Even after Li Ya told Gu An that the Heavenly Court had been targeted by a mysterious power, Gu An did nothing. He continued living his leisurely life.
Aside from occasionally finding time to return to Wushi and the Heavenly Realm, he spent the vast majority of his days wandering the mortal world with Old Ancestor Honggan and the Great Profound Yin Sovereign.
Old Ancestor Honggan transformed into his old servant. As for the Great Profound Yin Sovereign, although his headless appearance was peculiar, in the cultivation world it was still understandable. Others all assumed he was a corpse puppet refined by Gu An.
Seas turned to mulberry fields. Over the long years, even Zhongtian underwent tremendous changes, let alone the mortal world.
The Heavenly Court's purge of outliers grew fiercer and fiercer. Because the Heavenly Emperor was busy in seclusion, the Son of Heaven Hongyang began contending with several Heavenly Dao Supremes. Under Blue Sky's gaze, they each employed their own methods, and Immortal Gods from both sides were constantly cast into the Heavenly Prison, or struck down to the mortal world to endure the suffering of Reincarnation.
The Heavenly Court's internal strife naturally affected all the mortal worlds beneath the heavens as well.
Some Immortal Gods, in order to escape the whirlpool of the Heavenly Court's struggle, secretly descended to the mortal world and brought disaster upon a region.
There were also Immortal Gods who, in order to sling mud at others, began using the forces they had left in the mortal world. Some Immortal Gods were wronged as well and had no choice but to flee the Heavenly Court, fighting for that single thread of survival.
The most important point was that most Immortal Gods had turned their attention to the Heavenly Realm and neglected their governance