Yang Huai also saw the phenomenon overhead. The Heaven Gate appeared above him, auspicious clouds and radiant qi emerging around it. It truly resembled the legendary sight of the Heaven Gate opening and an immortal decree descending.
He simply did not know which Heavenly Emperor's residence had issued the decree.
As Yang Huai knew, there was more than one kind of immortal decree in Heaven. Apart from the decree of the Central Primordial Ancestor Sage Emperor, there were also the decrees of the Five Directional Heavenly Emperors and the decrees of the Ten Sacred Venerables.
Each kind of decree came from a different source.
Their weight also differed.
Whichever decree one accepted usually represented the faction one belonged to, though that was not absolute.
For instance, the Ten Sacred Venerables represented the ten venerables of the Purple Palace Celestial Realm. They represented sects, but they also possessed the authority to appoint immortal gods, and their status was no less than that of the Six Imperial Heavenly Emperors.
The Daoists below could not help erupting into commotion. Their gazes rose in unison toward the sky, their faces filled with shock.
After Dao Ningzi swiftly arranged the altar, the Heaven Gate overhead finally opened completely. Deep within it, a myriad zhang of resplendent light seemed to emerge, on the verge of forming a rainbow bridge.
Boundless, majestic heavenly might flowed forth from within.
At the same time, a vast heavenly voice fell straight into the ears of Yang Huai, who stood at the head of the crowd in the square below.
"I have heard that in Azure Talisman there is a man of virtue whose virtue shelters the firmament, whose Dao aids all beings. His name is Tai Baizi. He has cultivated the Dao for three hundred and nine years, inherited the