The thousand-zhang-tall white jade divine statue, crowned with a halo and draped in seventy-two colors, was none other than the statue of the Primordial Great Heavenly King worshiped by the Daluo Sect.
Strictly speaking, the Xuanming Heavenly Venerable worshiped by the Profound Bright Church was merely an eighth-rank powerhouse who had founded Xuanming. The Primordial Great Heavenly King, however, was a Divine King explicitly recorded in all kinds of ancient texts. No powerhouse in this world could compare to him.
From that perspective, the Daluo Sect's claim of inheriting the legacy of the Primordial Great Heavenly King placed it far, far above the inheritances of the other sects in the Nine Provinces.
Five hundred years later, Gao Xian saw this statue of the Primordial Great Heavenly King again, and he could not help but feel deeply moved.
Everything that had happened at the Nine Provinces Assembly felt as though it had taken place only yesterday. Ru Dian, who had passed on, naturally surfaced from the depths of his memories as well.
Zhi Zhen stood silently at his side. She could sense the complex emotions within Gao Xian.
At the Nine Provinces Assembly five hundred years ago, all those in attendance had been in the full bloom of youth, each harboring ambitions that soared into the clouds. Five hundred years had passed; looking back upon that assembly now, one could not help but sigh with emotion.
So very much had happened over those five hundred years... Zhi Zhen's state of mind had changed enormously as well.
Dao Hong Dao Venerable, standing atop the high altar, had no such abundance of sentiment. Over tens of thousands of years, he had seen far too much.
He said to Zhi Zhen and Gao Xian below, "The central restrictions of the Nine Provinces Dharma Domain