No one expected a new Sacred Land to appear in the South. In anyone's eyes, a so-called Sacred Land was nothing more than a natural formation.
Take the Mount Tai Holy Land, for instance. The ancients regarded Mount Tai as a Divine Mountain, a "direct path to the Emperor's throne," where the common people worshiped and Emperors held sacrifices. There was a saying: "When Mount Tai is stable, all under heaven is stable." From the time of Qin Shi Huang to the Qing Dynasty, thirteen successive Emperors personally ascended Mount Tai to perform the Fengshan Sacrifices or other rituals. Furthermore, another twenty-four Emperors dispatched officials to conduct sacrifices there a total of seventy-two times. This process gathered a dense concentration of imperial aura. That Sacred Land belonged to the nation's leader.
