Time flowed like water, surging onward without rest, day and night, never stopping for anyone.
In the blink of an eye, nearly three hundred years had passed. The moment calculated by the Heavenly Court's Venerables was drawing near, and whole-sect ascension to immortality seemed just within reach.
For the Heavenly Court, Annihilation Heavenly Venerable's arrival three hundred years earlier seemed to have become a milestone, bringing forth certain changes that had already profoundly influenced the balance of the Heavens and Myriad Realms.
Ever since Annihilation Heavenly Venerable had joined them, the Heavenly Court's various divisions of Heavenly Soldiers and Generals had been mobilized with increasing frequency. Its banners could be seen throughout the Sea of Stars. In the eyes of the Myriad Sects and Races, Emperor Venerable was making less and less effort to conceal his movements. The day of the Heavenly Court's whole-sect ascension to immortality could arrive at any moment.
Thus, more and more people began seeking to join the Heavenly Court, to become one of its countless Heavenly Soldiers and take part in the grand undertaking of Whole-Sect Ascension to Immortality alongside Emperor Venerable.
While the Heavenly Court's own prestige continued to grow, its younger generation was also maturing rapidly, entering the fast lane of cultivation and becoming fresh troops for its various divisions.
Many of the proud talents who had joined the Heavenly Court in years past had now reached the Great Sage level as they grew older and gained experience. Some had even ascended to the ninth heaven, gazing toward the Quasi-Venerable realm. They could guard a region for the Heavenly Court and shoulder great responsibilities in the future.
Several cultivation prodigies worthy of being called peerless had already taken a step ahead of the rest and truly entered the Quasi-Venerable realm. They could