The gate stood wide open, overflowing with radiance.
"Mystic Lord..."
Someone's voice echoed through the heavens, carrying both doubt and astonishment.
Those called Mystic Lords had to perform four achievements: expounding, manifestation, dissipation, and concealment. Their Dao lay in Wonder and Constancy.
The one before them did not seem to have performed any of these four.
[Revelation]
Yet heaven and earth had acknowledged him.
Seeking the Golden Position and attaining it, proclaiming it to heaven and earth, was like receiving proof within the Great Dao. If the position had been gained illegitimately, a tribulation of usurpation would still descend at this moment. One careless move, and he would be cast down!
His authority, his cause and effect, and his history had been established. Thus he received the name:
[Mystic Lord of Nonaction, Dao-Awakening, and Great Abundance]
Between heaven and earth, creation emerged.
At the Cold Gate of the Northern Sea, faint light shone brilliantly. An immortal tree woven of violet and white rose to support the sky, connecting the thunderbolts of heaven and earth. On Kunlun's summit, Green Lotus bloomed, its sword intent piercing the firmament before plunging into the gate in an instant. In the lands of the Eastern Yi, the thunder marsh filled once more, wind and thunder howled, and vast mysterious yellow qi poured from Mount Tai. Merit descended.
The spirit monsters walked step by step out of darkness and ignorance, as though waking from a dream. Emotions and desires they had once struggled to comprehend emerged, and their missing cause and effect was restored. One after another, they bowed to heaven, tears streaming without end.
Throughout the world, those with spirit roots and wisdom in the Dao increased in number. Dao arts and mystic methods once difficult to deduce yielded results, and