I have Immortality In The Cultivation World

Chapter 452 - 347 The Heavenly Court Shakes_2

Disciples of the three sects may fall, but they won’t harm the foundation of the Immortal Sects, instead allowing them to cut the dross and save the essence.

"Immeasurable Heavenly Honored One!"

Huayangzi proclaimed his Taoist title, "Fellow Daoist, this is an inevitable act, to sacrifice the small for the great, and also to maintain the peace of Dongsheng Divine Continent!"

Sheng Yangzhen glanced at the other two emperor lords, all of whom were silent, evidently supporting Huayangzi.

Though infighting is fierce within the three sects, they would unite against external threats to preserve the status of the Immortal Sects.

The Heavenly Emperor smoothed things over, "Due to the diminishing power of incense and prayers, there has not been a new True God ascended to the Heavenly Court in the past hundred years, which has caused quite a few righteous gods to harbor grievances."

"If we drag this on, we will not need to wait for the next grand calamity; the Heavenly Court will collapse on its own."

"Thus, we will initiate a grand calamity first to see its actual effect, and then decide if we should promote one every two thousand years!"

With the conversation having reached this point, Sheng Yang had no choice but to comply.

"Let’s do as Your Majesty has said."

The Heavenly Emperor gave a slight nod. Since the Divine Enthronement, a thousand years had passed, and a stable balance had been formed in the Heavenly Court. All that was needed was to mediate from the middle, and the Dongsheng Divine Continent would follow its will.

Hum!

The fishing hook vibrated, and the Heavenly Emperor gave a gentle flick, hooking a three-foot-long golden fish.

"This fish is fated with Us!"

The Heavenly Emperor summoned the attendant Heavenly Soldiers and instructed, "Take it to the Daoist temple, ask the temple master to personally chant scriptures and enlighten it, for in the future, it may become a Heavenly Court righteous god."

Envy flashed in the eyes of the Heavenly Eye. He had been standing guard for decades, but could not compare to catching a fish on the hook.

"Amitabha! Your Majesty is merciful, your virtue is immeasurable."

The Buddhist emperor lord Ji Shan chanted the Buddha’s name and said, "Today, there is another matter that needs to be settled—to decide which righteous gods will be sent to battle the Heavenly Master amidst this grand calamity."

The Heavenly Emperor’s expression did not change, while the other three emperor lords slightly narrowed their eyes.

To say they were going to battle, in reality, was to send them to their demise, for once Sun Changsheng ascended to be a human immortal, none of the righteous gods in the Heavenly Court would be his match.

Huayangzi stated, "Let us compile a Demon Capturing Army in proportion to the number of righteous gods from various sects, responsible for capturing the Heavenly Master. Once the Demon Capturing Army is entirely perished, then we shall step forward and subdue him!"

"This method is feasible, impartial, and fair."

The emperor lord of the Severing Heaven Sect, Tian Ling, agreed, "Those righteous gods without any background, who climbed up through the Daoist academy’s exams, can all be sent to capture demons. This would also be a good way to clear space for new recruits in the academy."

Sheng Yang secretly sighed with relief, fearing that the three sects would send his subordinate righteous gods to their deaths, turning him into a bare-staffed emperor lord, but still voiced opposition as a matter of course.

"Some sects have only one remaining righteous god, sending them would break their lineage of teaching. Isn’t this too cruel?"

"That argument does not hold!"

Huayangzi replied, "The Heavenly Court indeed intends to reduce the number of sects, and this grand calamity is an excellent opportunity to accelerate the process."

Ji Shan and Tian Ling nodded in agreement, the three sects wished there were no other sects besides them.

The Heavenly Emperor remained silent, neither nodding nor objecting.

Now, apart from the twelfth divisions directly under the Heavenly Court, with the increase of the heavenly laws, many new departments had been established, most of which were directly subordinate to the Heavenly Emperor.

One or two might seem to have little power, but collectively they already had a considerable number of members.

"The Blood Devil Child?"

He instantly turned into an escape light, and in the next instant appeared in the Demon Suppression Tower, which hadn’t been filled with demons and ghosts for a thousand years, only the remnants of the dry corpses left by the absorption of the Two Realms Ten Directions Demon Extermination Great Array.

His eyes shone with spiritual light as he looked at the layers of inheritance prohibitions.

Yet he saw the sea of blood at the bottom of the tower had dried up, the Blood Devil Child’s figure long gone.

"Damn bald donkey!"

Shou Shan Gong cursed furiously, the reincarnation of the Blood Devil Child was already troublesome enough, yet now they had even presented the Arhat Shèlì relics.

Buddha and demon as one, his strength even more formidable than in his previous life.

Back then, the Blood Devil Child had single-handedly faced dozens of human immortals from Divine Continents, and in the end, it was only with a treasure bestowed by an ancestor from the higher realms that they managed to barely seal him, where now to find so many human immortals?

The terrifying indestructible body of the Blood Devil Child, even human immortals could do little against him, and during combative spell clashes, he devoured essence-blood, which only increased his strength!

"There are dozens of True Gods in the Heavenly Court, with the help of Formation and Prohibition, perhaps they could trap the Blood Devil Child."

Shou Shan Gong’s thoughts whirled around rapidly, and he immediately communicated with the other two human immortals, then transformed into an escape light flying towards the Heavenly Court.

"We must not let the Blood Devil Child escape the Heavenly Court!"

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Heavenly Court.

Elixir Hall.

Sun Changsheng was unaware of how much turmoil he had stirred, retracting his mana and checking the additional memories in his Primordial Spirit.

"The Blood Devil Child launched a world-ending calamity, aiming to refine the beings of Divine Continents into an endless sea of blood, which would allow him to break through to the True Demon realm in the Mortal World, becoming invincible under the heavens!"

"What kind of damn technique is this?"

Sun Changsheng shook his head slightly, despising the stupidity of his previous incarnation, no wonder he ended up dying and his Tao perished.

"My master once said, the stronger your strength, the more cautious you need to be, to avoid the blinding of your heart by calamitous qi, dying from arrogance and wanton behavior. Only by making more friends and fewer enemies can you truly become invincible!"

Sun Changsheng recalled his master’s teachings, his form flickered as he left the Elixir Hall, waving his hand to disperse the Buddha light and the demonic clouds.

"With the current situation already revealing that I’m not the reincarnation of the Heavenly Master, I wonder if I can still hold an official position in the Heavenly Court."

"Having proven to be a human immortal, whether or not I hold an official post is irrelevant. I will slowly accumulate merit in the Mortal World, reduce the karmic forces from my previous life, and ascend to seek my master in the Immortal Realm!"

Sun Changsheng’s thoughts raced, and he turned into an escape light flying toward the heavenly prison.

Planning to wait for the arrival of the Heavenly Court Righteous Gods for a good negotiation, to calmly resign from the position of Heavenly Master.

The human immortal’s escape light spanned thousands of miles in an instant.

Sun Changsheng appeared outside the heavenly prison in a flash and looked down to see all the Righteous Gods and jailers fainted on the ground, as if struck by some kind of sleeping secret technique.

Before he could even begin to help,

Thousands upon thousands of demons and ghosts surged up from underground, knelt on the ground, and knocked their heads on the floor.

"We greet the Ancestor of Demons/senior/Superior Immortal/Great Saint..."

The titles were a jumble of chaos; demonic cultivators who saw the swirling demonic clouds called him Ancestor, the demon races who saw his monkey form called him Great Saint, and the others from various heretical paths called him senior or Superior Immortal.

Sun Changsheng recognized these people, as he had not rarely drawn their blood on any given day.