Road to Heaven.
It was an ancient passage stretching across the horizon, built from endless runes. It rose from the earth, leading straight into the depths of the clouds, piercing through the barrier between the Ninth Layer and the Eighth Layer.
The passage leading to the Eighth-Layer Continent was known as the Road to Heaven!
The Heaven Gate Branch was easy enough to understand.
Heaven Gate was a superpower from the Eighth Layer, perhaps even from higher layers!
The Heaven Gate Branch was the name of the force that controlled the passage to the Eighth Layer in the Ninth Layer.
They controlled the Road to Heaven, monopolized the path of ascension, and regarded the Ninth Layer as a pasture. They penned in living beings and siphoned away Origin. Their evil and power were far beyond the likes of the Black Bull Sect and Blackwater City!
Before the rise of the Heavenly Dao Sect, the Heaven Gate Branch had already been a taboo no one in the Ninth Layer dared mention!
Though they never took part in the Ninth Layer's struggles, they set the rules that governed the entire Ninth Layer!
Once every ten thousand years, all forces had to pay Heaven Gate a "Realm Tax" according to their level of strength!
When Blackwater City had been destroyed before, they had found an account book!
Blackwater City, a mere beginner True Immortal force, had paid a Realm Tax of an utterly shocking scale!
One million Immortal Crystals, one hundred thousand ten-thousand-year spirit herbs, one thousand gifted virgin boys and girls, and the Origins of ten top-tier bloodlines!
If they did not pay, or failed to pay enough.
There was only one outcome next time.
Extermination!
It was not merely the destruction of a sect, but the blood sacrifice of an entire