"Immortal Sect Banyan Tree Television Station:"
"Today's report: On January 1, Year 15000, Great Sun Heavenly Lord, a councilor with distinguished military achievements and honors to his name, returned to the Immortal Sect Homeworld. Deputy Governor Canghai came to welcome the hero who had opened up 155 lesser worlds in the Horn Nether Domain for the Immortal Sect."
"Hundreds of millions of citizens lined the streets to welcome him. Their cheers shook the planet, sending ripples through the atmosphere... Great Sun Heavenly Lord has returned to the Homeworld to succeed Canghai as deputy governor and shoulder the responsibility of guarding it."
"The handover ceremony is now underway, and we are broadcasting it live..."
It was the Immortal Sect's national holiday. Tens of billions of citizens watched through various devices without blinking, witnessing the transfer of the Homeworld's deputy governorship and access authority to the Central Array-Spirit Computer.
Many citizens found the occasion a novelty and stared without blinking.
A change of deputy governor was unfamiliar to them. For 99.9 percent of Immortal Sect Citizens, Canghai had always been the Homeworld's deputy governor. He had held the post for over a thousand years, through generation after generation. They had thought it would never change.
In the Immortal Sect's ceremonial hall.
Dressed in formal Daoist robes, Canghai held the deputy governor's great seal in both hands and waited amid solemn ceremonial music.
A moment later, the music softened.
A boy in formal Daoist robes walked slowly up to him. He was short, looked fifteen or sixteen, and still had a trace of childishness on his face. He took the great seal from Canghai's hands.
"I swear..."
He began to speak, his voice clear and crisp.
"..."
Many citizens who had been watching the inauguration with admiration froze.
"He's that young?"
"Is this