The comet remained silent, only relentlessly unleashing heavenly tribulations.

"Absurd!" Lü Yue slammed his fist on the table and roared, "The Heavenly Court is the hub of the Three Realms and Six Paths, a pure and sacred land for immortals. How can we allow those filthy demons to defile this celestial realm? I believe it is absolutely unacceptable!"

Upon hearing this, Song Yi looked at Lü Yue: "Your Majesty, you are mistaken! I have heard that the Sage of Shangqing advocated education for all, therefore the disciples of the Jie Sect are all-encompassing, including immortals, gods, demons, and monsters. Your Majesty is a disciple of the Sage of Shangqing, how can you say such a thing? Could it be that a hundred years have passed since the Investiture of the Gods, and you have even forgotten the Sage's teachings?"

These words were like a thunderclap.

"you!"

Lu Yue flew into a rage, his murderous intent fully revealed, and a swirling aura of plague emanated from his body. He was about to kill Song Yi on the spot.

Song Yi, however, ignored him and instead bowed deeply to Venus, saying, "Please, Heaven, consider this!"

"What Your Majesty said earlier makes sense. Demons and monsters are filled with turbid energy, and it would be inappropriate if they were to pollute the celestial energy of the Heavenly Court." After a moment of contemplation, Venus slowly said, "How about this, we can select some demons with good character and not too much karmic burden, throw them into the Dragon Transformation Pool, wash away their turbid energy, and transform them into dragons, so that they can serve as celestial servants."

"Heaven is truly wise!" Song Yi was overjoyed and quickly expressed his gratitude.

Then, Venus swiftly wrote down a divine decree: "You are permitted to establish the 'Golden Armor Battalion' under the Qingtian Observatory, with a force limited to five hundred, selected exclusively from demon cultivators below the Earth Immortal realm. The Golden Armor Battalion's celestial servants must be given priority for deployment by the Eight Departments of Heaven!"

"As Heaven decrees!"

Song Yi accepted the golden divine decree with both hands, feeling reassured that his previous plans had not been in vain.

Although the Heavenly Court has eight ministries and countless offices, prefectures, and departments, the system is essentially stagnant and difficult to change because the immortals and gods are immortal.

The reason Song Yi withdrew the immortal servants from the Plague Department and the Fire Department was to stir up conflict and throw a stone into this stagnant pool.

As expected, ripples spread, leading to this change, which ultimately created the opportunity for the reform of the Qing Astronomical Bureau.

Of course, all of this is based on the premise that the Investiture of the Gods is the foundation.

After all, if one were to achieve physical sainthood and ascend to godhood, one's cultivation and life would be entirely in one's own hands, and he truly wouldn't dare to offend a third-rank emperor like this.

Heaven Prison.

The giant spirit has returned from the North Sea.

This campaign by the Heavenly Court to eliminate demons was a Pyrrhic victory.

The Great Sage of the North Sea Underworld was originally a demon king of the ancient demon court. After the war between the witches and demons, he hid in the depths of the North Sea.

When Emperor Xia Qi transformed into the Great Sun Golden Crow and scorched all living beings in the primordial world, he used the resentment of all living beings to ascend to the position of Great Luo Golden Immortal in one fell swoop.

This time, Li Jing, the Pagoda-Bearing Heavenly King, along with Nezha, the Third Prince, led the Seventy-Two Earthly Fiends and the Nine Luminaries down to the mortal realm. Originally, it was thought that the overwhelming force would be like Mount Tai pressing down on them. Who knew that the Great Sage of the North Sea Underworld had been managing for tens of thousands of years, with countless demon soldiers and generals under his command, and had actually managed to make the North Sea as solid as an iron barrel.

The Heavenly Army had been unable to break through the defenses for a long time. If it weren't for Nezha, the Third Prince, personally going to Guanjiang Estuary to persuade the rebellious Yang Jian Zhenjun to come out of seclusion and use the Xianxian Sword, a supreme weapon bestowed by Yu Ding Zhenren, to sever the immortal body of the Netherworld Great Sage, the Heavenly Court would have lost all face.

Even so, the Heavenly Court was helpless against this Great Luo Demon God.

The Great Golden Immortal, a testament to eternal truth.

