Nine Heavens, Gazing Cloud Platform!
In the span of a single day, an immense altar of majestic design, nine tiers high and spanning a thousand zhang in every direction, rose from the ground.
Exquisitely detailed reliefs covered the altar. It was divided into yin and yang. The places where one stepped were yin, carved with the sun, moon, and stars; flowers, birds, fish, and insects; fierce beasts, tigers, and leopards; as well as ancient Monster Beasts and primordial ferocity.
The altar steps were yang, carved with scenes of humanity sowing and harvesting millet, broomcorn millet, peppers, wheat, rice, and hemp; humanity raising oxen, horses, chickens, and geese; human priests leading warriors to hunt fierce beasts, tigers, and leopards; human sages leading humanity to tame waters and carve open mountains; and human warriors, drenched in blood, defending their homeland, charging forward one after another, dying without turning back!
Around the enormous altar stood Great Zhou's civil and military ministers. Led by Founding Chancellor Wang Meng, each wore the most solemn black court robes, held a court tablet, and stood quietly and respectfully, awaiting the auspicious hour.
The Great Zhou civil and military ministers gathered here today were not merely the founding generals and ministers who had returned to life alongside Founding Ancestor Ji Bang. They also included all civil and military officials of a certain rank who currently held official posts in Great Zhou's Luoyi.
Nearly three thousand civil and military officials stood in their respective places, dressed in court robes and wearing their seals.
Aside from those founding generals and ministers, there were not many powerful experts among Great Zhou's three thousand civil and military officials. Most were more capable in governing affairs than in combat.
Yet, not long after the three thousand Great Zhou civil and military officials gathered