At the same time.
The Heavenly Court, Eastern Extreme Palace.
Where the members of the Jie Sect had gathered, the atmosphere was utterly different from that over at the Chan Sect.
Inside the traveling palace of the Great Emperor of the Eastern Pole, Saint Mother Jin Ling sat upright in the seat of honor.
Yunxiao, Bixiao, Qiongxiao, Zhao Gongming, Saint Mother Wudang, Saint Mother Guiling, along with Wen Zhong and Jiang Ziya, all took their seats.
Zhao Gongming was the first to speak, sitting with one leg crossed over the other, careless and blunt.
"Eldest Senior Sister, that Monkey has been born, and the frame for Journey to the West has been set up too."
"How much does this have to do with our Jie Sect in the end? How many benefits can we get out of it?"
Fairy Bixiao snorted from the side.
"Senior Brother, all you know is benefits, benefits. Can't you have a little ambition?"
Zhao Gongming was unconcerned.
"Ambition? Can ambition be used as merit?"
"Do you not know what state our Jie Sect is in now?"
"Master severed his own Saint position and is no longer a Sage. This time, in the allocation for Western Prosperity, our Jie Sect simply has no share."
"Whatever we can grab is better than nothing."
Crude as these words were, they were also the truth.
Sect Master Tongtian had abolished his own Saint position, and the Jie Sect's orthodoxy existed in name only.
The division of the Journey to the West merit had been discussed and settled by several Sages after sitting down in the Heavenly Court.
Without a Sage to back them, the Jie Sect did not even have the right to sit at the table.
Their only identity now was as officials of the Heavenly Court.
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