Half a month later.
Li Ping’an left the Dragon Palace, stretching lazily as he flew back towards the Holy Mother Palace.
The Heavenly Emperor understands the art of taking it easy.
The Holy Mother took only seven days to transform the Skycutter Great Array. The busiest mont for the celestial beings of all departnts in the Heavenly Court was on the eighth, ninth, and tenth days, which Li Ping’an cleverly avoided with his visit to the Dragon Palace.
With Li Dazhi and the Eastern King in charge, the plans were pushed forward in an orderly manner.
Because the preliminary work of the Heavenly Court was quite thorough, the Qi Cultivators were very calm about the matter of returning order to the Southern Continent.
So sects even organized themselves and patrolled the periphery of the Southern Continent.
While the Heavenly Soldiers and Generals patrolled the inner circle, they patrolled the outer circle, their enthusiasm soaring.
As for the Divine Court of the Southern Continent, they have long lost the capital to oppose the Heavenly Court. This ti, they were directly subdued by the Heavenly Court. Under the leadership of the Eastern King, a dozen outstanding godlings with complete personalities were absorbed into the Heavenly Court and appointed as mid-level minor gods, while most of the other godlings retired to the Heavenly and Human Realms with so nominal god positions.
Thus, the composition of the gods of the Heavenly Court not only included the Human Race faction led by the Eastern King and the Primordial Beings faction (Dragon-Phoenix Hundred Clans) led by the Queen Mother, but also a brand new faction of godlings.
After the Investiture of the Gods Cataclysm, the composition of the gods in the Heavenly Court may beco more complex.
This is naturally a good thing for Li Ping’an as the Heavenly Emperor, as the factions can check and balance each other.
Once he arrived in the skies above the Southern Continent, he did so inspections.
Li Dazhi and the Eastern King looked at him with eyes full of subtle grievances.
Li Ping’an laughed and checked everywhere, confirming that everything was just as he had discussed with the Holy Mother, and then ordered comndations for the diligent officials of the Heavenly Court.
The Heavenly Court has a complete reward chanism and won’t let celestial beings work in vain.
Now, the Skycutter Great Array had changed from its original ’sealed chamber’ form into a ’big tent,’ with the do and the main directions north and south still enclosed by array walls, but dozens of entrances were opened on the east and west sides.
Originally stationed Heavenly Soldiers had been redeployed by forty percent. Eight to nine hundred thousand Heavenly Soldiers were broken up into thirty-six military camps, scattered along the periter of the Southern Continent, constantly patrolling inside and out to guard against disturbances from monsters and demons.
The Qi Cultivators had begun actively signing up.
Sects and Loose Cultivators all wanted to enter the Southern Continent to select disciples. It was a major issue in the millennial developnt of sects, and Loose Cultivators held the hope of finding a good disciple who could assist them in the future.
The vast population of the Southern Continent had beco the most important resource to the cultivation world of the East Continent at present.
As for spirit veins and so forth, the current model was that they were uniformly managed by the Heavenly Court, and the Qi Cultivators had no chance to focus on these resources.
After completing the formal matters, Li Dazhi mounted a Black Panther and went off to the East Sea with Qin Wan from the Ten Heavenly Lords of Jinao Island who ca looking for him to join in drinking.
Li Ping’an watched the silhouette of his father, slightly hesitant to speak.
The Eastern King greeted him with a bow, and said: "Your Majesty, if you have no instructions, I shall return to Tong Ming Palace to handle governntal affairs."
"Eastern King, do not overwork yourself," Li Ping’an said softly, "let the youths handle so minor matters, letting them exercise themselves."
The Eastern King smiled: "Rest assured, Your Majesty, I am just here in Tong Ming Palace sitting around, so that they can work at ease. Actually, there’s often not much specific governntal affairs needing my disposition."
"That’s good."
Li Ping’an switched to a voice transmission:
"Eastern King, do you understand the history of the Ancient Heavenly Court?"
Why did the Emperor suddenly ask this?
The Eastern King blinked, bowed his head: "Reporting to Your Majesty, I can only say I know slightly or two things. The Ancient Heavenly Court once set the position of Imperial Scribe, dedicated to recording the daily lives of the Heavenly Emperor and Empress, and later when the treasury of the Ancient Heavenly Court was returned to us, I have read many docunts."
"Eastern King is truly learned beyond asure."
Li Ping’an smiled appreciatively and then asked:
"Is there any intriguing tale about the Second Heavenly Emperor East Emperor Taiyi?"
The Eastern King calculated, searching through his vast mory bank, and slowly asked: "From what I know, the Heavenly Dao should know everything, Your Majesty, haven’t you searched the Heavenly Dao?"
"Checked already," Li Ping’an said, "not just the Heavenly Dao, I’ve also copied the mory of Emperor Jun’s remnant soul, checked it before too."
The Eastern King laughed: "Why are you suddenly interested in East Emperor Taiyi?"
"Main reason being the Chaos Bell," Li Ping’an said, "I want to know why the Chaos Bell chose to serve East Emperor Taiyi, now it’s gone off to follow my Transcender Teacher, and I’m wondering if I can acquire this supre treasure."
The Eastern King’s eyes brightened: "If Your Majesty can wield the Chaos Bell, what fear is there of the Sixth Saint?"
"This, is only an attempt."
Li Ping’an continued:
"Also, I found a peak Great One Golden Immortal level warrior, the Ancient Ferocious Beast Nine-tailed Fox, sealed in the fox clan of the Heavenly Fox Tribe territory.
"She seems to have so entanglent with East Emperor Taiyi.
"The only thing that’s sowhat certain, though not entirely certain, but feels sowhat reliable, is that East Emperor Taiyi once tried to cultivate this Nine-tailed Fox to tempt so or certain masters, but in the end, things went sour between the Nine-tailed Fox and East Emperor Taiyi, leading to the Nine-tailed Fox being sealed by East Emperor Taiyi for one hundred seventy-eight thousand years."
The Eastern King calculated, behind him erged an Eight Trigrams Plate.
He said: "The Heavenly Dao did not record this matter."
"Hmm," Li Ping’an said, "I also find this strange. The Heavenly Dao only recorded the events before and after the Nine-tailed Fox’s sealing, and the Nine-tailed Fox even claid to be East Emperor Taiyi’s little disciple."
The Eastern King said: "Your Majesty suspects that this Nine-tailed Fox is hiding sothing?"
"I don’t know, I’m just curious if East Emperor Taiyi might have left so key items or sothing to the Nine-tailed Fox."
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