Three months later, the Zhongtai Sect once again summoned the various cultivators atop the golden platform, this time for the matter of signing a Dharma Contract.
This time Sect Leader Qiao did not appear, but handed this matter over to Great Elder Yan Qinghui; this elder held high status and seniority, and among the elders of the sect, all took him as their head.
After the hour of Chen had passed, Zhang Yan rose from the Pavilion in a tunneling light, riding the wind to arrive; with a bow of his body and a sweep of his gaze, he saw incense burning and offerings laid out below, blue smoke curling upward, and two Daoist boys standing in attendance upon the platform hall, one holding a bell, the other clutching a sword.
