"I never expected the Heavenly Court would place us here."
"Hmph, and where did you expect to be placed? Inside the Heavenly Court itself?"
"Everyone, the matter is already settled. Since we've already defected to the Heavenly Court, there's no turning back. Any internal fighting would be foolish."
Elder Hua Yu, Liang Jingjing, and Granny Skeleton — a group of cave heaven Gu Immortal leaders — gathered together.
Some of them wore unhappy expressions.
After defecting to the Heavenly Court, it had indeed used the method to transfer immortal apertures, even though their cave heavens had all absorbed fragments of the Ancient Nine Heavens.
But these cave heavens from the Two Days suffered devastating losses due to the forced transfer. Moreover, after the transfer, their positions were all concentrated in the Two Days above their respective races.
According to the Heavenly Court's notice, these cave heavens would also have to coordinate with the Myriad Stars Calculation Formation in the Central Continent below, becoming the formation's eyes!
"Fellow Immortals, I trust you've been well since we last met?" Qin Dingling said with a smile as she flew over.
The cave heaven masters maintained blank expressions — some even snorted coldly — but ultimately Hua Yu and Liang Jingjing stepped forward to greet her.
Qin Dingling fully understood the emotions of these Eighth Transformation Gu Immortals.
After these people defected to the Heavenly Court, not only had their home cave heavens suffered enormous losses, but the cave heavens were immediately exploited by Star Constellation Immortal Venerable to serve as the formation eyes of the Myriad Stars Calculation Formation.
This also meant that if the three Venerables were to go to war in the future and someone attempted to break the formation, these cave heavens would be the first to bear the brunt, becoming the front line of defense against powerful enemies, and could easily become sacrifices if they weren't careful.
After Qin Dingling exchanged a few pleasant words with Hua Yu and Liang Jingjing, her tone turned cold, taking on a reprimanding quality: "Fellow Immortals, we made it clear from the start. Heaven's justice comes at a price. Had we not intervened to strip your cave heavens of their status as heavenly vein nodes, would your homes still exist today?"
The other immortals all changed expressions.
Qin Dingling had shown none of this attitude when she first recruited them.
Now that it had surfaced, the cave heaven masters could only endure it.
When you're under someone else's roof, you have no choice but to bow your head!
In particular, Granny Skeleton and the batch of Gu Immortals whose cave heavens were located in the Ancient Black Heaven had been swayed and swept up by the grand trend, defecting to the Heavenly Court alongside Hua Yu and the others.
Looking at the other alien cave heavens that remained in the Ancient Two Days, Spectral Soul Demon Venerable had only destroyed cave heavens within the Ancient White Heaven — he hadn't laid a hand on any in the Ancient Black Heaven.
Granny Skeleton and the others naturally felt suffocated with frustration, but with matters having come to this, what could they do?
After lightly reprimanding these cave heaven masters and seeing that all the immortals had adopted respectful expressions, Qin Dingling gave a cold snort: "It seems you've all recognized the reality of the situation. Then, follow me to pay respects to Star Constellation Immortal Venerable."
Star Constellation Immortal Venerable was no longer within the Heavenly Court.
She had refined all the Wisdom Path Dao marks within the Heavenly Court, activated Wisdom Path methods to conceal the Grand Origin Formation that had long been built, then left the cave heaven and began refining the natural Wisdom Path Dao marks of the Central Continent.
But due to the shortage of immortal essence, the immortal essence produced by her immortal aperture's origin couldn't keep up with consumption, so during her spare time, she helped the Central Continent immortals build the Myriad Stars Calculation Formation together.
The Two Days human cave heaven masters, led by Qin Dingling, met Star Constellation Immortal Venerable above the Central Continent.
Star Constellation Immortal Venerable was inside her Embroidery House, personally embroidering, inscribing wave after wave of Wisdom Path and Star Path Dao marks, using the land spanning ten thousand li as her fabric, continuously weaving and painting.
Since the Battle of Destiny, after Primordial Origin Immortal Venerable's contingency had been triggered and obtained by Fang Yuan, and Star Constellation Immortal Venerable had been revived, she had begun improving and repairing the Embroidery House.
The current Embroidery House was not only complete but its power had become even more wondrous.
Witnessing Star Constellation Immortal Venerable's miraculous methods with their own eyes, the Two Days cave heaven masters were all awed and paid their respects in grand ceremony.
Their sight of kneeling in midair caught the eyes of the numerous Gu Immortals from the Central Continent's Ten Great Ancient Sects who were setting up the formation, boosting the morale of these Heavenly Court subsidiary sect members enormously.
Star Constellation Immortal Venerable glanced down calmly, immediately perceiving the complex emotions in the hearts of the Two Days human cave heaven masters — most were anxious and uneasy, with some harboring resentment and frustration.
Star Constellation Immortal Venerable comforted them expressionlessly: "Fellow Immortals, you are originally of the human race. Breaking free from the Eastern Sea's demonic lair is the righteous course for all humans. Since ancient times, the Heavenly Court has been the sacred ground of all humans beneath heaven, the highest homeland. Regardless of why your ancestors once fled into the Ancient Two Days to escape calamity, the Heavenly Court will not hold the past against you. Let the past remain in the past."
"Rest assured, the Heavenly Court treats everyone equally. From now on, whoever renders meritorious service will surely receive the Heavenly Court's fair reward. In the future, even the honor of joining the Heavenly Court and becoming one of its members will extend to all of you and your descendants."
Hua Yu and the others remained kneeling. After hearing these words, they all voiced their gratitude, praising the Heavenly Court's noble righteousness and expressing their loyalty and confidence in it.
Eastern Sea.
Fang Yuan gazed at the Ninth Transformation Immortal Gu recipe for the Heavenly Secret Gu before him, slowly exhaling a breath of turbid air.
This Immortal Gu recipe was now different from before.
The original Ninth Transformation recipe for the Heavenly Secret Gu had originated from the Facts Ice Floe — a product of Limitless Demon Venerable's own foundation, the result of digesting the chaos beyond heaven.
In other words, according to the current Heavenly Dao, there was no Ninth Transformation Heavenly Secret Gu.
Everything Limitless Demon Venerable had produced from digesting the chaos beyond heaven in his quest for eternal life was ahead of the current Heavenly Dao. The Ninth Transformation recipe for the Heavenly Secret Gu was one of its incidental results.
This was indeed a magnificent achievement, but there was still room for improvement.
After all, Limitless Demon Venerable had long since passed away, and even now that he had been revived, he was not a Refinement Path Venerable.
In the field of the Refinement Path, Fang Yuan was the greatest of all time, and no other Venerable could compare to him.
Therefore, Fang Yuan had combined his own Refinement Path mastery to further improve this recipe, making the good even better, achieving excellence that truly broke through the heavens!
Now, Fang Yuan understood the essence of the Heavenly Secret Gu like the back of his hand.
The Heavenly Secret Gu was essentially a Heavenly Dao Gu, but Fang Yuan had once mistakenly believed it to be a Wisdom Path Gu.
This Immortal Gu had originally been created by Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable, who already possessed Heavenly Dao mastery at that time.
Later, the Heavenly Secret Immortal Gu was refined by Inkstone Elder, one of Spectral Soul Demon Venerable's split souls, and was destroyed in the Battle of Righteous Mountain.