The golden pillar did not dissipate. It exploded outward into the firmament, rolling across the clouds like a tidal wave of liquid starlight.
Above Cloud-Peak Mountain, the sky turned into an ocean of pure gold.
A ten-thousand-meter screen of crystallized karma unfurled across the clouds, stretching as far as the eye could see. It didn’t just hang over the banquet hall. It extended across the horizons of all nine prefectures, visible from the highest immortal peaks to the humblest mortal farmlands.
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Ten thousand guests in the banquet hall leapt to their feet. Plates shattered, flagons tipped over, and chairs scraped across the marble floor as everyone stared at the heavens.
