Primordial Era: If I remain in Longevity Mountain, I will steadily attain sainthood.

Chapter 44 The Eastern King Duke Loses His Morality, and the Demon Race Establishes the Heavenly Court

While Hongyun was fishing, he also diverted his attention to the Qiankun World to comprehend the Dao of the Four Symbols.

In the primordial world, the establishment of the Celestial Court by the Eastern King Duke caused quite a stir.

The Eastern King Duke proclaimed himself the Immortal Emperor and recruited many powerful individuals. Many powerful figures were lured into joining the Immortal Court.

Meanwhile, on the Sun Star, after learning the news, Taiyi was furious.

He said to Di Jun, "Brother, this Eastern King Duke really doesn't want to live anymore. Wouldn't it be better to be like the Western Queen Mother? He insists on opposing us and even dares to proclaim himself an Immortal Emperor. Let's take action and eliminate him while he's still unstable."

Upon hearing this, Di Jun smiled and said, "Taiyi, don't be in a hurry. Isn't now the perfect time?"

"The Dao Ancestor only appointed him as the head of the male immortals, but now he has established an immortal court and proclaimed himself an immortal emperor. What is this?"

"This is a dereliction of duty, irresponsibility, and immoral act. If he had just stayed put as the head of the male immortals and even seized the power of the Queen Mother of the West, I wouldn't have dared to touch him. But now, he is courting death."

As he spoke, Taiyi's eyes grew brighter and brighter, and the anger on his face disappeared, replaced by a cold smile.

"Taiyi."

Di Jun then said, "You will follow my instructions."

"What should I do, brother?" Taiyi asked hurriedly upon hearing this.

Di Jun said, "Now is the time to stir up the people's hearts. You can spread the news that Dong Wanggong has gone against the original intention of Daozu in appointing him as the head of male immortals. Now that he has established his own immortal court and proclaimed himself an immortal emperor, he is no longer worthy of being the head of all immortals. Spread this news and add fuel to the fire. First, ruin his merits and reputation, and then we will be able to take the moral high ground and truly make our move."

"Brother, what a brilliant plan!" Taiyi praised him repeatedly and went to do as he was told.

Sure enough, news of the Eastern King's dereliction of duty and lack of virtue spread like wildfire throughout the primordial world, sparking heated discussions among the people.

Many immortals even betrayed the Celestial Court and no longer heeded the call of the Eastern King.

The Eastern King was sweating profusely, busy suppressing dissent while also being extremely angry.

Now that things have developed to this point, he naturally knows that this is a scheme by Di Jun and others to deal with him.

Unfortunately, this was an open conspiracy, and it hit his weakness right in the middle, leaving him powerless to retaliate.

On the contrary, the more he suppressed speech and arrested those rebellious immortals, the more he aroused the resistance of the immortals.

His newly established Celestial Court immediately showed signs of disintegration.

The Eastern King Duke was increasingly flustered. In fact, he still had room to maneuver and protect himself, which was to immediately disband the Heavenly Court and, like the Western Queen Mother, remove his title as the head of all immortals.

But how could the Eastern King Duke bear to part with this power?

So, not long after, with Di Jun's further encouragement, countless immortals began to publicly declare that the Eastern King Duke was not worthy of being the head of all immortals.

Emperor Jun of the Demon Clan is virtuous and talented, and should be replaced.

The Eastern King became even more anxious and publicly denounced Di Jun for his wolfish ambitions. However, Di Jun stepped forward several times to say that he had no such intentions.

And he apologized to the Eastern King.

This led to a one-sided bias in public opinion towards Di Jun.

Although it's obvious to anyone with eyes to see that these things are Di Jun's scheme to seize the Celestial Court and deal with the Eastern King Duke.

However, it must be said that Di Jun's methods were extremely clever.

Compared to him, Dongwanggong was worlds apart; he wasn't even worthy of carrying Dijun's shoes.

Not long after, a demon god "accidentally" discovered a great world on the top of Buzhou Mountain.

This great realm is composed of one enormous world after another, stacked one on top of another, totaling thirty-three layers.

Therefore, it is also called the Thirty-Three Heavens.

The demon god was overjoyed and informed Di Jun of the news. Di Jun summoned the demon race and publicly announced the news.

