Luotian Grand Offering (Part Two)

"Heaven and earth shine bright; we recite the mystic chapters. Offered to the four quarters, they are revealed through true yang."

"Heaven and earth shine bright; we recite the mystic chapters. Reaching the eight wastelands, they are revealed through jade images."

Dao chants reverberated between heaven and earth, while Hua Guang flowed and turned, illuminating the stellar sea and the cycle of the heavens.

Amid the clear, ringing Dao chants, Jiang Sheng took another step and ascended the seventh tier of the mystic platform.

"The immortal path drifts and fades; the Divine Path stands solemn and manifest. Mystic and profound, Mingzhen's Six Images."

"The human path stretches vast; the ghost path trembles in fear. Sudden joy, sudden delight—only the Dao endures in everlasting prosperity."

At that moment, atop every stellar position corresponding to the Eight Trigrams Grand Formation on the ritual grounds, and above every divine tablet, the phantom image of a ghost god emerged.

These ghost gods had been incorporated into Azure Profound Temple's system and had formed Dharma pacts with the cultivators of Jinhua Mountain, sharing glory and disgrace alike. They were also the ghost gods whose names would be inscribed upon the Deity-Rank Ghost-God Diagram during this Luotian Grand Offering.

As they appeared, they joined the cultivators with whom they had formed Dharma pacts and chanted in unison:

"Mystic and profound, Mingzhen's Six Images."

"Sudden joy, sudden delight—only the Dao endures in everlasting prosperity!"

As the ghost gods appeared, wisps upon wisps of incense-fire essence gathered and surged into the sky.

It first pierced through the Azure Mystic Eight Trigrams above the nine-tiered mystic platform, causing the already immense Yin-Yang Eight Trigrams to tremble once more, spreading in all directions to blanket heaven and earth. Then it continued skyward, piercing the stellar formation across the vault of