Three months later.
The first day of the first month, New Year's Day, in the 512th year of Ming.
Western Kunlun was a sea of people.
As details of the Ginseng Dharma Assembly three months earlier spread, along with the widely circulated outline of Listening to the Land, everyone knew that True Lord Evolving Transformation would establish his sect at Western Kunlun today, formally founding the Dao of Listening to the Land. They had gathered to join the excitement, unwilling to miss this grand occasion.
The invited guests arriving from across the Divine Land began entering the mountain to the announcement of their names at the hour of the Hare that morning. First came Three Pure Ones Mountain, the ancestral court of the Ten Thousand Methods School, followed in turn by the other five great exoteric religions south of the Yangtze, including Dragon-Tiger Mountain. Close behind came the two great Buddhist immortal-mountain ancestral courts south of the Yangtze: Mount Putuo and Jiuhua Mountain.
After the southern immortal sects came those north of the Yangtze, led by Laoshan. Both great Dragon Gate immortal-sect ancestral courts, Changchun and Tiecha, attended, marking their first meeting since their separation. Next came the two great Buddhist immortal-mountain ancestral courts north of the Yangtze, Mount Song and Wutai Mountain, followed by Mount Beimang, foremost among the world's unorthodox sects. After the east came the west: Mount Qingcheng and Emei Mountain arrived together.
Once the landbound immortal sects had all arrived, the Yellow Sea Dragon Lord and the Southern Sea Dragon Lord arrived too. After those of the seas came those of the heavens. All Five Cities attended, along with a little under half of the Twelve Towers. Why only a little under half at first? Because some had fallen from the ranks of immortal sects and