When the auspicious day Shi Feiyang had chosen arrived, he donned the bright yellow Nine-Dragon Immortal Robe wreathed in myriad clouds, set the Azure Heaven Sun-Moon Crown upon his head, and put on the Five Sacred Mountains Cloud-Sea Boots. First, atop the Altar City on Copper Coconut Island, he led the immortals and Myriad Monsters in a rally to swear their resolve. He also wrote an "Ascension Memorial," explaining what he intended to do and why, then burned it with true fire, sending it to Haotian Shangdi.
Once he had given notice, he pointed the Nine Heavens Primordial Yang Ruler toward the sky and declared in a ringing voice, "Set out! Ascend! Onward to Spirit Void!"
As his words fell, the Mystic-Demon Shuttles in the three hundred and sixty shuttle shafts encircling the base of Heaven Beyond Divine Mountain ignited simultaneously. Dense grand void fiendfire blasted outward, striking the surrounding ring of aurora fire. The flames illuminated and reacted with one another, revealing even more dazzling colors.
The colors twisted and danced, flashing at tremendous speed, revealing countless images of mountains, rivers, trees, flowers, and grasses, along with people tilling fields, little deer grazing in forests, giant whales sporting in the ocean waves, and many-clawed monstrous fish hauling enormous logs up mountains. There were also immortals battling with magic, soaring into the sky on flying swords, exchanging volleys of divine thunder, discussing the Dao beneath trees, and refining pills in the mountains.
Some were events that had actually occurred on Heaven Beyond Divine Mountain over the years, all recorded by the aurora fire, though only as shattered fragments. Under the furious bombardment of grand void fiendfire, these fragments of memory flashed forth again and recombined into countless new "stories," some comical and others wholly unexpected.
Heaven Beyond Divine Mountain was