Ybur then went to seek out the Dragon Emperor. Faced with this request, the Dragon Emperor secretly felt his teeth ache but still agreed.
The Lantern King was no ordinary Pillar God to be easily satisfied and had a penchant for deception.
However, even the Lantern King had to give Scale Venerable some respect. Thus, there was a hidden rule here—the sacred number of the Phantom Pathway was six because six was the first perfect number, the sum of 1+2+3, representing a dynamic harmony, an unchanging yet ever-changing flame. In Jiuxia people's interpretation of the sixty-four hexagrams, the sixth hexagram, "Song," also harbored intentions of upheaval and conflict. The sacred number itself was both power and constraint, so the Lantern King had to ensure that out of every "six jokes," at least one was true.
