Purple Heaven Old Council Seat Shadow: Who Assigned the Interception Sect the Life-Sacrificing Seat?

[Purple Heaven Old Council Seat Shadow] hung above the Investiture Table.

It had no palaces.

No voices of the Dao.

Only a row of indistinct old seats, like a layer of cold ash left behind when the calamity had been debated all those years ago.

The ashen shadow was faint.

So faint that, without the Clear Gate Register pinning it down, it could scatter into the depths of the Investiture Table at any moment.

Yet the instant it appeared, the three lines of Lingxiao, Kunlun, and Mount Sumeru did more than pull taut.

They seemed to have been dragged back to something even earlier.

This was not some faction reaching out on the spur of the moment.

These were old traces of who had sat where, and who had borne which designation, when the table of the investiture of the gods was first laid out.

Master Tongtian said nothing.

But behind the Clear Gate Register, the Shangqing Sword Intent had already lowered.

The Ten Thousand Immortals of Golden Turtle Island fell silent as well.

This was not an investigation into a seal.

Nor was it an investigation into a supplementary record.

This inquiry reached into the original seating structure of the investiture of the gods.

Zhao Xuan did not rush to write.

He first looked at the old council seat shadow.

"We will not ask who sat in the palace."

"First, we ask how these seats were arranged."

The Vermilion Brush descended.

[How did the Purple Heaven Old Council Seat Shadow connect to the Jade Emptiness Tribulation Register?]

The question took form.

Ashen energy churned over the old council seat shadow, and several lines of fragmentary traces surfaced.

[The sages deliberated on the calamity.]

[The Xuan Sect established the order.]

[The Three Teachings divided the designations.]

[One teaching sacrificed lives.]