All Heavenly destiny reduced to ashes-Chapter 873 - 189: The Etiquette of Greetings for Martial Artists (Big - 13)

Dust Li, Western Region, Bright Mirror Sect.

Distinctly different from the outside world, translucent ice crystal snowflakes fall upon this land, then melt into vapor.

As a team of Bright Mirror Sect martial artists crossed the sky, shaping the clouds, the ominous clouds that originally blanketed the entire heaven transformed into a crystal-clear mirror, and the falling snowflakes transformed into nearly transparent glass-like crystals. The sun’s heat was focused by the cloud mirror, making the originally cold surroundings of Bright Mirror Sect warm like spring.

This ability to change heaven and earth and reshape natural phenomena is naturally for the ten-year True Inheritance Competition.

As the year-end approaches, the True Inheritance Competition is about to start. Many disciples and true inheritance adventurers from the Northern Border and various places in the North Mysterious Sacrifice Continent return, and the city clusters, towns, and villages surrounding Bright Mirror Sect gradually become active.

The ancient sect has long ruled this land, enduring numerous catastrophes without falling. In the eyes of the Dust Li tribes who have also experienced the passage of long years, Bright Mirror Sect is the heaven, the god, the order itself.

Its rise and fall, joys and sorrows, are the rise and fall, joys and sorrows of this heaven and earth. Therefore, when Bright Mirror Sect announces the imminent grand ceremony, the people within its jurisdiction rejoice enthusiastically.

The True Inheritance Competition is not the correct name.

Accurately speaking, it is merely an important part of Bright Mirror Sect’s ten-year Sacrificial Ceremony.

During this grand ceremony, Bright Mirror Sect will worship past patriarchs, Imperial Heaven and Earth, four celestial spirits, and numerous stars and constellations, to gain the righteousness of heaven and earth from the past, present, and future; open the gates and recruit qualifying disciples from all over Dust Li, widely teaching and spreading the mighty reputation of its sect’s Great Dao.

Ultimately, Bright Mirror Sect will use the power of the sect to plan the weather patterns in all directions for the next ten years, avoiding extreme droughts, cold disasters, floods, insect plagues, and other situations, establishing laws for a peaceful world.

Honor the patriarchs, worship heaven and earth, promote education, establish worldly order.

Simply put, Bright Mirror Sect wants to demonstrate its power and inheritance to the Heavenly Dao and the world through this grand ceremony: I inherit from the patriarchs, with clear lineage; I worship heaven and earth, a righteous sect; I promote education widely, future generations are endless; I govern all directions, peaceful and clear.

Thus, invisibly or even explicitly, gaining the ephemeral ’destiny’ from heaven, earth, and people.

The more grand the ceremony, the more participants, the more it is widely celebrated, the more destiny is accumulated—more people willing to join Bright Mirror Sect, more fear from its enemies, and more powerful the fate patterns bestowed by the Heavenly Dao.

The True Inheritance Competition is merely a performance competition to prove the strength of the younger generation to the ancestors, and to the people of Dust Li during the recruitment. It serves as a ceremony to demonstrate that the young true inheritance ’is not inferior to predecessors,’ and the sect leader of this generation ’can nurture future generations.’ Theoretically, its importance is not high..

Just. However, for the common people of Dust Li, the only part of the Sacrificial Ceremony they can understand and fully grasp is this ’spectacular arena competition.’

Within the mountain gate of Bright Mirror Sect, under the veteran Eight Peaks Mountain among various cities, the atmosphere before the ceremony has reached its peak. Flags of Bright Mirror Sect’s mirror sun and moon are hung along several main avenues, and martial artists of various halls are repairing and rebuilding the city’s formations, subtly adjusting the earth vein paths to ensure that during the ceremony, the entire city will reflect a mirage, appearing in the ’Dome Mirror’ in the sky.

By then, the entire Bright Mirror Sect will be reflected in the sky, with the auspicious sign of ’Mirrored Sky,’ and when the ceremony commences, the Dome Mirror reflecting all of Bright Mirror Sect will focus sunlight on the top of Bright Mirror Mountain, gathering ’Great Sun Purple Qi,’ enveloping Bright Mirror Sect, so that all visitors, regardless of gender, age, and whether they are martial artists or disciples, will be nourished somewhat, relieving ailments and enhancing yuan qi.

Such a celebration with the people, a ceremony that benefits everyone (even recognized as a local official holiday without rescheduling), will naturally be welcomed by everyone, as every household hangs various Bright Mirror images at their doors, and children use Light Mirrors—a tube made with spirit stone debris—to simulate magic attacks in mutual illuminations, running joyfully through streets and alleys.

Beside the roads, family members of sect disciples and martial artists wear black-and-white official ceremonial attire, discussing recent major events and news.

"This time in the True Inheritance Competition, An Jing is definitely the one to take first place, with an accompanying divine weapon and having record of defeating Divine Repository. I reckon even if he encounters the previous generation’s Divine Repository true transmission on the stage, he will win!"

"Ha, you might not know, right? True Transmission An is now the real power Peak Master, he’s already had contests with other young true transmissions, none of them could defeat him! This True Inheritance Competition, he’s likely just doing a performance contest; if he truly goes on stage, who can match the Divine Mandate?"

"Yes, now Peak Master An is among those observing the ceremony on stage, watching the performances of various True People and True Lords, and he might just be our Bright Mirror Sect’s new sect master after our five thousand five hundred years of idleness!"

Since Bright Mirror Sect’s Lord Cheng Guang retired as sect master and became Supreme Elder, there has been no sect master, because everyone knows that this former sect leader, now Supreme Elder, is the one who rules supreme in Bright Mirror Sect. There’s no need for another sect master unless he possesses the talent of a Heavenly Lord. Therefore, for over five thousand years, Bright Mirror Sect has always been governed by consultations among the five and subsequently eight peak masters.

Xiyi True Lord, the previous generation, was the one with the greatest opportunity to become the sect master of Bright Mirror Sect. Lord Cheng Guang also highly regarded him, but unfortunately he suffered severe injuries earlier, his life span was damaged, and now he has been silent for several decades, perhaps... has already passed away.

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