Gathering of Immortals

At the border of the Immortal Domain, Moon Dragon Sacred Mountain.

The Blood Moon was bewitchingly crimson, dyeing all things red.

Immortal vessels surged onward, whipping up winds through the clouds as the Immortal Court's Retainers marched toward Great Jin. Beneath the shadowed heavens, more than twenty eerie figures gathered atop the mountain. They were the Heavenly Immortals under the Immortal Court bound for Great Jin. Among them was Ancestor Blade, Hundred Slaughter Star Lord of the Thunder Division, whose repeated assassination attempts in Azure Cloud Prefecture back then had all come to nothing.

The Immortal Court's forces were complicated. Of the Heavenly Immortals, over half had bizarre appearances: some had beast heads and human bodies, some bore wings upon their backs, while others were miniature, no larger than a palm. The other half leaned more toward human forms and paid greater attention to their appearance.

Most of the strange-looking Heavenly Immortals came from the divisions of the Four Emperor Lords. The Four Immortal Divisions were autonomous while remaining subordinate to the Immortal Court. Like the Heavenly Pool Holy Mother, they more often allowed wanton slaughter within their territories. Thus, their immortals took on all manner of grotesque forms and were far more disorderly. Within the Immortal Court itself, order was preferred. Heavenly Immortals each performed their own duties, and their appearances tended toward the "leadership class," like Supreme Immortal Emperor Zhang Baijie.

Within the Immortal Court, Heavenly Immortals each carried out their own duties and governed the world, each drawing in incense and faith. Naturally, everything was kept in perfect order. In private, they called the immortals of the Four Immortal Divisions and certain subordinate divisions "lesser immortals." No matter what cultivation realm a lesser immortal had reached, a lesser immortal was still a barbarian.

Naturally, these so-called "lesser