Inner Scenery.
Thunderclouds gathered and surged. Above the nine heavens, the Mystic Capital settled into place, and the thunder city manifested. The many spirit soldiers and immortal generals, celestial troops and mighty warriors, Thunder Palace lightning mothers, divine envoys and exalted officials within the [Heavenly Canopy Demon-Slaying Diagram] all took their places within this vast thunder city.
The [Mysterious Capital Thunder City] was the source of the great thunder law. Whispers in the mortal world rang like thunder in heaven; hearts deceiving themselves in darkened chambers lay exposed before divine eyes like lightning. Nothing escaped its scrutiny, nothing escaped its grasp.
Yang thunder and yin thunder, the celestial pivot and the workings of earth, were all embodied in this thunder city. Divine thunder carried the punishment of bodily dissolution, firmament thunder bore the soul-rending constitution, and shock thunder occupied the center, dispensing no punishment but adjudicating yin and yang.
After nearly a year in seclusion, he had finally formed the rudiments of this thunder city, formally beginning his cultivation of this divine ability.
Riding Ink Qilin, Xu Xuan occupied the highest seat in the thunder city. He raised his hand and closed it around empty air. The faint text of a law manifested, then gradually dispersed, borne up by clear qi toward the Dao realm.
The substance of this law was not complicated: [The sun rises and the moon sets, each keeping its appointed time].
The Dao realm had never distinguished between day and night. The first great law Xu Xuan promulgated established that distinction, requiring the few people dwelling within it to act according to the time.
Within the Shadow-Moon Pool, greater yin moonlight brimmed over. Clear spiritual radiance shone upon the cold-jade statue of the immortal maiden, connecting it to the heavens. A cold moon then appeared suspended