The seventy-six Nascent Soul True Lords once again paid their respects to the azure-robed youth seated upon the throne atop the ninety-nine-tiered dais, then slowly withdrew from the Black Demon Palace.
Each moved softly, holding their breath and stilling their minds, not daring to disturb the Heavenly Lord's cultivation again.
Many True Lords felt respect and deep admiration for him.
In all of history, had there ever been someone who hardored no prejudice over sect or background, treated nearly every cultivator as an equal regardless of birth or status, and was willing to open the path and teachings beyond Nascent Soul for anyone to climb?
Had a Spirit Transformation Heavenly Lord like this ever existed in history?
No!
At least, none had existed in the age of Celestial Lord Shuo Yang, the age of the Six Paths Ancestor, or any more distant era.
Celestial Lord Shuo Yang had forbidden all other paths. He allowed only his descendants to flourish and killed every Nascent Soul Cultivator who was not of his bloodline.
The Six Paths Ancestor had been more lenient, but he, too, had ensured the absolute dominance of his direct disciples and Lineage cultivators. Any outsider who dared touch that taboo would die in an instant.
For this generation's Heavenly Lord of the Northern Plains to possess such breadth of mind was extraordinarily rare. Many True Lords were grateful from the bottom of their hearts.
Jiang Ding closed his eyes.
At the summit of Yin-Yang Magnetism Spirit-Bane Mountain's towering peak, all living things were barred. The light of a billion great suns converged, while magnetism radiance swept in all directions like a tsunami, suppressing all Five Elements arts. Spiritual energy from heaven and earth within a radius of twelve hundred kilometers surged toward him, flowing through a ten-thousand-meter Solar Divine