Heavenly Court.
Star Constellation Immortal Venerable exhaled a turbid breath. Her face was pale at this moment, weakness and exhaustion wrapping around her body and mind.
"At last, this grand formation has been completed. What follows will be the era of humanity's Dao surging forward."
Star Constellation Immortal Venerable gazed at the Derivation Grand Formation before her, feeling a deep sense of gratification.
After refining all of the Wisdom Path Dao marks contained within Heavenly Court, she had not departed immediately. Instead, she had seized every passing moment — truly racing against time — to complete the construction of the Derivation Grand Formation.
Though Star Constellation Immortal Venerable's primary cultivation lay in the Wisdom Path with the Star Path as her secondary focus, the deployment of Immortal formations was hardly her weak point.
In fact, she surpassed the vast majority of Eighth Transformation formation masters.
Of course, when it came to those legendary formation powerhouses, there were still aspects of the Dao of Formations that Star Constellation Immortal Venerable could not match.
In any case, Star Constellation Immortal Venerable had given everything she had, and now the Derivation Grand Formation was complete!
The core of this grand formation was the Ninth Transformation Derivation Immortal Gu.
This was a legendary Immortal Gu, documented as far back as the "Records of the Human Ancestor." After it had once fallen into the possession of Limitless Demon Venerable, it had served as the core of the Insanity Grand Formation for an extended period.
Following the battle of the Insanity Den, Star Constellation Immortal Venerable had seized a fragment of Fact Ice, which contained the Derivation Immortal Gu within.
She had utilized Heavenly Court's Heavenly Path achievements to crack open the Fact Ice and extract the Derivation Immortal Gu.
After that, she had taken the Derivation Immortal Gu as the first core and, building around it, constructed this grand formation!
Limitless Demon Venerable had used the Derivation Immortal Gu along with the chaotic void beyond the world to deduce and forge Fact Ice — something that should not have belonged to this world.
Star Constellation Immortal Venerable, meanwhile, had adopted the essence of the Insanity Grand Formation and built the Derivation Grand Formation, designed specifically to propel the development of humanity's Dao.
The development of a path typically required the painstaking efforts of countless elites, along with hundreds of thousands or even millions of years of continuous progress. But under the Derivation Grand Formation, the advancement of a path would be as if sprouting wings — leaping from walking and running straight into the sky to soar!
After inspecting the Derivation Grand Formation, Star Constellation Immortal Venerable then examined the various Wisdom Path killing moves she had activated earlier.
These Wisdom Path killing moves possessed abilities such as defending against surveillance, concealing the Derivation Grand Formation, and reinforcing Heavenly Court's defenses.
Even though the core Immortal Gu of these Wisdom Path killing moves were only at the Eighth Transformation, amplified by the Wisdom Path Dao marks of Heavenly Court, they could withstand even a full-force assault from another Venerable for a period of time.
Having reached this point, Star Constellation Immortal Venerable made the rare choice to rest.
Her immortal essence consumption had been far too great. Although she had been developing her own immortal aperture, the output of Ninth Transformation immortal essence could not keep pace with the intense consumption of this period.
Moreover, laying out a Ninth Transformation grand formation — Star Constellation Immortal Venerable was not, after all, a specialist in the Dao of Formations, and both her mind and her energy had been taxed enormously.
Truth be told, ever since Star Constellation Immortal Venerable's resurrection, she had not enjoyed such a proper rest.
The standoff between Venerables had placed tremendous pressure upon her.
Three days passed, and Star Constellation Immortal Venerable immediately set about handling Heavenly Court's affairs.
The wills of Heavenly Court's immortals assembled once more for deliberation.
Qin Dingling came to report, briefing her on everything that had transpired over the two days.
Star Constellation Immortal Venerable offered her words of encouragement. Qin Dingling and Jun Shenguang had truly rendered meritorious service this time — they had managed to turn over more than half of the superforces within the Two Heavens' blessed grounds.
As for the inexplicable boost that Qin Dingling's Luck Path killing move had received, Star Constellation Immortal Venerable intended to find time to properly deduce and investigate it.
The Northern Plains was tranquil. Rogue Immortals and demonic cultivators, under the imposing might of Giant Sun Immortal Venerable, were gradually coalescing together. They were either recruited by the Golden Tribe or gathered around Chu Du, Hundred-Legs Heavenly Lord, and Dark Moon Fairy.
Regarding the Western Desert, the Fang family was causing turmoil, launching raids on the Western Desert's superforces in all directions with multiple successes. The Western Desert's Righteous Path was at their wit's end, and forces such as the Wan family were actively seeking aid from Heavenly Court.
In the Southern Border, Wu Yong had stirred up trouble. Originally inclined toward Heavenly Court, he had suddenly reversed his stance and directly joined the Heaven and Earth Family Great Love Alliance.
Star Constellation Immortal Venerable rejected the proposal to dispatch massive reinforcements to the Western Desert's Righteous Path, instead ordering nearly all of the Gu Immortals from Central Continent's ten ancient sects to fully deploy the Starlit Firmament Calculation Formation.
The Western Desert front would continue to be managed primarily by Zhou Xiongxin and Wan Zihong.
"The Fang family is a minor trouble. How many resource points can the Fang family alone raid? For a Supreme-grade Immortal Aperture, it is not much."
"The more the Fang family acts, the more clues they will leave behind. Sooner or later, we will have tracked down their location."
"The losses of the Western Desert's Righteous Path are not the losses of our Heavenly Court and Central Continent."
"As for Southern Border's Wu Yong, let him be. The time for Heavenly Court to mobilize its armies is far from now. He is ambitious, but he is not even a Half-Venerable. Are there not already plenty of ambitious Gu Immortals under heaven? There will only be more in the future."
"The merging of the Two Heavens has reached its most critical juncture — this is the evolution of the Heavenly Dao. The current Ghostly Reverend has lost all humanity; every action of his is driven by heavenly instinct. I have already calculated that a great upheaval will come before long."
"Our Central Continent must timely deploy the Starlit Firmament Calculation Formation, preparing for the unforeseen, to meet this great Heavenly Dao transformation."
After Star Constellation Immortal Venerable's speech, a Gu Immortal raised a concern: "Deploying this formation on such an unprecedented scale — it will absolutely be the first in all of history. This subordinate is deeply worried that such a grandiose, uncamouflaged operation will draw a Venerable's assault."
Star Constellation Immortal Venerable smiled faintly. "It is of no concern. I have long since accounted for it."
On that very day, Central Continent's ten ancient sects simultaneously dispatched massive numbers of Gu Immortals, all converging over the skies of Central Continent to place stars and begin laying out the Starlit Firmament Calculation Grand Formation.
The number of Gu Immortals involved and the height of their cultivation was something unprecedented in the history of humanity.
Such a colossal action immediately drew the attention of Gu Immortals across the five regions.
It was clear that no one other than Star Constellation Immortal Venerable herself could command such tremendous rallying power.
Numerous Gu Immortals speculated endlessly about what kind of power this grand formation Star Constellation Immortal Venerable intended to deploy could possibly possess.
Giant Sun Immortal Venerable had already returned to Longevity Heaven.