On the spot, a demon god spoke up, saying that destiny lay with the demon race, and requested that Emperor Jun lead the demon race to occupy the Thirty-Three Heavens.

They established it as the foundation of the demon race and set up a Heavenly Court to replace the Celestial Court, with Di Jun as the Heavenly Emperor, and so on.

These statements are presented in a series of interconnected points; no one would believe they weren't prepared in advance. Yet, they are undeniably inflammatory.

In the end, Di Jun could not persuade the demons otherwise, so he had no choice but to lead the demon race to occupy the Thirty-Three Heavens.

Soon after, amidst the uproar, the demon master Kunpeng, the emperor Fuxi, and the goddess Nuwa were all invited to the Thirty-Three Heavens.

The demon race is going to establish a heavenly court.

This news quickly spread throughout the entire prehistoric world.

As one can imagine, the Eastern King Duke was furious upon learning this news. However, what enraged him even more was that after the news spread, many immortals from the Celestial Court fled to seek refuge with the Heavenly Court.

At this point, anyone could see that the Celestial Court's power was waning, and the Eastern King Duke could see it too.

But at this point, the Eastern King Duke was already desperate and even wanted to mobilize the Celestial Court's army to attack the demon race.

However, for various reasons, the Celestial Army has been unable to assemble for a long time.

Meanwhile, the invitations sent out by the Heavenly Court of the Demon Race have spread throughout the world, and countless powerful beings have been invited.

And naturally, this also includes Zhen Yuanzi and Hongyun from Wanshou Mountain.

Zhen Yuanzi has emerged from seclusion and plans to go to the Thirty-Three Heavens to witness this grand ceremony. Hongyun, on the other hand, looks utterly dejected.

He was fooled.

The system's task for him was to fish until the Celestial Court was destroyed, but now, that time had not yet come.

Therefore, he had to remain on Longevity Hill.

Having no other choice, Hongyun had to hand Xuanfeng over to Zhenyuanzi, asking him to take him along to the grand ceremony of the demon race establishing the Heavenly Court.

As for Kong Xuan and Xuan Peng, since neither of them has taken human form yet, they naturally stayed at Wanshou Mountain to keep him company.

Zhen Yuanzi didn't know why Hongyun would refuse to go to the Thirty-Three Heavens and prefer to fish here instead.

But he didn't insist, and set off with Xuanfeng.

Hongyun remained, fishing with a melancholy air.

"Damn system, if I don't catch anything good, I'll fight you to the death!" Hongyun complained inwardly.

Meanwhile, Kong Xuan and Xuan Peng, who also couldn't go to the Thirty-Three Heavens, were even more determined to transform into human form as soon as possible.

The process of the demon race establishing the Heavenly Court went smoothly. Even if the Eastern King Duke was furious, he would never dare to cause trouble.

He had even begun to feel fear.

Because the demon race established the Heavenly Court, not all the great powers, but most of them went there, including the Three Pure Ones, and even the Queen Mother of the West.

As Di Jun, Tai Yi, and others offered sacrifices to Heaven and Earth and established the Heavenly Court, this triggered a response from the Heavenly Dao.

A huge golden cloud of merit appeared in the sky.

At the same time, the merit that the Eastern King Duke had accumulated suddenly shrank by nearly half.

"Boom!!"

The merits fell primarily upon Di Jun, followed by Taiyi, Kunpeng, Fuxi, and Nuwa, then the Ten Great Demon Generals: Bai Ze, Jimeng, Yingzhao, Citie, Shangyang, and so on, along with numerous demon gods and great demons...

Even as the number of demons dwindled, the benefits were distributed evenly, with each demon receiving a share of the merit.

Behind Di Jun, merit condensed and transformed into a huge golden wheel, its light dazzling. Just then, Di Jun suddenly groaned, and a golden fire cloud appeared above his head.

From within the fiery clouds, a cry rang out, and in a daze, everyone seemed to see a golden crow fly out, its wingspan reaching hundreds of millions of miles, as if swallowing the heavens and earth.

A streak of fire landed beside Di Jun, transforming into a Taoist priest who bore an uncanny resemblance to him.

(End of this chapter)