The Marriage Red Cord circled through the air, transforming into two streaks of flowing light. One twined around Hong Jin's wrist, the other coiled around Princess Longji's fingertip. The twin cords intertwined, locked fast together, and formed a Marriage Dao Seal that would never part.
Hong Jin reined in the baleful aura of a battle general and shed the wretchedness of a captive, his posture tall and upright.
Half his life had been iron and blood, his proud bones ringing like steel. He had never imagined he would one day submit to Zhou, enter Xiqi, and marry an immortal maiden of the Heavenly Court.
Yet the decrees of the Heavenly Dao were clear and manifest. The red thread locked affection in place, and his Dao Heart had already submitted completely.
Princess Longji withdrew the cold, pure immortal might of an Immortal Official and slowly stepped forward, standing shoulder to shoulder with Hong Jin.
Immortal Light fell upon the two of them. Hong Jin's armor still carried the lingering authority of war, heroic and resolute; Longji's plain immortal dress shimmered with flowing radiance, holy beyond compare.
One was a martial immortal, the other a Heavenly Immortal. Their bond had been forged on the battlefield, their love decided amid blades and soldiers, becoming the most unusual marriage in the chaotic age of the Great Tribulation of Investiture of the Gods.
Elder Yuehe's voice rang like a great bell as he proclaimed the Heavenly Dao marriage contract:
"The Heavenly Dao is the matchmaker, and Yin Yang bears witness.
A tribulation bond is ended in the Mortal World; one heart is bound together upon the immortal path.
Hong Jin, Longji, today you are joined in marriage. Life and death share one covenant, the Great Dao returns to one destination, fortune and misfortune are borne