"Majestic virtue shone with divine power, yin and yang turned, nurturing all things. In the dark and mysterious, beyond any name, one transcended calamity and attained eternal life. Riding clouds and driving hurricanes to the Supreme Purity, offering duckweed in sacrifice, bearing witness to sincere hearts..."
Nearly a thousand musicians in brilliant red auspicious garments played a grand, stirring melody, praying for Heaven's will and displaying its sacred majesty.
Amid the resounding hymns of the palace, the newly enthroned Emperor Lord, Long Yuanshou, clad from head to toe in a Black Dragon Robe, ascended the steps one by one and reached the Heaven Altar. He held the Imperial Seal of the State in both hands, his expression solemn.
At a quarter past the hour of the Snake, Long Yuanshou climbed the ninety-nine steps to the altar platform. Holding the Imperial Seal of the State, he offered it toward Heaven from afar and asked Heaven's will three times. Auspicious Rain then fell from the sky. The musicians immediately looked delighted and began playing again, as though Long Yuanshou had truly received Heaven's favor.
But just as the music began, a body in brilliant red auspicious garments suddenly plummeted from the sky with a thud. The Auspicious Rain, which had fallen for only a few breaths, stopped dead.
Needless to say, the corpse was the Divine Master who had been hiding among the clouds, making it rain.
At such an auspicious hour, a corpse had fallen from the heavens. More than ten thousand people in attendance froze in shock.
Then a man in a green robe descended from the sky. His lean, steely figure and cold gaze made him impossible to forget.
The green-robed man landed on the Heaven Altar and stared straight at Long Yuanshou, ten zhang away. "A filthy man