The Battle Without Heavens could indeed allow disciples to become members of the Heavenly Palace!
However, before the age of one hundred, "new members" were only permitted to undertake "regular, short-term cultivation" at the Heavenly Palace.
After turning one hundred, they could enter the Heavenly Palace for long-term cultivation, but they could also remain at their original sect, serve it, and repay its kindness.
Only after five hundred years would they truly belong to the Heavenly Palace!
This was actually very important.
Because after five hundred years, their identities would change. If the Heavenly Palace ordered its members to attack their original sects, they would have to obey.
The Heavenly Palace recruited talent from the Ten Thousand Sects of the Sun, and those sects could not possibly give them up for nothing. That was why there was a rule requiring five hundred years of repayment.
After five hundred years, they would sever all ties completely and place the Heavenly Palace above all else!
This was the agreement between the Heavenly Palace and the Ten Thousand Sects of the Sun, enforced from ancient times until now.
In other words—
Before five hundred years had passed, they possessed the status of Heavenly Palace members, but they might not necessarily be able to carry out the Heavenly Palace's will.
Those five hundred years were also a period of trial.
Many "Heavenly Palace members" would be stripped of their status if they performed too poorly before they truly "settled permanently in the Heavenly Palace."
Thus, the trial Li Tianming and the others faced regarding the Heavenly Palace was only the first step.
The true test would last five hundred years.
This series of harsh rules was what allowed the Heavenly Palace to maintain its true loftiness.
Long Wanying continued:
"Precisely because of this, even