Yet not all 365 principal stars had given birth to Star Gods. Not even a third had—only eighty or ninety.
He had gone to great lengths to win over every one of them.
But fewer than a third had accepted his overtures and joined the Demon Clan. The remaining sixty-odd had refused.
Most of these Star Gods had emerged late. Apart from the Star Lords of the three Supreme Stars, only five had emerged before the Third Lecture at Purple Firmament Palace and heard the teachings there. Only those five had advanced to the Quasi-Sage or Primordial Golden Immortal Realm. The rest had reached, at most, Perfected Great Firmament Golden Immortal.
To settle the matter in one stroke, he meant to kill or forcibly subdue every Star God who refused to serve the Demon Clan, apart from Xi He, Changxi, and Purple Light. He, Taiyi, and every Demon Clan expert struck at once.
Of his and Taiyi's Benevolent and Evil Corpse Dao Bodies, his Benevolent Corpse Dao Body remained in the Thirty-Three Heavens to coordinate the operation. The other five each took on one of the five Quasi-Sage or Primordial Golden Immortal Star Gods.
The Demon Clan's thirty-odd Quasi-Sages and Primordial Golden Immortals, together with their Three Corpse Dao Bodies, each took on one of the remaining fifty-odd Great Firmament Golden Immortal Star Gods.
To ensure nothing went wrong—and that no disturbance alerted the Earth Court's experts or brought the Thirteen Ancestral Witches down on them—
he, Taiyi, and the Demon Clan's many experts joined forces to conceal the workings of heaven. They also crafted numerous single-use formation diagrams. Each was placed under the command of a Quasi-Sage, a Primordial Golden Immortal, or one of their Three Corpse Dao Bodies, who would lead large numbers of Golden Immortals and Taiyi