"The Central Heavenly Prison is directly under the Son of Heaven's command and belongs to the Three Offices of the Imperial City. Its prisoners are all major criminals of the empire—those burdened with accumulated sins, who have violated the law and cannot be saved except through punishment. In its deepest reaches, the most evil existences in history are sealed."
"Back then, the Three Veins entrusted Grand Ancestor with the responsibility for All-Under-Heaven, charging him to suppress it with the nation's might."
"Grand Ancestor built Tianjing, established the central state, and created the institutions of the nation. What a magnificent achievement!"
"They once said that the Divine Continent and Cang Sea were all central lands, with the Gate of Ten Thousand Demons as the national gate, personally guarded by the Son of Heaven. How grand and heroic!"
"The evils of all ages, the fiends beyond heaven, are all beneath Tianjing City. This is why Tianjing stands foremost in All-Under-Heaven, and why the Central Empire is called 'Central'!"
"The grand undertaking of the Six Directions was obstructed once by Yang, and a second time by Chu. Once, the five states gathered at Tianjing; now, we have suffered another military defeat at Cang Sea!"
"Has the support of our Daoist Sect's Three Veins for the Central Empire ever waned for even a moment, declined for even a day?"
"The governing authority of every prefecture returned to the center—we endured it. Ritual, music, punitive expeditions, and war all issued from the center—we supported it. They wanted cultivation methods, Dao treasures, troops for their campaigns—we provided them all. They wanted institutional reform, a stronger military, a flourishing Dao—we complied with everything!"
"And now they have even stripped away Yujing Mountain's army—Zong Dezhen certainly deserved to die, but whose name died with him: the head of