"Why did I suddenly feel the urge to visit the Heavenly Court..."
If it had merely been a simply contaminated Heavenly Court, Adam would not have been interested.
But after seeing Wang Lingguan in his current state, Adam felt that if the Heavenly Court had been contaminated into something this absurd, he really did want to see it with his own eyes.
However, the matters of Yellow Flower Temple and Pan Si Ridge seemed to conceal more than just Immortals raising mortal human-insects as ingredients. There also appeared to be subtle struggles between Immortals.
Adam turned to Crane Immortal's entry in the Shadow Spirit Scroll.
How should he put it? This appearance perfectly matched how people in the earliest eras had imagined Immortals: shedding one's form to transcend the mundane, growing feathers and ascending to immortality. In that age, those were not symbolic expressions, but literal ones.
People of that era believed that Immortals possessing miraculous powers would look different from ordinary people, bearing the traits of dragons, snakes, birds... and other creatures.
And the Overlapping Crown, with its bird's head and human body, happened to be how people of that time had imagined Lord Lao.
Adam's finger brushed over Crane Immortal's story in the Shadow Spirit Scroll. The chicken that had once eaten the mountain of rice in Pi Xiang Hall could actually be described as holding a post there, and had now even been promoted to become the new Mao Ri Xing Jun.
At last, Adam's finger stopped on Crane Immortal's "sorrow" over the former Mao Ri Xing Jun's departure.
Eastern Heaven and Western Heaven were not on good terms, but Eastern Heaven itself was not entirely united either.
Setting aside those Immortals who truly existed, this could also be viewed as another question: the distinction between Daoism