Caught completely off guard by the sudden news from the royal court, Gandonggon Mingwen had no preparation whatsoever.
After gaining the support of the Judgment Hall's predecessor, the "Ming Judges," First Light Wang had indeed granted them considerable recompense. He had even permitted them to judge the Ming Clan according to morality.
But First Light Wang had, after all, been a hero of his generation. He could not possibly have held no guard against the Judgment Hall. The Zheming Society believed that First Light Wang must have foreseen the Judgment Hall gradually slipping out of control. Unfortunately, the only two cultivation methods leading to Mahayana were respectively held by the Light King and the leader of the Ming Judges. At the time, First Light Wang and the Ming Judge were both at the great perfection of the Mahayana Stage. Coupled with the Fire Folk's innate talent for escape arts, unless one could kill with a single blow, the entire civilization would be unable to bear the consequences of two Mahayana cultivators fighting.
Therefore, First Light Wang chose tolerance.
But he had also established rules.
The Judgment Hall's high-level combatants were not permitted to enter the core Yuan Magnetic Circle without a summons from the Light King.
At most, they could only make a pilgrimage to the Light Source from the region on its far side, separated from the entire Great Light God Palace by the Light Source.
This was also the foundation upon which the Zheming Society had been able to develop.
Without this condition, the Ming Clan of the core Yuan Magnetic Circle could not have cultivated a culture so deeply steeped in worldly characteristics. The Zheming Society as an organization would have been even less likely to come into being.
The Light King of three generations ago had