A hundred thousand white-robed warriors raise their blades to guard the Gate of Heaven
A million vengeful ghosts shoulder a scarlet coffin and march against Kunlun
Phoenix crown, bridal veil—yet the gown is blood-soaked, the face withered; bone lamps and crimson candles light the wheel of rebirth
A thousand years ago, a divine sovereign carved his legend on the battlefield of a hundred races, seizing supremacy in seas of gore. He founded an eternal celestial dynasty and strove for the supreme throne, intent on forging the ninth imperial bloodline. Yet rival heroes rose in defiance, the hundred races marched in revolt, and at the very moment of coronation the sovereign fell upon the Bridge to Ascension
The Celestial Empress wept tears of blood, her lament echoing across the southeast. She rallied the dynasty’s last battered legions and fought free of the battlefield in a river of carnage. To safeguard her sovereign’s rebirth through the cycle of samsara, she burned her own blood and bones to illuminate the Nine Abysses. The Asura cast aside his life to bear the coffin down to the Yellow Springs, while thirty-six guardian generals raised their sabers and turned to stone, forever sealing the southeastern Gate of Heaven
The loyal spirits of the empire offered the power of a heaven-shaking sacrifice, jointly guarding the sovereign’s return through reincarnation, awaiting his second coming to the Nine Provinces
A thousand years later, the divine sovereign’s golden body is reborn in Cangxuan.
