Within the Reception Hall, the immortals said nothing, and the gods remained silent.
As Earth Immortals—indeed, standouts among Earth Immortals—when had they ever suffered such coercion? Not to mention that they now represented the various great divine systems.
Yet they had no choice but to admit that the other side truly possessed the capital for it.
The Human Sect had established its Dao, the Academy governs the world. Over a hundred thousand years of time, it had laid foundations incomparably deep and solid. Not only had criminal laws and decrees sunk deep into the hearts of the people, with the power of life and death held firmly in hand, it had also cultivated a great many Rising Stars.
To say nothing else, take Li Junqing. She had originally been merely a True Immortal. Though she cultivated all three teachings, her talent could only be considered above average. She had achieved True Immortal status only through the Alliance Heaven Dao Method and the Great Vow to Save the World, and she had almost no hope of stepping into the Earth Immortal realm.
Yet after joining the Myriad Dao Academy, bolstered by incomparably dense calamity fortune, she had forced her way into the Earth Immortal realm, leaving Ren Baimei and the other True Immortals, whose talents surpassed hers by no small margin, far behind.
One could glimpse the leopard through a tube; from this, one could imagine just how formidable the Myriad Dao Academy's accumulation over these hundred thousand years had been.
Without a Heavenly Immortal to support them, none of the great divine systems present would likely have been its match. Even tied together, they might not have been able to contend with it.
Though this assumption did not hold true now—they had Heavenly Immortals as their peak combat strength—could Heavenly