Boom!
Heavenly flowers rained down from above the Ninth Heaven as the Merit Golden Cloud came flying in, immense beyond compare—far greater even than the one that had appeared during the Heavenly Marriage.
The Mysterious Yellow Auspicious Cloud flew toward the Heavenly Court. The demons who saw it were overjoyed. This was a sign that Heaven had given its approval. Di Jun had received the Heavenly Mandate earlier, but it was only now, with the descent of merit, that everything truly felt settled. His exalted position as Lord of the Heavenly Court was now secure.
Heavenly Dao Merit flew down, then automatically scattered and divided.
Sixty percent went to the Heavenly Emperor Di Jun, Heavenly Empress Xi He, Tai Yi, Fuxi, and Nuwa, the senior figures of the Heavenly Court. Di Jun, Tai Yi, and the siblings Fuxi and Nuwa had all already reached the peak of the Early-stage Quasi-Saint realm. With the merit, they seized the opportunity to sever their corpses and break through to the Mid-stage Quasi-Saint realm. Xi He, however, had only recently severed her Good Corpse and had not accumulated enough, so she failed to break through. Still, her Quasi-Saint magical power increased considerably, and the mid-stage realm was not far off.
Of the remaining forty percent, thirty percent went to Kunpeng and the Ten Divisions Heavenly Descendants, while the last ten percent went to the many demon cultivators.
The Heavenly Dao was impartial. Its distribution of merit seemed to leave everyone satisfied, but Kunpeng was privately quite displeased. As the Heavenly Court Immortal Master, he had to split the merit with the Ten Divisions Heavenly Descendants. And what he received was not only far less than Di Jun's share, but also much less than what Tai Yi and the others had obtained.
Kunpeng did not