The God-Emissaries

One much-awaited section of the Perfect World's Storyline but we haven't completely constructed was of course, that of the God-Emissaries. Well this time we reveal their intricate origins to the Path-Seekers of the Land.

The God-Emissaries

The burning brightness that passed throughout the Perfect Lands annihilated all the Gods and Demons that have been left to stand watch over the continuously clashing Yin and Yang Energies in the realms between the Heavens and the Underworlds and ensure that both energies are kept dormant and distant from one another. Thus the Celestial Monarch and the Ten-Veiled King were faced with a crisis: A threatening imbalance of the elements and an eventual cataclysmic clash of the Yin and the Yang, now reacting freely with the Gods and Demons gone.

Using the heightened powers of their Cultivation, the Celestial Monarch and Ten-Veiled King communed with one another, passing through barriers they themselves erected to separate their realms from the earth. There they discussed on how to resolve the critical matter at hand. They arrived at a solution after several moments after they had assessed the upper and lower worlds.

The Labyrinth of the Underworld was a bigger and much more complicated structure constructed by the Ten-Veiled King of the Underworld and his Demons to aid in stalling, capturing, and eliminating stray Banes that threatened the lower worlds, and as such it required more Demons on its halls, prepared to ambush Banes that dared trespass. Its vastness and complexity overtook its counterpart in the upper realms, the Vault of the Heavens, and thus both deities agreed that the Celestial Monarch would send down one of his best Gods, while the Ten-Veiled King would send one of his fine Demons.

Thus the agreement was settled and by the next sunrise one God, one Demon, and one Dragonblood appeared into the Perfect Land, watching over the Path-seekers and the thrice-split Kingdom. They were called the God-Emissaries.

Ascending Heaven, God-Emissary of Light

The Celestial Courtyard was a vast expanse of land, spanning multiple worlds. From two, tall poles on the northern and the southern end of the Courtyard was the string of Destiny, and from it, numerous other strands were tied to it. Their ends floated upwards, reaching into the sky - attached to the countless creatures in the Perfect World that Pangu had created.

It was the task of a nameless god to tend to the strings each day, making sure that the cords were not cut or were in knots. He handled his work with dedication; throughout the hundreds and thousands of years, his fingers upon the String of Destiny created stirring music. Those who would hear it might feel transported to one's happy childhood experiences, nostalgic, or be gripped by reflection of one's life. Although he was alone in the Celestial Courtyard, the music would sometimes course its way into the lives of the people whose strands were attached to the String - some say that these were the times of great inspiration to people, when heroes would decide to fight for justice despite adversity, when great minds would come upon a discovery that would change whole worlds, or when a wandering, stray animal would save an innocent life.

The coming of the Soulless was signified by dark clouds over the Courtyard, and soon, it began to rain. The soaked strings of fate became tainted with blackness, and everywhere, people in all the worlds began to experience misfortune. Despite this, the god continued his tasks. Where he could, he would shelter a small part of the String from the rain if only for a moment.

The Celestial Monarch, seeing the graveness of the situation, summoned the god to a tall mountain, overlooking the whole celestial domain. It was there that the bleakness of the scene became clearer - it became certain that drastic measures would have to be undertaken. It was then decided that the god could no longer do his tasks properly, and should instead concentrate on one specific section of the String of Destiny to restore the perfect world, that might serve as the birthing place of the heroes that they need to combat the Soulless.

As the nameless god returned to the String of Destiny, the Celestial Monarch waved his hand at him, causing his body to become translucent and ghostly. The god approached the part of the String where the most threads were attached, and touched it with a hollow hand. Immediately, his body turned to stone, and his spirit found its way into Destiny itself, and into the current existence.

Scholars called him "Ascending Heaven", the god who sought to return to his home. He was said to have come from the part of Pangu's existence that represented inspiration and the taking of one's destiny into one's own hand.

Fel Maiden, God-Emissary of Darkness

A Demon sent from the depths of the Labyrinth of the Underworld by the Ten-Veiled King of the Underworld, the notable Fel Maiden by her fellow Demons was one of the most influential and sinister beings of the lower realms, using her mind and cunning to thwart plots of the Devil spawns of the Void and destroying them most mercilessly with her whip that bore three stinging tentacles. She serves the Ten-Veiled King as his Master Strategist, keeping track of the entire Labyrinth of the Underworld with an enchanted map that she only possessed, revealing traces of Banes by means of the chi channels running deep in the lower realms.

She followed Ascending Heaven shortly after the God descended from the Heavens for it took her some time to navigate the Labyrinth and ascend from the Underworld, the complex structure being extremely unstable and ever-changing, as part of its inherent defenses. To avoid being taken by the commoners as a banshee of sorts, Fel Maiden utilized her knowledge to transmute her appearance into that of a Yao Jing that she laid eyes on, imitating its human-like features and fox-like ears and tail.

Jade Night, God-Emissary of Twilight

During the joined efforts of the Celestial Monarch and the Ten-Veiled King of the Underworld managed to seal the maddened and corrupted Immaculate Lady of the Earth and her minions, the Immaculate Lady spawned one last being in an effort to take on the gods and the demons: a jade egg, overflowing with corrupted energies of the Yin and the Yang. While the main forces of heaven and hell sealed the errant deities, another team of Gods and Demons locked up the various artifacts and weapons of the Immaculate Lady and her minions in the domains of the Divine Dragons.

One of these was the Jade Egg and it was taken in by the Dragon Fu Zhi, sensing divine life inside it. One night of the full moon, it hatched to a being with wild rune marks on its entire body, bearing half-beastly features that seemed to have been ravaged by the yin and the yang. Thus the dragons called him Jade Night. Altogether the dragons raised him as their offspring and used their enchantments to becalm the rage burning deep within the deity’s soul. When he was of age, the Dragons christened him as a Dragonblood; a being of godlike power but bearing a Dragon’s might.

However, try as the dragons might, Jade Night’s corrupted origins still gave way and when his power reached its fullest, he slaughtered all the dragons that took care of him. With their dying breaths, however, they unleashed one last powerful enchantment that sealed Jade Night inside their mountain citadel. Now, with the combined powers of the God-Emissaries Ascending Heaven and Fel Maiden, they undid the enchantments binding Jade Night and took him along as a God-Emissary, Ascending Heaven educating the corrupted Dragonblood and Fel Maiden keeping him sane and his rages at bay.