With one transcendent thought, myriad laws loosened.
Sun Wukong laid bare the key, and all five Dao hearts rose as one, leaping out of the cage of principles that had trapped them in certain death.
They no longer fixated on dismantling myriad laws, resisting rules, or clashing head-on with the mechanisms.
Instead, they looked toward the hierarchy of ranks, toward the high and low of the Immortal Path, toward the boundless world above an Immortal Lord.
The cave abode lay deathly still, Dao Resonance drifting and sinking.
The Immortal Lord of Myriad Laws remained invincible, but the five were no longer mentally confined to his game.
Zhu Bajie and Sha Wujin exchanged a glance, solemn spiritual light flowing through both their eyes.
The Zhu-Sha Duo had come from the Heavenly Court's ranks of immortals, bearing orthodox inheritances of Immortal Rank.
They understood the Immortal Path Order, saw clearly through the Heavenly Court's authority, and knew better than anyone the divisions of rank among the immortals of all heavens.
Each tier rose above the last, the hierarchy strict; authority increased with cultivation realm, and rules expanded with Dao rank.
The Immortal Lord of Myriad Laws was unassailable because he relied on the authority of order belonging to a sovereign of the Immortal Path, commanding myriad laws and sealing myriad Daos.
The simplest, most direct, most fundamental way to overcome an Immortal Lord was to stand above his rank.
Sha Wujin's mind stirred, and he was the first to conceive a thought.
The Heavenly Court's myriad immortals revered a single master.
The immortal hierarchy of all heavens fell entirely under the Heavenly Emperor's command.
The Heavenly Emperor controlled the immortal registers of the Three Realms, determined the ranks of myriad immortals, and wielded the supreme authority of the Immortal Path.
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