Chapter 1055 – A Sages Time (1/2)
Chapter 1055 – A Sage's Time
Translated by: Hypersheep325
Edited by: Michyrr
Beyond the stone pillars was the Divine Avenue leading into the heart of the Li Palace.
The teachers and students of the Li Palace Academy, the Temple Seminary, and the Thirteen Divisions of Radiant Green lined the avenue, bowing in respect.
Chen Changsheng did not spend time reminiscing on the stories that had taken place on this Divine Avenue. He continued forward.
He climbed the long flight of steps, walked past the Hall of Pure Virtue, and finally reached the quiet and secluded hall.
The night sky was cut into the mouth of a well by the roof, just like it had always been, but there was no more wooden ladle by the pool of water, as the Green Leaf was no longer there.
An Hua prostrated in respect, her white robes blown about in the chilly night winds, as agitated as her heart.
Chen Changsheng nodded in greeting and had her rise.
An Hua walked behind him and helped him put on the Divine Robe, then spent a great deal of time making sure everything was perfect.
Chen Changsheng gazed up at that narrow window into the sky, looked up at the countless stars in the bottom of the well, and he recalled his comprehensions when he looked at the sea of stars in White Emperor City.
After some time, he looked away and said, ”Let's go.”
Accompanied by the soft gurgling of water that could purify one's heart, he walked to the deepest part of the secluded hall, to the stone wall.
The stone wall slowly parted and blazing light spilled out, along with the endless splashing of waves.
This splashing of waves was the sound of clothes chafing as one kneeled, of the excited crowd, of solemn praises to the divine.
”Paying respects to His Holiness the Pope.”
Countless priests kneeled on the ground, appearing just like a tide.
Divine Crown on head and Divine Staff in hand, Chen Changsheng serenely regarded the sight before him.
Starting from that small village at the foot of Mount Han, this sort of sight had begun to appear more and more.
As it was commonly described: like a tide.
None of this was fresh to him anymore.
He had gotten used to seeing the sea of people.
And this was not his first time standing here.
He stood on the platform within the Great Hall of Light.
This place was certainly not the highest place in the Li Palace, but it was certainly the highest and most unreachable position in the continent.
This place was only ten-some stone steps from the ground, but they might as well have been countless li, and the place he stood the Divine Kingdom in the sea of stars.
As the pious praises of the divine and recitation of scripture continued, a dignified and divine atmosphere enveloped all of the Great Hall of Light.
Warm Sacred Light illuminated everything within the hall in startling detail. Even the finest sliver of darkness could not exist here.
A massive stone hall existed within the Great Hall of Light.
The images of past sages, heroes, knights, and Saints were carved on this wall. Every detail was revealed under the Sacred Light, making them seem to come to life.
The sages, heroes, knights, and Saints of the past looked down over the people of the world.
Their gazes were not ones of indifference, but contained many real emotions.
Chen Changsheng stood in front of the stone, stood within the Sacred Light.
He bore those gazes.
He gazed at the people of the world.
This sight was incomparably divine.
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Chen Changsheng raised the Divine Staff.
The recitation gradually ceased and the priests slowly began to rise, again like a tide.
The Great Hall of Light suddenly turned quiet. It was even possible for everyone in the hall to hear the wisps of winds that had somehow managed to make it past the array brush against the walls.
Perhaps it was because when the Divine Staff dropped back down, the sea of people in the hall divided into two.
Linghai Zhiwang, Archbishop An Lin, Daoist Siyuan, and Hu Thirty-Two, the four Prefects of the Orthodoxy, stood on the right.