After the Tribulation and Chaos, Setting the Stage

After half a month, the matter of Mysterious Mysterious Palace on Nine Slaughter Island overseas had stirred up waves across the seas, but it had finally come to an end.

The Nine-Bend Heaven-Origin Great Treasury Sumeru Realm had also vanished without a trace in that battle. A few days later, news arrived that Haikong Zhizang, the "Sacred Bodhisattva" of the Star Venerating Sect in the Divine Wind Kingdom, had passed into nirvana.

Jiumoluoye, the head of the Sun Lotus Court within the Star Venerating Sect, inherited his position and became the sect's reigning Dharma King. At the same time, a new head of the Sun Lotus Court was chosen—none other than Ajabao, the seventh prince of the Divine Wind Kingdom's ruler.

This prince had entered the monastic life in childhood and was highly regarded by both Haikong Zhizang and Jiumoluoye. Recently, he had crossed the threshold of Dao Entry and become a Great Acharya. Without such strength, he could not have borne the position of head of the Sun Lotus Court.

The Star Venerating Sect had eight Dao Entry experts. Leaving aside Jiumoluoye, the former head of the Sun Lotus Court, the seven great Dao Entry experts—including Master Miguotian, head of the Treasure Banner Court, Yuantai Jiamo, head of the Thunderclap Court, and Dharma King Guangyin of the Flower King Court—were no easy opponents. For the seventh prince, Ajabao, to so effortlessly become head of the Sun Lotus Court naturally left people with a trace of doubt.

Within the Divine Wind Kingdom.

"Ajabao, you have possessed the Sacred Bodhisattva's relic for seven days now. With the power of the Flawless Mind Relic, have you comprehended a method for attaining Manifest Divinity?"

Jiumoluoye questioned his disciple Ajabao, who sat upon a meditation cushion.

Ajabao wore a Golden Thread Kasaya, his