"Mandate of Heaven?" Jin Yuanbao asked in confusion, "What is the Mandate of Heaven?"
The Confucian Saint took a sip of wine and said with a smile, "The Mandate of Heaven is the Mandate of Heaven, the center of an era, a convergence required for the functioning of a world, carrying the mission of an era, and you are the Mandate of Heaven for this era. Everything will revolve around you; you are the fourth Mandate of Heaven in this world."
"The fourth?" Jin Yuanbao asked, "Who were the first three?"
"The first was the Taoist Ancestor, the second was the Buddha, and the third was me," said the Confucian Saint. "The three of us each represented three different eras. In our respective eras, we each had our missions. The mission of the Taoist Ancestor was to bring the flame of civilization to this barren world.
