Seventy-six Nascent Soul True Lords once again paid their respects to the Youth in Green Robes upon the throne atop the ninety-nine-tiered platform, then slowly withdrew from the Black Demon Palace.
Each moved with the utmost care, holding their breath and focusing their minds, not daring to disturb the Heavenly Monarch's cultivation again.
Many True Lords held respect and reverence in their hearts.
In history, had there ever been a Deity Transformation Heavenly Monarch who bore no sectarian prejudice, treated every cultivator with near equality, made no distinctions based on origin or status, and was willing to open the path and inheritances above the Nascent Soul realm for others to climb?
No!
At least in the era of Shuoyang Heavenly Monarch, the era of the Six Paths Patriarch, and even more ancient history, there had been none.
Shuoyang Heavenly Monarch prohibited all laws, allowing only his descendants to grow while killing every Nascent Soul Cultivator who was not of his bloodline.
The Six Paths Patriarch had been somewhat more lenient, yet he had likewise ensured the absolute ruling position of his personal disciples and lineage cultivators. Any outsider who dared touch the taboo would die in an instant.
For the Heavenly Monarch of this generation's Northern Plains to possess such breadth of heart was exceedingly rare. Many True Lords were sincerely grateful.
Jiang Ding closed his eyes.
At the summit of the ten-thousand-zhang peak of Yin Yang Yuan Magnetic Spiritless Mountain, all life was forbidden. Hundreds of millions of Great Sun rays gathered there, Yuan Magnetic Spiritual Light swept through the surroundings like a tsunami, prohibiting the Five Elements arts. Meanwhile, the Spiritual Qi of Heaven and Earth within a range of twelve hundred kilometers came rolling in, passed through a ten-thousand-meter-tall Sun God Wood, and poured into the circulation