Gathering Storms
Shen Qiwu—or rather, this Golden Flower Bandit—was a clever man.
After exchanging only a few moves with He Ping—no, it could not even be called an exchange of moves; merely the effort of fleeing for his life—he knew that the other man had to be a powerhouse of the Manifestation God level.
Faced with an expert of this caliber, he chose to "surrender" with virtually no hesitation.
This senior is certainly no ordinary Manifestation God expert. The Divine Court would never permit a Manifestation God to remain in the lower realm, unless they are those Manifestation Gods from the academies who received investiture from the upper realm and descended after ascending across the barrier. Manifestation Gods of that kind possess divine offices—that is, they are qualified to be Orthodox Gods.
The Golden Flower Bandit thought to himself that, no matter what, his own affairs could not possibly have drawn the attention of an Orthodox God.
In this world, all Manifestation God experts were bound by the Divine Court Heaven. Once one's Primordial Spirit reached Great Cheng, one would be seized by the unseen rules of the Divine Court Heaven and forced to ascend. The rules laid down by the Divine Court could not be ignored; no one could resist that force of summons from the heavenly realm.
The Divine Court Heaven has strict rules. Aside from the Orthodox Dharma Academy, hardly any Manifestation God experts sincerely wish to enter the heavenly realm, because ordinary cultivators who go there merely become dogs for the Divine Court Heaven.
As the seventh prince of the Jade Phoenix Dynasty, he knew many hidden secrets and understood the internal situation of the Divine Court Heaven very well.
*Within the Divine Court, the nine Heavenly Kings each hold power in their hands and fight