After resolving the matter of protecting the Void Abode, Zhang Yu had spent these days cultivating within the Guardian of Rectitude Palace.
During this time, he had traded a considerable amount of Mystic Grain for various precious materials, preparing to refine a true defensive artifact.
As for that divine tree, restoring it would require moving it out of the World Rift and planting it in an excellent stretch of land. At present, nowhere was suitable, and the commotion would be far too great, so this matter could only be postponed.
As the sole Guardian of Rectitude at present, the results of the court deliberations were conveyed to him by a duty officer. Only then did he learn that the Profound Court had added two more Guardians of Rectitude.
Not long afterward, Daoist Feng also informed him of the specific circumstances of the deliberations through the Heaven-Training Dao Canon.
Hearing that this matter had been proposed by Zhong Weiwu, he was not surprised. The intention behind it was plain to see: they wanted to dilute his merits by adding new Guardians of Rectitude.
There was no subordinate relationship between Guardians of Rectitude, and he could not order the two about. Yet although they now held the same position as him, in terms of their underlying standing, they could not compare with him.
This was because he had climbed step by step from the bottom, each step firmly established, with sufficient accumulated merits. It would be far easier for him to transfer those merits in the future.
Even when competing for a seat as a Court Executor further down the road, he would find it easier than others to take that position.
As for Mei Shang and Zhu Feng, though they were Guardians of Rectitude, they had little chance of advancing further.