Only one avatar of Divine Lord Giant Wood remained. The Nine-Spirit Primordial Sage swallowed him and took him back, along with the other eight heavenly gods, to report to Taiyi Heavenly Venerable.
The Nine-Headed Lion had also sneaked down to the lower realms earlier and had only just been retrieved by the Azure Emperor.
His offense was relatively minor: he had gone off to amuse himself in a few worlds.
One day in heaven was a year on earth. He had spent several years in those worlds, gathering lions and awakening them into spirits to become his disciples and grand-disciples. Every day, he enjoyed having descendants clustered around his knees, feeding them sweets and playing with them.
He particularly loved being a teacher, lecturing the lion spirits on the Azure Emperor's Daoist arts and the cultivation methods he had comprehended himself. He had not actually done anything wicked.
Although he lived in Miaoyan Palace, he did not possess a Haotian Register. His conduct violated regulations but not the law, skirting illegality without constituting a crime. The Azure Emperor had gone to some trouble to retrieve him, then ordered him to redeem his offense through service by bringing back the people he named.
Divine Lord Giant Wood had committed a grave offense this time. Only those eight God Kings, thanks to their great past merit, had a chance to redeem themselves through service. Divine Lord Giant Wood had no further chance. Taiyi Heavenly Venerable sealed his memories and dissolved him with lightning to send him into reincarnation, ending this karmic sin between father and son.
As for the heavenly gods who had violated the heavenly laws and ordinances, all of them were stripped of their Heavenly Office Registers.
While they were still crying to heaven and pounding the earth, hoping to