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Yellow Mountain.
Several li down the mountain, a circular altar had already been erected. It was known as the “Altar of Land and Grain,” and it was adorned with the five colors of soil: green, red, yellow, white, and black. In Primordial World, the five colors also possessed the meaning of the five regions and five elements, that all land under Heaven belonged to the king. There was another altar at the summit. This one was five zhang wide, nine chi tall, with steps on all four sides; it was called the Primordial Altar.
Yet another octagonal altar was at the foot of the mountain; this was called the Jiangshan Altar.
It was unlike the Feng And Shan Ceremony of the secular world. The secular world’s version was quite complicated, beginning with an offering at the Feng altar at the base of the mountain. The following day, one would scale Mount Tai and bestow a jade plaque at the altar there. On the third day, the performer would go to Mount Sheshou and make sacrifices at the Jiangshan Altar. After completion of the Feng And Shan Ceremony, they would accept the congratulations of the officials at the Chaojin altar, subsequently issue edicts to erect the “Dengfeng,” “Jiangshan” and “Chaojin” steles.
After that, there was a series of namings before the process was finished.
But Xuanyuanshi’s Feng And Shan Sacrifices were very simple. There was no need to make sacrifices to Heaven because the deities were Heaven, and there was no need to make sacrifices to Earth because the Earth was fit only to stepped upon. Xuanyuanshi ascended Yellow Mountain, doing only one thing in order to proclaim herself the Yellow Emperor: after announcing the time for the “sun and moon to rise,” she would offer sacrifices to the Primordial Altar, take control of the Five Elements soils, and overlook all of the Northern Primordial. If the sun and moon rose without these tasks accomplished, the ceremony was considered a failure.
Xuanyuanshi commanded hundreds of officials while the retinue moved towards Yellow Mountain from a ceremonial armory.
The Feng And Shan Carriage’s procession stretched tens of li and was accompanied by the leaders and Divine Names of other tribes, who, after the proclamation, swore allegiance to the Hong tribe.
Upon the carriage, Xuanyuanshi wore magnificent clothes and appeared majestic. She had a queenly might, an eye-catching presence without fury.
Nüba, Fenghou, and Li Mu sat upright and still to her left and right.
“Daughter, today is not the time for you to be vexed.” Xuanyuanshi nonchalantly said.
Nüba knew she was in the wrong and said: “Ba begs your forgiveness, Mother, but Ba worries that Chiyou will come to stir chaos.” If Chiyou were to cause trouble during the ceremony, they may not be able to stop her given her level of strenght.
Xuanyuanshi was already aware of everything that trnspired at Emperor Yao’s divine palace, that, in the end, Chiyou personally appeared and stole the eight Divine Cauldrons.
Chiyou possessed a powerful Innate Skill to forge weapons, and now that she had Emperor Yao’s Earlier Heaven-level Divine Cauldrons, this was a very dangerous sign to the Hong tribe. “We are already aware that Chiyou is preparing to refine the Divine Cauldrons, to cast an Earlier Heaven magic treasure. She cannot accomplish this in just a few short days, so there is no need to worry.” Xuanyuanshi smiled. Not even Emperor Yao was able to succeed at an Earlier Heaven-level magic treasure back then. No matter how much Chiyou surpassed Emperor Yao’s power, there was absolutely no way she could finish in a few days.
“Daughter is overthinking.” Nüba smiled.
Regrettably, this Feng And Shan Ceremony lacked Bai Ze. If she had this Divine Name who knew of all things in Heaven and Earth, of all gods and ghosts, then her name could have moved even the Three Realms, Five Continents, Seven Seas, and Twelve Regions.
“Ever since Qi Lin returned, he has been in a state of unconsciousness and has yet to awaken. Now that the Ji lack his assistance, we can take Bai Ze with complete certainty.”
“No need, in order to take charge of the world, how can We be as an abductor.” Yellow Emperor Xuanyuan took quite a liking to these words that Qi Lin said before. Even if she seized Bai Ze, as a deity, this was not a good impression, and she did not want to fall out with Yu The Great at this point in time.
The entire Feng And Shan Ceremony proceeded like clockwork.
Approximately half an hour before sunrise, the Feng And Shan Carriage reached the foot of Yellow Mountain.
A tall flight of stairs reached into the sea of clouds.
The Altar Of Land And Grain’s five-colored soils rose as five colors of auspicious clouds, surrounding Yellow Mountain.
The officials and ministers deferentially knelt.
Donghuang Taiyi, do you see?
Absent you, We can also invest as emperor.
Yao, do you see?
We had no need for anyone’s recognition to invest Ourselves as emperor.
Gazing at the peak, Xuanyuanshi absentmindedly recalled bygone times. Finally, she would realize her wish today, by her own hand without needing to make use of others.
Xuanyuanshi disembarked the Feng And Shan Carriage. The officials followed after her.
Step by step, she walked upwards.
Imposing, graceful, noble.
A queenly posture beyond compare.
