That's About Enough (Yesterday's Update,)

The Mingjing Grand Ceremony proceeded in an orderly fashion.

Under An Jing's direction, the rites of offering to Heaven, offering to Earth, and sacrificing to the patriarchs of past generations all passed with exceptional smoothness. The Sky Mirror overhead no longer gathered all the light between heaven and earth, instead maintaining the brightness of dusk while projecting an image of Mingjing Mountain across the dome of the sky.

This enormous mirage—or rather, this enormous "reflection within a mirror"—was aimed at the martial arena before the Nine Halls of Dharma Transmission, like the largest movie screen imaginable.

Amid the cheers that tens of thousands of people could no longer suppress, the tense and thrilling covert exchanges among the various factions, and the eager gazes of the masses, An Jing spoke. "Make rich offerings to the Ancestral Spirits, that we may receive Heaven's favor; study and nurture the ancient methods, that we may teach those who come after."

"We of Mingjing's Nine Peaks have received the orthodox Dharma, to enlighten the myriad people; that the great sacrifices to our sect's patriarchs may never cease, and that the sacred path of the people of Chenli may never be cut off."

"What is inheritance? It is the great flourishing of enlightenment and the cultivation of those who come after. The disciples of our sect have spent ten years sharpening a sword; today, at last, they shall reveal its edge. Beneath the witness of the patriarchs of every generation, the Mingjing True Disciple Grand Competition now begins!"

As everyone knowledgeable understood, the True Disciple Grand Competition had initially been no more than a small event where several juniors sparred before Founder Jiankong during the rites to heaven and earth, testing the progress of their studies. Back then, Founder Jiankong would likely watch the two fight