The Xue Clan brothers' performance was clumsy and overdone.
First of all, miracles truly existed in this world. Go north beyond the Yan Mountains, head east through Fallen Dragon Shoal, cross the Southern Ranges, or trek across the Poison Desert, and you could see miracles... indeed, Red Mountain in the southwest and the Sea of Bitterness in the northwest stood right there, while the Han River basin supported a population of over ten million.
There were miracles as great as anyone could ask for, good ones and bad ones alike. If one of those beings truly took a fancy to you, you would receive everything that was coming to you.
At the same time, however, miracles were often of little practical use.
This was because, after Lord White Emperor, the order of the Four Sovereigns had taken shape, and their rivalry in the mortal world had reached a fever pitch. In particular, after the Ancestor Emperor's Eastern Expedition had failed on the brink of success, and the Four Sovereigns had each begun backing his potential successors, discerning mortals had developed a fierce aversion and hostility toward them.
Otherwise, where would the Three-One Orthodox Church, which exalted the Three Luminaries and suppressed the Four Sovereigns, have come from? Why would emperors have called themselves the Supreme One on Land?
Commanding dragons, enfeoffing land, promoting Literary Cultivation-all these measures, all the measures taken since the height of the Tang, seemed to contain an element of practical mortal resistance against the Four Sovereigns.
And the results had been quite considerable, especially since the spread of the Three-One Orthodox Church.
In the settled lands of the central realm-that is, Hebei, the Eastern Territories, the Central Plains, the Jin Region, Guanlong, Western Liang, Bashu, Jingxiang, Jiangdong, Jiangxi, and Jianghuai-large-scale divine manifestations had almost vanished... most