…
On a mountain a hundred li away from Yellow Mountain, the floodwaters were surging, devouring all creatures. A dragon-like pillar of water supported a woman.
The woman’s figure was elegant, her hair half-transparent like a running stream. Her clothes were clearer than water, more limpid than a lake.1
She was Gonggong.
“Feng And Shan Ceremony. Truly interesting, This God has not waited for so long in vain.” “Primordial Chaos Water God” Gonggong licked her lips. Ever since she learned that Xuanyuanshi was carrying out the Feng And Shan Ceremony to invest as the Yellow Emperor, an interesting idea came to Gonggong.
Originally, she wanted to submerge Mount Tu in a flood, but on second thought, this was not grand enough.
Gonggong was familiar with this Xuanyuanshi. Back during the Primal Chaos Heavenly Court, she was a bit famous and was one of the candidates for the Five Emperors, but her strength was a bit lacking. However, she severed her relationship with the Heavenly Court out of arrogance.
After the Heavenly COurt was destroyed, Xuanyuanshi regathered the Northern Primordial’s Divine Names, and the Shaman Clan became the Hong tribe.
Now, they were the leaders of the Northern Primordial’s tribes.
“Very good, This God will make an example of you.” Seeing that the time was almost right, Gonggong moved her thoughts. The head of the water dragon under her then rolled towards Yellow Mountain like a horse-drawn carriage.
…
Xuanyuanshi ascended the Primordial Chaos Altar and stood at the summit of the Yellow Mountain, gazing in all four directions.
She grabbed at the air, bringing the red soil of the auspicious five to her palms. So long as she placed the five soils into the Primrodial Chaos Altar and waited for the sun and moon to rise, this ritual would be considered complete.
After placing in the first red soil, the thousands in the crowd suddnely began murmuring.
Xuanyuanshi frowned. The Feng And Shan Ceremony was a very solemn ritual, and noise was not permitted. In a range of a hundred li, the birds and beasts kept quiet out of fear; any noise during the ceremony was punishable by death. But the racket only grew louder. Clearly, they were startled by something and were unable to control tehmselves.
“Mother.”
Nüba said with difficulty.
Xuanyuanshi put down the second black soil and gazed into the distance.
Even she could not help but be astonished.
On a faraway plain, a hundred zhang tall waterfall was hurtling towards Yellow Mountain. That waterfall became a gigantic beast with the momentum of an army, but there was no river in the plain and the roar of the water seemed to come from nowhere. However, what shocked people even more was that a woman stood atop the roaring water.
A woman who seemed to be born of water.
The flowing water beneath her feet seemed to be driven like a carriage.
If not for the ceremony, the people would already have scattered in fright.
“Everyone, do not panic. There would inevitably be someone to come test Her Majesty’s divine might during the Feng And Shan Ceremony.” Li Mu shouted, her tone resounding as thunder, snapping everyone out of their panic.
Fenghou, Li Mu, and the minsters looked to Xuanyuanshi.
The woman knew what to do and faintly smiled: “Then We shall go meet her.”
She certainly did not want anyone to ruin this ceremony at Yellow Mountain. Thus, she flew out of Yellow Mountain and waited.
Everyone shifted over as well.
A moment later, Gonggong reached the outer edges of Yellow Mountain. The water dragon carriage appeared even more grand as its rumbling roar shook the earth.
“You are Xuanyuanshi. They say you want to invest as the Yellow Emperor. I have come specially to offer congratulations.” Gonggong stood on the water dragon. Though she spoke of congratulations, her attitude was disdainful.
“Leave the words of congratulations to Our ministers. You need only serve under Us.” Xuanyuanshi smiled.
“No, This God’s congratulatory gift must be handed to you personally.” Gonggong smiled.
“Oh?”
Xuanyuanshi raised her brow, hearing some implied meaning.
Gonggong did not waste another breath. She moved her hand, and the ground boomed, as if something was breaking out from the earth, leaving everyone’s footing unsteady.
“What immense power.” Nüba was astonished.
The ground across a hundred li violently shook and burst open with a terrific boom. Several dozen hundred zhang long water dragons soared into the sky from beneath the ground. These water dragons were all made through Divine Energy using condensed water from underground and towered taller than even mountains.
The water dragons ferociously pounced twaords Xuanyuanshi. As far as the eye could see, Heaven and Earth were blockaded by these waters.
Gonggong then spoke.
“This God is Primordial Chaos Water God Gonggong. Please, remember This God. And this congratulatory gift is your own head, Xuanyuanshi.”
The Yellow Emperor drew the Xuanyuan Sword, which represented the power of the human world; all sages and emperors under Heaven gathered in the sword. Wherever its sword-light passed, all in the world would submit to the sword. A dozen water dragons suffered the yellow sword-light, and no matter how powerful tehy were, they groaned and were turned to rain.
“Gonggong? We know not where a nobody like you came from, to be so disrespectful and arrogant.” The Yellow Emperor disdainfully judged.
Gonggong laughed.
