Great Jin Immortal Dynasty, 311th year of Tai'an, fifteenth day of the eighth month, mid-autumn. The sky was high and the air crisp.
According to the date determined by the Great Jin Immortal Dynasty's Directorate of Celestial Observation, the Immortal Dynasty's twenty-first province, Liu Province, would establish its cauldron and found the province today.
In the central district of Liu Province City, the Heavenly Altar and Earth Temple originally built by the East Sea King, Jiang Mao, and the others had long since been rebuilt. Their scale had expanded more than tenfold, becoming even more proper and magnificent.
Before the Heavenly Altar and Earth Temple, incense tables, offering tables, incense candles, sacrificial offerings, and other such items had already been laid out in worship for many days.
Below the incense and offering tables, dozens of prayer cushions had been arranged according to the Immortal Dynasty's rites and protocols.
Following the guidance of the Ministry of Rites officials sent by the Immortal Dynasty, Liang Zhaohuang led the family disciples in sitting cross-legged upon the cushions, paying respects and conducting sacrifices here for a full seven days.
Viewing stands had been erected in all four directions. The various clans and aristocratic families, along with East Sea cultivators who had come to observe the ceremony, had all taken their seats by now.
The scene was solemn and majestic. No one dared make the slightest noise.
At the hour of the Dragon that day, a Ministry of Rites official presiding over the ceremony raised his voice. "In the 311th year of Tai'an, Great Jin Immortal Dynasty, on the fifteenth day of the eighth month, at the hour of the Dragon, the ceremony for Liu Province to establish its cauldron now begins. We respectfully invite the imperial edict!"
These Ministry of Rites officials who presided