Luotian Grand Offering (Part Two)

"We respectfully invite the True Lord to commence the rite!"

The hundreds of thousands of Jinhua Mountain cultivators bowed in unison.

For a time, the azure and black colors coiling above the venue that spanned a thousand li rose and fell like tides. Strands of fate converged atop the Ninefold Mystic Platform, then transformed into azure-black currents that rippled outward. Gradually, mist and haze filled the air, as though heaven and earth had only just been divided.

At the same time, the azure Heavenly Star within Jinhua Mountain suddenly shot out countless streams of light, each one streaking toward the provinces and commanderies surrounding Jinhua Mountain.

Every Daoist temple in every city throughout the dozen-odd provinces and commanderies surrounding Jinhua Mountain received the mystic light sent from the mountain. Immediately afterward, pillars of light shot into the sky from each of the hundreds of temples scattered throughout those regions, forming an enormous canopy that projected the scene of the Luotian Grand Offering below.

Within city after city, cultivators, ghosts and gods, aristocratic families, and common folk all raised their heads toward the light screens manifested in the heavens, watching that vast ritual ground which covered several thousand li.

In but an instant, a beam of heavenly light shone forth from amid the floating azure-black currents at the center of the ritual ground. It pierced several thousand li, pointing straight at Jinhua Mountain's summit, at the clear Heavenly Star hanging high above the peaks.

It was as if heavenly light had become a road, or auspicious clouds a bridge. In a daze, a figure had already emerged from that azure sun, walking toward them along a rainbow path of clouds and sunset glow.

The Daoist wore a Four Symbols Green Lotus Crown, a Brilliant-Gold Eight Trigrams Robe, a Jade Silk Coiling-Dragon