Before the great tides of history, insignificant people might have been no more than specks of dust amid the passage of ages, but the direction in which that dust drifted revealed the winds of the era.
A hundred years later, Old Daoist Fire Dragon of the Five-Dragon Divine Fire Dao and his disciples finally received word that preparations for their journey through the stars were complete. The master and his seven disciples abandoned the grotto-heaven where they had cultivated for so long and traveled deep into Hezhou, to the gathering point the Lunar Essence Divine Church had designated for their journey to the Big Dipper Ancient Star.
"Heavens! Is that a Five-Colored Altar? It's bigger than our entire sect grounds!"
No sooner had they descended into those mountains than one of the old Daoist's disciples cried out in astonishment. Following his gaze, they saw an enormous Five-Colored Altar, larger than a mountain ridge, concealed among the peaks high in the distant sky. Though the divine stones of five colors kept their radiance subdued, they were still dazzling.
"A Five-Colored Altar that big-the divine source needed just to activate it must be an astronomical amount!"
"Is this how they're sending us to Big Dipper?"
"The two great divine churches really are sparing no expense!"
How could these Immortal One and Immortal Two cultivators from a backwater have ever witnessed such a spectacle? For a time, the towering Five-Colored Altar captured all their attention. Even Old Daoist Fire Dragon, who stood at the peak of Immortal Two and was about to begin severing the Dao, was utterly awestruck.
In truth, they were far from the only ones astonished. Tens of thousands of cultivators from all over had gathered amid these mountains, and still more were arriving from every direction.
"Where have you