Through countless kalpas, Canluona dared not claim to have seen every noteworthy divine ability and method within and beyond the True Realm, but it had seen ninety-nine percent of them.
It had just found that black-backed scroll inexplicably familiar. Now that the Treasure Proclamation had reached its ears, how could it still fail to understand?
Gouchen Emperor's Command!
Myriad Gods Chart!
As the Treasure Proclamation declared, the might displayed by the Faceless Dharma Form belonged to Gouchen Palace Emperor Great Emperor, one of the "Four Sovereigns." He commanded the myriad gods and presided over warfare and slaughter. Whenever Shangqing went to war abroad, he took command, wielding the Myriad Gods Chart to set the laws and discipline in order. Star lords and gods alike obeyed his commands with awe.
It could be said to represent the highest level of Shangqing's path of conquest.
As the praise of the Treasure Proclamation rang out, the star lords, gods, mighty men, and Dao Soldiers locked in a deadly struggle with the Outer Dao devils sent their military Baleful Intent surging into the starry sky. The Three Enclosures and Four Symbols seemed to tremble without rest.
Such heavenly might was, in truth, secondary.
The Treasure Proclamations of the Three Pure Ones and Four Sovereigns had taken rough form in ancient times. They were revised and perfected time and again, until Patriarch Ge of Shangqing used "Eternal Azure Sky" to forcefully dispel the mysterious sects' fashion for "nothingness," setting matters right at their source. Only then did they take their final form, unchanged for more than ten kalpas thereafter.
The principles and doctrines they contained, the cultivation and divine methods they displayed, were unfathomably profound. They had been passed down through the generations within the mysterious sects and had taken deep root in people's hearts.