Yang Huai returned to the Purple Tenuity Imperial Gateway with some disciples of the Highest Purity Dao Lineage.
They included Duobao, Holy Mother Wudang, and two other recently accepted direct disciples of Highest Purity, as well as some outer disciples who had passed through the Thousand-Illusion Reincarnation Formation—a total of several dozen people.
Fortunately, the All-Heaven Star Sea was vast. With numerous star gods under his command, Yang Huai divided them into several groups and assigned them to the star god squads before beginning his own plans.
On one hand, he summoned Lamp-Burning Daoist and the many Jade Clarity disciples, including nearly a thousand outer and registered disciples from his own sect. He announced that the Northern Polestar Edicts Court would soon be completed, warning the disciples to conduct themselves with caution from then on and not bring disgrace upon their master's sect.
To this end, he established numerous Northern Emperor Edicts, imposing the harshest punishments upon those who recklessly committed evil karma and slaughtered innocents.
There were also more than ten other precepts.
For lesser offenses, divine positions would be stripped away and the offenders exiled into reincarnation.
For serious offenses, they would be stripped of their status as lineage disciples, have all their cultivation severed, and be sentenced to the ultimate punishment.
What is planned in advance will succeed; what is not planned in advance will fail.
Yang Huai was doing his utmost to prevent the great sect from rotting away at its roots in the future.
Afterward, he appointed Xuanfeng and Kong Xuan as the principal and deputy masters of the Northern Polestar Edicts Court.
One was the foremost third-generation direct disciple of the Jade Clarity Dao Lineage, while the other oversaw the outer sect as an inner disciple.
The emergence of the many new Northern Emperor