From the high vault, one could see the galloping roads, all converging into a single line across ten thousand miles.
River Viewing Terrace was like a pearl set into the riverbank. The galloping roads that drew in from every direction resembled the pearl's radiance, spreading out in silken threads.
The Long River was, naturally, like a dragon.
Yao Fu of Dragon Gate Academy stood with his hands behind his back amid the clouds. Seeing the prodigies of this age, countless as carp crossing a river, swimming upstream from different tributaries and gathering at this foremost River Viewing Terrace in the world... it was as though he were witnessing fish leaping through the Dragon Gate.
A swell of heroic feeling inevitably rose within him.
A small Rites Jade Tablet hung at his waist, helping him regulate the four seasons and set the twenty-four solar terms in order.
This treasure was azure in color. It was Dragon Gate Academy's mountain-suppressing treasure, a cave-heaven treasure implement.
It had been refined by Jade Tower Treasure Tablet Heaven, ranked twenty-second among the minor cave-heavens. Its name was "Azure Jade Tablet," also known as the "Rites Jade Tablet."
It was one of the Six Rites Jade, the jade of rites for the east.
At the same time, it was the only one among the Six Rites Jade that had truly been forged by refining a cave-heaven! The rest were transformed from ritual systems, manifested through cultivation, and known as "treasures akin to cave-heavens."
They said that Li Tian's [Azure Jade] was foremost among the Six Rites Jade, worn at the waist of the current Rites Master, Li Hengzhi. But historically speaking, [Azure Jade Tablet] had been the first Rites Jade ever refined.
In truth, it had been a treasure implement personally forged by the Legalist Ancestor