Chu Tiange felt hard done by. His own thinking was actually much the same as Qiu Wuji's and Yan Qianlie's. He had no interest in joining someone else's faction. Cultivating alone, free and unfettered-how wonderful would that be?
It would also count as a little vacation, with no wife around to keep him in line...
But how should he put it... He had already felt that Yan Qianlie had helped Chu Ge so much, while he himself seemed to have done nothing to help and had even held him back once. He felt a little embarrassed about it. Granted, that might have been Chu Ge's own fault, but Chu Tiange was kindhearted, after all. Instead, he placed more of the blame on himself and felt somewhat guilty, so he was still willing to "make amends through meritorious service."
Besides, technically, he was still under Qiu Wuji's command. He would just treat it as going undercover on the Sect Leader's orders.
Fine, he would go and see what the Heavenly Emperor was like.
Chu Tiange was also somewhat curious about why this realm was like this. Shouldn't the Heavenly Emperor have known their whole group long ago, been extremely wary of their ascension, and felt compelled to wipe them out? How had things ended up like this?
He wanted to investigate for himself, too.
Chu Tiange left with the Confucian scholar. Meanwhile, with Chu Ge making arrangements, Qiu Wuji naturally would not get lost and wander aimlessly. She picked a direction at random and flew off, soon spotting a city of immortals.
There were no mortals in the Heavenly Realm. Even the lowest were "Heavenly Beings." It was a world where everyone cultivated.
The greatest difference between a so-called "city" here and one in the Mortal Realm was that it had