I wish to follow His Majesty in conquering Cangtu!
Reverence for the monarch outweighed faith in the gods.
But refusal was already the limit.
As a "God-Favored One," rejecting the [Wolf Totem] meant rejecting his own ultimate destiny.
The resplendent Dharma Guardian Wolf God, mighty enough to hold up the heavens, lost everything in an instant and became a cripple!
However he had swelled, so too did he shrivel.
Na Liang's slight body curled before Danbi Terrace, unable even to bear the chainmail on his body any longer. The armor had become shackles. The pair of Star Fate Sky Wolf Claws on his hands were mountains he could never lift.
He was pinned and locked to the ground!
But how could war end before one side had been wiped out?
The great deity was naturally unwilling to be stripped of all heavenly authority. Watching "Huna Ba" stubbornly destroy itself, He raised His deeply wrinkled forefinger again and, amid the rapidly collapsing divine radiance, plucked out a wisp and pressed down a divine seal with seeming slowness and true urgency—
"In the name of [Cangtu], I invoke the divine will and summon the one who walks in Heaven's stead... Mirror of Heaven!"
Across the boundless grasslands, the god was Heaven.
Those who walked in Heaven's stead were Cangtu's divine envoys!
Throughout the history of the grasslands, the most famous Cangtu divine envoy was naturally Minhar, who had gone to spread the teachings in the Central Regions and never returned.
And the first Cangtu divine envoy had been the Prairie Goddess. She left behind the divine mirror that reflected Her own light upon the grasslands, where it became the grasslands' largest freshwater lake—the Mirror of Heaven.
This Mirror of Heaven could be called the mother lake of the grassland people, crucial both