Eastern Sovereign Taiyi?
Had Eastern Sovereign Taiyi descended?
Shen Le strained to look, but within moments, the glare had tears streaming down his face.
Although he had faced gods before, Lady Xiang, Lord Xiang sleeping within the crystal, and the Dragon Lord had all taken pains to rein in their presence and power.
Otherwise, Shen Le could never have withstood the Dragon Lord's might when he went all out during their crossing of the Heaven-Earth Barrier. Even a glancing touch would probably have killed him!
Besides, the person within this memory of the Chime Bells was not Shen Le himself, but the young shaman named "Le."
For a mortal to gaze directly upon a god and suffer only streaming tears rather than instant blindness probably meant that the gods of Chu were good-tempered and protected their people-
Shen Le was not the only one looking up. The high shaman trembled all over, tears pouring down his face.
With the utmost devotion and a profound sense of honor, he sang the sacrificial hymn aloud and prostrated himself before that mass of pure white light.
Behind him, the shamans, the Chu Kingdom's ministers and soldiers, and even the envoys from other states who had come for the alliance meeting and ceremony bowed down in waves, like fields of ripe rice drooping beneath the blazing sun.
The pure white light hung motionless in the sky. From the other masses of light, streams of radiance, almost tangible, descended from the heavens.
The blazing white of lightning, the deep blue of waters, the emerald green of life, the blue-green of mountains and rivers-they intertwined and mingled as though alive, showering everyone around the altar.
Still more divine radiance flowed into the newly cast Chime Bells, which were ringing out. Hum.
Every bell released a long,