She extended her hands, and the scattered rains in the sky gathered once again, forming a soaring dragon spanning a hundred zhang. Its whole body was formed from water. In comparison, while the average powers that cultivators used could likewise form water dragons, they only appeared very powerful but were, in fact, quite weak. In contrast, the dragon fromed from Gonggong’s water powers seemed substantive and suddenly made people feel very insignificant.
The water dragon roared, opening its maw to devour the Yellow Emperor.
The Yellow Emperor brandished the Xuanyuan Sword, throwing herself into the water dragon. Ray after ray of sword-light glowed, illuminating all of the Northern Primrodial. A moment later, this water dragon was cut to pieces, but to Gonggong, this was nothing mroe than the prelude.
She tapped her fingertips together again, and the scattered water dragon coalesced again, this time into a Vermilion Bird.
The bird flapped its wings, and countless water balls dropped from the sky like meteors, completely smashing the plains into a swamp. Even from several dozen li away, the distant spectators were struck and left feeling sore. They had no choice but to pull back.
The Yellow Emperor continued to wield the Xuanyuan Sword, breaking all of the water balls.
Xuanyuanshi’s Realm had increased to at least High Ancient Divine Realm. When the Xuanyuan Sword slashed, a sword-light would rise from the ground into the sky like a dragon ascending the heavens, breaking apart the water bird’s obstructions, splitting it apart.
Gonggong faintly grinned.
Exactly as before, the fragmented downpour reformed into a tiger the next instant. Wherever it tread, the plains became a marsh.
The water tiger lunged at Yellow EMperor Xuanyuan, and a series of water swords shot up from the ground, sprouting like a forest.
“Break!!”
As the Yellow Emperor swept by, all power in Heaven and Earth gathered on the sword and slayed teh water tiger.
The next second, a spirit turtle entangled with a giant snake rose from the ground, and countless lakes also gushed forth.
“Black Turtle? The Four Symbols?”
The Yellow Emperor was taken aback.
“This God’s ‘Water Element Four Symbols’ does not lose out to the actual Four Symbols. That you surprisingly are capable of killing them, hm, you may as well be Divine Emperor.” Gonggong smiled.
Xuanyuanshi laughed along, but her gaze suddenly darkened.
How could she, the queen of the Northern primordial, allow some unknown Divine Name to mock her.
At this moment.
In the spectating crowd.
Everyone was dumbstruck by the battle unfolding on the plains.
White Tiger, Azure Dragon, Vermilion Bird, Black Turtle.
This Gonggong Divine Name surprsingly was able to produce the Four Symbols. Producing the Four Symbols was not considered particularly impressive, with any cultivator having reached Truth Return Four Symbols being capable of one or two, but Gonggong’s was entirely different. The Four Symbols she formed with her Divine Energy were comparable to the actual four Holy Beasts. Any one of them had enough power to flatten an area, but Yellow Emperor Xuanyuan’s Realm had long surpassed the Four Symbols and had already reached heights that could control Holy Beasts. Thus, she could slay them in one strike without any pressure.
“Mother is in danger.” Nüba was inwardly worried.
Just at this moment, Yellow EMperor Xuanyuan’s sword released dozens of golden light rays, the might of which reached every corner of the Northern Primordial, to the depths of the abyss.
“Oh?”
Gonggong frowned.
After the golden light receded, Yellow Emperor Xuanyuan’s crown and yellow robes were already radiating golden light as yellow dragons flew around her.
“Then This God shall also use Chaos Rank to play with you.”
Gonggong brandished beoth her hands. Splashes of water erupted, and everyone saw water from every stream, river, lake, and sea in the Northern Primrodial converge upon her. Countless water driplets quietly hung in the air like pearls, glowing along with Gonggong’s Divine Intent.
Each droplet released a dazzling light. Billions of these droplets formed a stunning scene.
Gonggong in Heaven.
Xuanyuanshi on Earth.
“In the name of water, follow the way of Heaven.” Gonggong shouted.
Chaos Rank – Heaven And Water As One!
Xuanyuanshi wielded her divine sword, slashing twoards the sky. The Xuanyuan Sword’s golden light was unleashed, and the golden lights on the ground, gathering the qi of the human world, shot up as a sword-qi into the sky, as if to cleave into the Thirty-three Devas.
This golden light came with such speed that it was instantly right before Gonggong’s eyes. She showed an expression of shock and instinctively dodged.
The golden light cleaved the sky.
Leaving a deep ravine in the sky taht exposed star-light, as if it split even Heaven itself.
Everyone was awestruck.
Chaos Rank: Heavenly Rift!
Gonggong stared blankly at the gap in the sky. All of the mist dissipated under the sword-light, completely evaporating. Gonggong herself suffered a wound. She possessed the power of the Immemorial Water God, but she was suprisingly injured. If not for obtaining the waters of the Northern Primordial, that strike just now may very well have killed her.
Gonggong retracted her grin and sternly stared at Xuanyuanshi. Gone was any frivolity.
She knew.
And every deity present knew.
As of this day.
In the vast Primrodial World, the Yellow Emperor had descended.
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