The Heavenly Court's Authority Unified, Peach Mountain's Knots of the Heart, and Entangled Love

Among the Three Realms, no one was more pleased with himself than Haotian of Lingxiao Palace.

With the Investiture of the Gods concluded, the Three Realms' order had been completely reshaped. The Immortal Court of today was no longer what it had once been.

In the past, the Six Imperial Ones jointly governed the Heavenly Court. Each side retained its own fortune and answered to no one else. Every Emperor Lord had the support of their respective clans and lineages, all planning for their own forces. The Heavenly Court's authority was scattered, its commands difficult to enforce. Though Haotian was the Jade Emperor, he had been constrained at every turn, emperor in name only.

Yet after the Investiture of the Gods ceremony, all gods across the heavens had been entered into the Investiture Register. Their cultivation, fortune, and Divine Positions were all firmly bound to the Immortal Court's Investiture of the Gods system.

From then on, the gods could no longer act out of selfish motives or seek private gain. Their every action was bound to the Heavenly Court's laws and the order of the Three Realms.

More than that, the Immortal Court's authority to govern had surged to unprecedented heights.

In the past, the Heavenly Court governed only the Immortal Realm. Now, the Nine Provinces of the Three Realms, the Four Seas, and the Netherworld were all nominally subject to the Immortal Court's control.

The old disorder, in which the barrier between immortals and mortals had been lax and immortals descended freely into the mortal world, had come to a complete end. Now, only the Immortal Court held the authority to permit immortals to descend and deploy immortal gods. The powers of Heaven and Earth had all gathered in Lingxiao Palace.

What pleased Haotian most, however, was the attitude