Blue Star, Easternmost Immortal Mountain.
Without warning, the sky split open.
It was not a single crack. The entire firmament was torn into thousands of pieces. More than a hundred figures, so terrifying that divine sense could not even describe them, stepped into this world like gods.
Purple radiance stretched across thirty thousand miles, dyeing the sky a dazzling purple and gold. Space shuddered, and enormous golden lotuses bloomed out of thin air, showering down upon the world.
Sacred chants of the Great Dao echoed between heaven and earth.
"I am a disciple of Guang Chengzi of the Chan Teachings..."
"I am Daoist Duobao of Jiejiao..."
"I am Subhuti of the Western Teachings..."
More than a hundred mighty voices rang out at once, making the eardrums of Blue Star's hundreds of billions of living beings ache.
"By decree of the Sages, we shall establish sanctuaries in this world today and accept disciples far and wide. Regardless of origins or aptitude, all shall be taught!"
As their voices faded, more than a hundred immortal mountains, each a hundred thousand feet high, rose from the ground, with immortal energy cascading down them like waterfalls.
Blue Star fell silent for three full seconds.
Then all of humanity went wild.
In central Shenzhou, a large yellow dog gnawing on a bone by the roadside was enveloped in Buddha Light.
"This dog has an exceptional skeletal structure and a karmic affinity with our Western Teachings. It shall be accepted as a nominal disciple."
A giant golden hand reached out of the void and scooped the dog away.
Beside it, the municipal enforcement cultivator who had been about to catch the dog nearly had his eyes pop out.
They weren't even passing up dogs?!
All of Blue Star plunged into an unprecedented frenzy of celebration.
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