With a slight sway of his body, Jiang Chen's figure left the council hall, arriving at a vast square.
This square, located halfway up a mountainside, was a naturally formed stone platform, wide enough to accommodate tens of thousands of people.
Before Jiang Chen arrived, all of the over three hundred disciples from the Upper Qing lineage had already gathered here, silently awaiting his arrangements.
The ritual altar needed by Jiang Chen had already been prepared by Zhang Heng and the others. It was fashioned from top-quality white jade, extraordinarily translucent, emitting brilliant lights, clearly not an ordinary object at first glance.
In front of the ritual altar, there was a furnace, not just any furnace, it was the Heaven and Earth Furnace, refined with the power of Heaven and Earth by Jiang Chen himself.
On the ritual altar, a divine statue was worshipped. It was not Mother Earth, but her incarnation, one of the Four Protectors - the Earth Emperor.
