Above the flowing starlight, within that great sun, the lofty and marvelous form of the Daoist had completely transformed into a Primordial Heaven and Earth. Although this heaven and earth remained somber and dim, like the hour of Yin before the Mandate of Heaven is decreed—neither light nor dark—it was nevertheless brimming with spiritual vitality. Within the hazy, flowing waters, a spirit of the heavenly waters emerged, conjured from the kidney palace of the five viscera. This spirit was originally the Black Emperor icon of the Five Emperors belonging to Zhou Tieyi. Because the fortune of the Five Emperors had dispersed, the icon had shifted from substance to void, suffering grievous injury; yet now, as the Divine Immortal path merged with the mortal, it was nourished by a different grand fortune, repairing its Dao path.
In that kidney palace, which remained hidden from the view of the crowd, the black-robed emperor who previously wore the Twelve Ornaments underwent a transformation: he donned a lotus crown, wore a robe of longevity, sat upon a blooming lotus, and was accompanied by celestial acolytes on either side.
Then, a supreme Daoist resonance emerged from the Primordial Heaven and Earth. Passing through the Gate of Xuànpìn, it interacted with the external world, manifesting as ten thousand dark-colored auspicious clouds and ten thousand immortals within the water. Golden flowers rained from the sky, meeting the green lotuses rising from the earth. In an instant, th…
Chapter 524