Its true spirit has long been entrusted to the river of time, reaching the realm where all things decay but I am immortal, heaven and earth perish but I am undying.

Unless a cataclysmic event occurs, causing the river of time to run wild and wash away the mark of the true spirit, it is impossible to completely eradicate it.

In the end, the Heavenly Court had no choice but to use a magic array to suppress him, along with his most vicious demon general, in the last nine levels of the Heavenly Prison.

After this battle, the Heavenly Court's power shook the Three Realms.

Most of the demon kings in the lower realms trembled with fear, lest the Heavenly Court's executioner's blade fall upon their heads next.

After entering the Heavenly Prison, Song Yi began to select monsters.

With a flick of his wrist, an ancient mirror appeared in the air, radiating a hazy golden light.

This is the Thunder Department's Merit Mirror, an acquired merit treasure. It can investigate the karmic obstacles of living beings, as well as their bloodline origins.

Since Han Zhixian has not yet returned from the mortal realm, the Mirror of Merit is naturally still under his control.

He didn't care about the current cultivation level of these monsters. The Thirty-Three Heavens were rich in spiritual energy, and were also nourished by the innate spiritual energy emanating from the Peach Garden. This place was itself a top-tier blessed land in the Three Realms, comparable to Kunlun and Longevity Mountain.

Given enough time, one's skills will always improve.

Perhaps in ten or a hundred years, many great demons at the Earth Immortal Realm will be born.

Therefore, what Song Yi values ​​more is aptitude and background, preferably being a descendant of the primordial era.

The so-called primordial remnants are all descendants of innate beings.

Those beings born under the blessings of heaven and earth are extraordinary from birth. As long as they do not perish, it is only a natural time for them to cultivate into Golden Immortals.

Since the primordial chaos was shattered during the Lich War, it has become difficult for innate beings to be born again. Therefore, those descendants whose bloodlines contain a trace of innate power are naturally much stronger than the acquired demon race, and have at least a 30% chance of entering the realm of immortality.

This probability is already extremely terrifying. You should know that among ordinary acquired demons, only one in ten thousand can become a demon immortal.

The Mirror of Merit emitted golden light, shining upon the demons in the Heavenly Prison.

The image of the monster in the mirror was blurry and indistinct.

After shining the light on dozens of monsters, the images in the mirror suddenly turned into a faint gold color.

It was a leopard demon, its body covered with spots like ancient bronze coins, and it looked like it had survived three tribulations of lightning.

"I am the Heavenly Broom Star Lord, ordered to establish the Golden Armor Camp." Song Yi walked to the prison gate, his voice not loud, but carrying a certain authority, "Are you willing to join? If you cultivate into a demon immortal in the future, you may well be able to join the ranks of immortals and enjoy the position of a true god."

The leopard demon stood frozen in place, then overjoyed, and immediately bowed down, saying, "This humble demon is willing! I am willing to die for the Star Lord!"

It originally cultivated in the mortal realm with a true immortal demon king, and was taken into the Ruyi Golden Pagoda when Li Jing was subduing demons.

The demon king was cast into the animal realm for committing too many sins. Because his karmic burden was not deep, he was sentenced to a sixty-year term. Now, having served only three years, this opportunity to enter the Heavenly Court and become a celestial soldier is simply a stroke of good fortune from heaven.

In less than a day, Song Yi had selected three hundred monsters from the thirtieth floor of the Heavenly Prison.

Their strengths varied, but without exception, they all possessed a trace of innate bloodline and had boundless potential.

In particular, he also encountered a half-blooded bear!

The bear clan was a top-tier ferocious beast in the ancient primordial era. They possessed innate divine strength, capable of moving mountains and filling seas, and their physical bodies were even comparable to those of the witch clan.

What's even more remarkable is that this black bear had very little karmic burden, and was only symbolically sentenced to ten years, with only six months left before its release.

Song Yi suspected at the time that this bear might be the black bear spirit who stole the cassock in the future Journey to the West.

That was a demon immortal that even Guanyin Bodhisattva coveted. Later, she took him under her wing and appointed him as the guardian deity of the mountain.

The bear has now passed the eighth tribulation of lightning and is still within the standard set by Taibai Jinxian. It took Song Yi a lot of persuasion to convince it and bring it under his command.