Outside Bianjing City, Eternal Heaven's military camp stretched for dozens of miles. Banners snapped in the wind, blotting out the sky and sun.
Three hundred thousand armored soldiers stood in grim formation, their weapons gleaming cold. A murderous air surged straight to the heavens.
It was nearly the hour of the boar, yet the sky grew brighter, as though it were broad daylight.
No sun or moon could be seen above. Only the phantoms of four Heaven Gates hung high among the clouds, shedding ten thousand rays of light.
The four portals defied description. Hidden within the clouds, they sent down misty spiritual energy like rainbow bridges, sketching illusory jade palaces and endless immortal mountains.
It was breathtakingly beautiful!
A huge white elephant wearing a jeweled crown carried a carriage beneath a gilded canopy. Four people sat inside.
"This is the Ascension Platform. Nothing written of it in the histories comes within a fraction of the shock of seeing it with your own eyes."
The Demon Master spoke leisurely. "Because of this Ascension Platform, even the sun cannot set."
Beside the Demon Master sat Lotus Pond, Dugu Sheng, and Buddha Child Bukong. There was no one else.
The newly enthroned khan of Eternal Heaven had come to pay his respects moments earlier, but he had not even qualified for a seat. After a brief report, he had bowed and withdrawn.
Dugu Sheng asked curiously, "Jiangxian, the khan of Eternal Heaven is the ruler of a nation, after all. Are we not going too far in treating him so lightly?"
Even the Great Sui's Three Truths Lineage, powerful as the sect was, had never gone so far.
Xu Jiangxian smiled. "The Demon Sect raised the Golden Clan of Eternal Heaven with its own hands. The khan who has now taken the