Heavenly Terrace Mountain of Prayer to the Sage rose far higher than ten thousand tiers.
As the place where the Dao Ancestor had ascended to supremacy, it was elevated to a stature mortals could scarcely reach.
At the summit.
The four prodigious disciples who had reached the peak first stood respectfully behind their Dao Lord masters, following the immortals' gazes as they watched the remaining candidates with curiosity.
Among the five, a handsome youth with an air removed from the mortal dust and deep, inscrutable eyes stepped forward first. He bowed to Dao Lord Ananda, who stood on the western side of the summit, clad in a kasaya and holding a lightning-wreathed precept blade.
"I, Jin Chan, wish to enter Buddhism. Please accept me into your fold, Dao Lord, so I may cultivate a body that delivers the world."
As the young Jin Chan entered Buddhism, an irrepressible smile appeared on Ananda's face.
He said with a smile.
"Excellent! Jin Chan, you have chosen our Buddha in the end. Rest assured. The Buddha delivers boundless living beings and will certainly never give you cause for regret."
And so Jin Chan moved behind Ananda and stood there quietly.
After Jin Chan, another youth stepped out from among the remaining boys and girls.
He was a delicate-featured youth dressed in watery blue, his eyes gleaming with the light of divine water. Around him, faint, barely perceptible raindrops seemed to fall and splash upon the grass.
He took a light step forward and bowed to a gentle, beautiful female Dao Lord in a long watery-blue dress among the immortals.
"I, Shi Yu, wish to become a disciple of the Tianyi Water Sect. Please accept me onto the path, Dao Lord."
"Excellent!"
The female Dao Lord of the Tianyi Water Sect promptly drew him