The First Seat Daoist considered for a moment, then nodded. "This matter truly cannot be decided by us alone. I will present it to the various Chief Controllers."
Chen Tingzhi gave a respectful salute and said no more.
Taking this opportunity, the Court Controllers also discussed the remaining miscellaneous matters in passing.
As the confrontation with Upper Firmament Heaven had intensified of late, new developments emerged at every interval. Most required the Upper Layer to weigh them and arrange countermeasures. The regular Court deliberations held in the middle of each month could no longer handle so many matters, and thus these hall deliberations had gradually taken over the role of the former Court deliberations.
After this discussion concluded, the Court Controllers departed one after another.
The First Seat Daoist alone remained in the hall. His figure flickered faintly, changing from an insubstantial phantom into solid form. He then turned and walked outside. The halls around him gradually separated and dissolved, revealing the sea of clouds beyond.
Above him appeared an immense, endlessly rotating vortex of clouds. Its rumbling momentum was like a rent in the heavens.
He raised his head for a look. A stretch of Ruiguang auspicious clouds rose around him and carried him drifting upward into the cloud vortex.
As he entered it, the rumbling swiftly receded, while all the radiance and vapors around him settled into stillness.
He felt as if he were rising upward, yet also as if he were descending. In the end, he could no longer tell whether he stood motionless in place or was still moving onward.
Until, at a certain moment, the sea of clouds gradually dispersed, and an immeasurably vast jade wall appeared above. It looked like the earth had been overturned, pressing down with immense force.
The First Seat Daoist