The tablet vibrated in the sky, and Ruri's name was announced prominently as the victor. All eyes in the stands turned to the solitary woman in the center. Their hearts raced as they watched her movements, as if they were before a true goddess.
She slowly sheathed her katana, taking deep breaths. The elders watched her attentively, surprised; she was perfectly fine physically, and her Qi had not diminished at all. All that power seemed to come from her influence over celestial laws, as if the heavens themselves were moving to help her.
The high elders and leaders of the four sects clearly understood the meaning of all those phenomena. A celestial manifestation was the pinnacle of an Empyrean's power; only those who went to divine sects and were very lucky managed to fully form the manifestation. In the sect's history, there were few records of this, and even the current leaders couldn't do it themselves.
