Choosing a Common Sovereign of the Realm

Wang Ping discovered Seventh Prince of Linshui Prefecture's name on this sacrificial list, something the Daoist Scripture Hall had not included before. Taiyan Sect's True Lord was still True Monarch Huishan, while there were two Prefects listed below him: Daoist Master Chongyuan, Li Miaolin's master, and Daoist Master Zhongde.

This Daoist Master Zhongde was a fallen Taiyan cultivator, the Great-Grandmaster of Daoist Cheng Xi's lineage. Wang Ping could not understand why he was to be worshipped, but he could only suppress the question and seek the answer himself.

Afterward, more than a hundred Third Realm cultivators began constructing the altar according to the order on the list. The two Saints naturally came first, followed by the True Lords of the Five Sects of Mystic Gate and the Two Sects of Heavenly Gates, then the Demon Race and the Star Gods, with the various Prefects last.

Wang Ping noticed that True Lord Yuanwu was ranked just below the seven True Lords of the Mystic Sect and Heaven Sect, in eighth place, while the Dragon Lord stood at the very head of all the True Lords.

This worship ceremony was personally presided over by Wang Ping. Besides the hundred-plus Third Realm cultivators, more than seven hundred Second Realm cultivators had come from all across Central Province, while Immortal Realm cultivators numbered over a thousand. Qi practitioners occupied nearly half of Zhonghui County Town.

When Wang Ping's prayer echoed between Heaven and Earth, everyone knelt in unison. The city of more than a million people fell utterly silent at that moment, its fortune linked to the mountains surrounding Thousand Wood Temple, making the scene incomparably solemn and awe-inspiring.

After the prayer ended, Wang Ping led the crowd in the grand rite of three kowtows and three bows.

Once the ceremony was complete, Wang