"That one's arrangements?"
Jiang Li's eyes filled with astonishment. He looked again at the figure seated above, seemingly convinced now.
During Great Zhou, Azure Child had emerged and taught the Dao to a cultivator surnamed Wang. From this had come Eastern Radiance's Sublime Majesty, the foundation of Purple Gold.
"According to the patriarch of our lineage, this one once held a Lesser Yang retainer position, then attained the fruit position of clear."
Azure Child had attained clear qi, thus bringing forth Azure Heaven to correspond to the Nine Hells, allowing grotto-heavens to hang higher in the Great Void, farther from the red dust. This alone showed the loftiness of that attainment.
Seeing that his words had worked, Tiantuo prepared to offer more evidence, so that the two Upper Firmament cultivators would no longer doubt this place's connection to Eastern Radiance.
He resonated with the seal script, his aura manifesting outward as yang qi began to arise.
As [Eastern Radiance's Sublime Majesty] began to resonate with his nature and life, all manner of visions appeared: the changes of the six expansions, the workings of the central mechanism, and the unfolding mysteries of Lesser Yang.
"I am the essence of Lesser Yang, Dij u of the six expansions. I fell in the battle of the Eastern Sea that year, sending my flesh into Eastern Radiance while my true spirit escaped into Mysterious Heaven."
"Dij u?"
Though Jiang Li did not understand what the other meant, he could dimly sense the weight of those two words. He asked doubtfully, "Our lineage records that the first Lesser Yang bore the exalted title [Mystic Origin Primordial Ancestor Dao Radiance Immortal Lord], and was also called [Di Shaoyang], [Eastern King Duke], and [Wood Duke]..."
"Indeed. Di signifies the first and the beginning, as well as an