Soon, all the Chaos Divine Crystals that had fallen into the Immortal Realm had been divided up.
During this chaotic period, Sun Zhuo rushed from place to place. Later, he simply brought his trusted subordinates and the Heavenly Court's Heavenly Soldiers and Generals into the scramble as well, trying his utmost to bring the situation under control. Yet one lone tree could not hold up the sky.
There were simply too many heroes and formidable figures from all corners of the world in the Heavenly Court. The vast majority were Renowned Masters at late Earth Rank or above, each a seasoned schemer with extraordinary cunning. With them determined to fight for the crystals, how could Sun Zhuo alone stop them?
In the end, Yu Shixian and the others simply came to his door with the divine crystals they had gathered and urged him to give up.
"Let it go, Sun Zhuo. At this point, there's no reversing what has happened. We can only follow the crowd and tacitly accept this, preserving our policy of co-governance of the Heavenly Realms!"
Sun Zhuo was startled by these words. "Grand Elder Yu, you..."
Yu Shixian met his gaze. "That's right. As senior members of the Azure Cloud Sect, we too took this opportunity to secure divine crystals suited to our own Dao!"
At this, he sighed softly and said in a subdued voice, "Looking back now, we may have fallen into someone's openly laid scheme. But... the chance to advance to Heaven Tier and enjoy true immortality and freedom was right before us. Who could give it up? Even if I could, and even if our elders could, the other powerful figures would never do so!"
"You saw the situation just now with your own eyes. If we hadn't joined the scramble and