On the Heavenly Origin Platform, the prodigies held their breath and focused.
The Yellow List was a weighty earthen brown, the Mystic List a deep, unfathomable black, the Earth List a clear blue-green, the Heaven List a blazing scarlet, the Immortal List a noble purple-gold, and the Divine List a resplendent gold-red!
Pillars of six-colored fortune descended from the Ninth Heaven List like waterfalls of stars suspended upside down, bathing the entire Heavenly Origin Platform in streaming radiance, solemn and magnificent. Some pillars were thick and others thin, their size determined by rank. The higher the ranking, the richer the blessing of fortune.
The prodigies greedily absorbed this hard-won gift. They could feel their auras rising at a visible pace, their battle wounds healing swiftly, and bottlenecks that had resisted them for ages beginning to loosen. Insights into the Dao that had once been obscure and incomprehensible now poured forth without end.
They bore the fortune of heaven and earth and carried the virtue of all living beings.
This was the reward they deserved after emerging from battles of blood and fire, the cornerstone of their future supreme Dao Foundations, and this world's greatest acknowledgment of them.
But what descended onto the first tier, where Yun Qing stood, could no longer be described as a "pillar of light."
It was a "sea"!
A gold-red sea of fortune poured down from the Nine Heavens like a celestial river bursting its banks, instantly swallowing the red-clad figure whole.
That almost terrifyingly vast torrent of fortune left every witness holding their breath, their eyes brimming with envy.
"So this is the fortune awarded to first place on the Divine List? H-how long would it take to absorb all that?"
"Absorb it? Either of us would probably burst in an instant!" An Earth List