The Heavenly Court was established, and Emperor Venerable emerged. For a time, all the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands submitted to Emperor Venerable's Heavenly Court, while the Six Directions and Eight Desolations revered Emperor Venerable as the lord of heaven and earth, the supreme deity.
Thus, under the Heavenly Court's rule, the Myriad Worlds enjoyed peace for a time, prolonging this rare golden age.
Until one day, a decree personally penned by Emperor Venerable was issued from the Central Heavenly Palace at the Heavenly Court's headquarters. A ninth-heaven expert from the headquarters carried the imperial decree directly to the Primordial Ancient Star.
"By Emperor Venerable's command: the Kunlun Tribe lacks virtue, disregards heaven's will, and slaughters living beings. Your crimes admit no pardon. Yet Emperor Venerable is benevolent and, mindful of the virtue of Heaven and earth, hereby orders you to respectfully offer up the Immortal Bell. All four venerables of Kunlun, including Zhulong, shall proceed to the Heavenly Court to confess their crimes and await judgment. There shall be no failure!"
Emperor Venerable's decree not only shook the Myriad Races and Sects throughout the universe, but also chilled the entire Primordial Ancient Star and enraged all of Kunlun.
"Emperor Venerable, you brat! You dare act with such insolence? You deserve ten thousand deaths!"
The moment the Heavenly Court's Quasi-Venerable finished proclaiming the decree, the furious rebukes of the Four Venerables of Kunlun rang throughout the Primordial Ancient Star Domain. Even the nine heavens trembled beneath the Supremes' wrath. Unfortunately, beneath the Immortal-Suppressing Stele, it was all empty bluster. Not a trace of their ocean-vast Extreme Dao power could escape.
While Zhulong and the other three venerables raged impotently within Kunlun Mountain, the Heavenly Court's envoy did not linger to argue. He turned and left to report the matter to