The Heavenly Court, Lingxiao Palace.
True Dragons coiled around the pillars, while True Phoenixes adorned the walls as murals. Immortal talismans made manifest were inscribed upon Lingxiao Palace.
The Jade Emperor sat high upon the Celestial Emperor Throne, looking down at the assembled civil and martial immortals of the Heavenly Court. "Where did that disturbance come from? Thousand-Mile Eye, Wind-Listening Ear, go and find out at once."
"As you command."
Thousand-Mile Eye and Wind-Listening Ear were two immortals who had entered the God-Sealing List during the Investiture of the Gods Calamity. They had made little progress over the years, mainly because entering the God-Sealing List meant becoming immortals through their primordial spirits and abandoning their physical bodies. Or rather, their original bodies had already fallen in battle.
Even so, both possessed peak Golden Immortal cultivation. In the Heavenly Court, they usually served as the Jade Emperor's eyes and ears and were highly valued.
Soon, Thousand-Mile Eye and Wind-Listening Ear spotted Jiang Ming, who had just sprung out of the stone. At this point, Jiang Ming still needed Son Goku's instinctive monkey antics to draw attention. That would give him time to grow and allow him to find Patriarch Bodhi naturally.
The two soon reported Jiang Ming's situation to the Jade Emperor.
At this point, no one knew that Son Goku would be the central figure of this karmic tribulation. After all, the karmic tribulation had already emerged, and the higher one's cultivation, the more keenly one could sense the terror of the tribulation surging toward them.
After experiencing the Investiture of the Gods Calamity, many immortals had been frightened to the marrow. Unless absolutely necessary, they would never willingly become involved in a karmic tribulation.
Of course, this karmic tribulation was not particularly powerful. It could only be considered a