Mount Tai.
It was the season of the Awakening of Insects.
Jade Emperor Peak and the surrounding peaks were all grounds for sacrificing to Heaven, a legacy of Emperor Xuan. Thus, none who erected altars to worship deities could approach this place, or their spirit tablets would topple straight toward the Wu Earth Inscription.
The ritual grounds lay on a Spirit Peak to the east, named Abundant Life, the former site of the Azure Emperor Monastery-in other words, Fuxian's ruins-not too far from the Bohai Sea. Fuyao had been the Lesser Yang Immortal Lord's second disciple, once the master of Origin Wood and concurrently the Azure Emperor of the east. No place could have been more suitable for Seeking the Golden Position.
With Abundant Life Peak at their center, the surrounding peaks held a total of one thousand three hundred and sixty altars, divided into three groups to perform Calamity-Exorcism, Refining and Deliverance, and Petitioning the Dipper respectively. Earth qi rose, water and fire transformed, and thunderbolts intertwined.
The Upper Firmament Dao Lineage had dispatched roughly three thousand disciples here, ranging from Fetal Breath to Foundation Establishment. Cultivation had not been the criterion; familiarity with the ritual procedures had. Thus, most of those selected were white-haired old Daoists.
The main altar for Petitioning the Dipper stood atop Abundant Life Peak, presided over by True Person Zhou You, with Ominous Portent True Person of the Great Scarlet First Monastery assisting him.
Xu Fayan sat quietly beside the ritual altar, his expression solemn. He had changed into an azure ceremonial robe. The sinister strangeness in his yellow eyes had vanished completely, replaced by a measure of serenity.
Having entered Mount Tai, he suppressed his own nature. Revealing too much of his aura in this Wu Earth Sacred Ground would only be asking