Qin Tian set a cycle of thirty thousand years, expelling the freeloaders from the Dao Realm in batches and letting them pass away in meditation in the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands, waiting to try again in their next lives.
The essence from the Dao Realm fed back into the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands, sustaining its golden age and keeping it from declining until the myriad Dao withered away.
Everyone was happy with the outcome. The Nine Heavens adjusted its condition and reclaimed one heaven, while all living beings gained much longer lifespans. Even the Immeasurable Heaven Lord came to no harm. He reincarnated, gained a new life, and became a Heavenly Emperor's disciple, with the possibility of surpassing his previous life.
It was a triple win: Qin Tian won three times.
After this battle, the atmosphere throughout the universe grew heavy. Wisps of Heavenly Emperor qi spread through the cosmos, coming from more than one being.
Qin Tian had seized the opportunity of opening heaven and earth to live a fifth life, but he was not alone.
Through their Heavenly Emperor imprints, the other Heavenly Emperors also took that crucial step, one after another.
Immortal radiance filled every corner of the Ninefold Immortal Pagoda. These were supreme laws, the pagoda's immortal rules.
Like a Mount Sumeru within a mustard seed, it looked only palm-sized, yet held a world within, not much smaller than the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands.
As a chaos Dharma artifact that had once followed the Desolate Heaven Emperor, it had once broken through the King Realm. Only later, after it shattered and withered in the decisive battle against the Weird Clan, had the Desolate Heaven Emperor sent it into the Lower Realm.
This was both to restore its origin and to have it