Shi Feiyang used Qian Kang to temper his disciples. Qian Kang felt humiliated as never before. He wanted to escape—even getting his wife out would have been enough—but neither of them was destined to get away.
He recalled how, several days earlier, before the final three days of the Demon Dragon's tribulation, he had resolved to go to the Bright Realm and kill him.
The message his revered master had sent down from the Jade Purity Immortal Mansion contained many descriptions of this Demon Dragon. It said he was a wandering soul who had come here from the Otherworld, and that the divination faintly revealed a thread of the Dao's workings. He had entered the body of a Demon Dragon on Dinghu Peak of Mount Xiandu in the Central Land, then made enemies of Wutai, Emei, and many others.
Even his master could not fully discern his origins and had told him to proceed cautiously.
The Lingkong Immortal Realm was ruled by the Heavenly Emperor, and all its immortals were bound by the Heavenly Laws. Thus, the Heavenly Emperor forbade them from interfering excessively with the worlds below the Immortal Realm, including the countless heavens. Even transmitting information downward as they did was strictly forbidden. Only Heavenly Immortals of sufficiently high standing could send messages, and even then, they needed an exceptionally close relationship with someone below, such as parent and child or master and direct disciple. Moreover, they could only provide information, not advice, much less make decisions.
Otherwise, if Heavenly Immortals in the Upper Realm made decisions for people below, that would amount to ruling them by another name.
To give life without possessing, to act without claiming, to nurture without ruling—this was called profound virtue!
The Heavenly Laws stipulated that immortals could not casually interfere in the