After this meeting, Xiang Yang did not return to Yanxi Commandery. Instead, he settled down in Yong City, ready at any moment for the contest over the position of Divine Constable.
According to Chai Jun, in as little as one month or as long as three, the Chief Constable of the Divine Constable Gate would issue an official notice, summoning the Purple Robe Chief Constables from the Nineteen Provinces who were qualified to vie for the position of Divine Constable to First Line of Heaven for a martial contest.
First Line of Heaven lay north of the Imperial Capital of the Divine Land, a perilous natural pass of utter extremity.
To its east stood the White Tiger Army's camp, one hundred thousand strong under the Great Zhou military. Within were lofty mountains and rolling ranges piled atop one another. In ancient times, the world-suppressing great sect Tongtian Dao had once founded its school here. It was every inch a blessed mountain and spiritual land.
Later, the immensely flourishing and powerful Tongtian Dao defied heaven's will, aiding Great Gan in resisting the founding ancestor's royal army. Defeated in battle, the entire sect was wiped out and its lineage severed. First Line of Heaven thus became ownerless land.
Later still, when the founding ancestor enfeoffed the realm, he established the Divine Constable Gate to restrain the martial world's power. In the end, he bestowed First Line of Heaven upon the Divine Constable Gate as its base, making it the headquarters of the Divine Constable Gates throughout the Nineteen Provinces.
It was said that First Line of Heaven held seventy-two lofty towers and no fewer than two hundred halls and pavilions. One could ride horses and light lanterns within it; its grandeur was extraordinary.
Within were seven experts who had attained the Dao,