For some unknown reason, the Heavenly Court continued along the trajectory of fate to erupt into the most intense power struggle in history.
Perhaps there was no reason, merely the usual ailments accumulated over time that had grown quite severe by this day. And when the Curtain-Rolling General, once valued by the Jade Emperor, was demoted, and Marshal Tian Peng—who held an exalted status and immense power under the command of Ziwei the Great Emperor—also became a sacrifice to the power struggles of various factions, all sides seized this moment to launch an assault on supreme political power!
As for those figures of the Ancestor God tier, either they had long grown weary of these endless and incorrigible struggles among immortals and deities, or they had already transcended this realm, their mental states existing in a different world entirely from theirs, and remarkably, none of them intervened!
Thus, in this power struggle, the combat organs most capable of influencing governance underwent a massive reshuffling. Many divine generals who had overseen the major celestial soldier forces for thousands upon thousands of years were demoted, and some even suffered imprisonment and decapitation on trumped-up charges!
The vacant positions were either left empty or replaced by new divine generals pushed forward by various major factions, even sparking multiple conflicts between celestial soldiers and divine generals as a result!
Because of this single affair, the Heavenly Court, which had ruled the world for an unknown number of years, saw its entire combat apparatus pushed to the brink of paralysis!
The once-powerful military department was thoroughly thrown into chaos!
The group of deities in the Heavenly Court who fancied themselves the sovereigns of heaven and earth and always believed that Laozi was number one under heaven might have realized the threat posed by Buddhism and