The establishment of the Demon Clan made East King Duke, far away in the East Sea, sense a threat. He immediately accelerated the expansion of the Immortal Court.
The Innate Divine Beings Da Ruo and Qingyuan, acting on East King Duke's orders, contacted people everywhere. With generous promises of innate spiritual materials and official positions within the Immortal Court, they drew the interest of many Innate Divine Beings and living beings.
The Innate Divine Beings Ling Lan and Feng Yu were the first to respond, while Innate Beings such as Po Yao and Xi Yan also successively pledged themselves to the Immortal Court.
The Immortal Court's strength greatly increased, and the Demon Clan was no less formidable. Both sides developed steadily within their respective territories while competing in secret.
Qingyu, Lingxu, Wuyin, and the others in the Heavenly Realm merely smiled faintly at East King Duke's covert recruitment attempts and paid them no mind at all.
How could East King Duke compare to the Heavenly Emperor? Now that they had all cultivated into Hun Yuan Golden Immortals, why not follow the Heavenly Emperor and cultivate in peace?
The Heavenly Emperor had now become a guiding beacon on the path that lower and Mid-level Innate Divine Beings yearned for. The weight of the Primordial World's foremost Innate Divine Being attaining the Dao continued to rise.
Deep within Buzhou Mountain, eight Great Witches, under the care of the Twelve Ancestral Witches, absorbed Turbid Qi day and night. Their physical cultivation continuously broke through, and their strength advanced rapidly.
Among them, Xing Tian was the most stubborn. Every day, he challenged the Ancestral Witches, and every time he was beaten black and blue, yet he never tired of it.
Recently, Gonggong and Zhurong showed no mercy to Demon Clan members from the north