The Fusang Holy Maiden descended upon the Big Dipper Starfield!
The moment she appeared, the Purple Forbidden Enclosure collapsed into the Dipper's handle. The starry curtain tore open in nine layers of blood-red cloud, and the branches of a golden divine tree stretching from earth to heaven swayed, imbued with the boundless splendor of the sun's Dao.
Amid the infinite radiance of the Dao, countless branches cast an incomparably noble glow in her direction.
Within that glow, a beautiful woman appeared in the Big Dipper Starfield. She wore a phoenix crown and carried herself with regal grace.
Nine heavens of thunder cleared the way before her. The nine heads of the Kaiming Beast roared together, scarlet lightning fell like a giant axe, and a thousand steps of dark ice were forged from the sea of clouds. Across their surfaces flickered reflections of the rise and fall of the heavens.
The evening glow of the heavens paved an imperial road. Frost from the Jade Pool surged over it, freezing the Yangtze's raging waves into crystalline ice. Jade lingzhi, moonlit grass, and jade trees covered the ground in breathtaking splendor.
On either side of the imperial road stood thirty-six jade maidens in dark robes. Those on the left struck the Azure Heavens Chime Bells, whose peals drove away the miasma of the three calamities. Those on the right shook the Yellow Springs Soul-Shocking Bell, its soul-stirring waves forcing back the netherworld.
At the divine maiden's sides, the Vermilion Bird Holy Maiden stood guard.
Every part of the procession was magnificent and imposing, in keeping with the rites of humanity, overlord of the endless stars. It represented the consensus of humanity's mighty figures throughout the stars—something they had acknowledged.
That was consensus.
Even a stubborn stone, if acknowledged by humanity's mighty figures throughout