Shi Feiyang's actions shook the Heavenly Realm and unsettled the gods. Heavenly deities from every quarter cast spells to see what had happened. Finding what they saw inconceivable, they either made divinations or sent people to inquire just who this formidable figure was, daring to bring an entire mountain crashing into the Heavenly Realm!
The two Patrolling Heaven Marshals had led all their subordinates in a relentless bombardment for so long, yet even those fearsome natural thunderbolts and flames had failed to subdue him. The gods concerned hurriedly gathered to devise a solution.
At this time, Emperor Ziwei had descended to the lower realm to undergo his tribulation, accompanied and protected by all Four Sages of the North Pole: Marshal Heavenly Canopy, Marshal Tianyou, Marshal Yisheng, and Great Emperor Zhenwu.
Emperor Ziwei was the lord of all stars. Most of the Divine Generals in the Three Realms capable of fighting were under his direct command, and the Northern Court was stronger in battle than the Southern Court.
The gods therefore submitted a memorial to Haotian Shangdi's imperial desk.
But Haotian Shangdi was not in Lingxiao Palace at that moment. He had returned to the Great Void Immortal Mansion to expound upon the Dao fruit of primordial unity with the Three Pure Ones and others.
Before leaving, however, he had left a jade slip and a True Edict bearing his advance approval on the imperial desk.
The talisman-bearing messenger had barely entered with the memorial when brilliant light burst from the desk, and the jade-slip document flew into his hands of its own accord.
Inside was a recorded image of Haotian Shangdi. He said that someone would ascend from the lower realm that day, and he had long known everything about it. Accordingly, the messenger was to take the document and