tianshu Peak, Xuanche Immortal Monarch's voice was gentle and calm. Yet within that Giant Palace of Immortals, a thousand zhang high and vast beyond measure, it carried a sweeping majesty.

Pei Jinglian, Zhang Qiao, Wang Cunyang, Zhou Huo, Jiang Jinyue, Ye Ningchu, Lin Qinghe, Xiao Jingyue, Lu Xin, Lin Qingnong, Ding Chan, Gu Yuanhai, and Qian Yun stood respectfully in the hall. On either side rose columns of azure jade stone, inlaid with gilded bronze coiling dragons and adorned with vermilion clouds and waves.

Each column was thick enough to take dozens of people to encircle. They soared straight up like giant trees holding up the sky, their ranks disappearing into the clouds. Beyond them stood screens, incense burners, and bronze crane candlesticks, amid glowing sunset clouds, shining dew, and waves of immortal mist.

Three hundred and sixty-five luminous pearls were set into the vaulted ceiling. Each was ten zhang across, scattered overhead like stars across the heavens. At the center hung two hundred-zhang gemstones, one red and one silver, like Yin and Yang converging, the sun and moon shining together. Around them lay countless gleaming beads and pieces of green jade, some the size of fists, some like fruit, others as large as millstones. Arrayed close together, they shone like a sea of stars spanning the heavens.

Deep in the hall, Xuanche Immortal Monarch sat upon a Cloud Bed adorned with coiling dragons and rolling auspicious clouds. He wore the Heavenly Wind Jade Radiance Crown and Divine Wind Three-Profundities Robe. Behind his head, a clear Dao wheel