Unbeknownst to everyone present, when Tang Jie achieved Immortal Platform, a great storm suddenly formed in the Rosecloud Domain.
Snakes of lightning writhed across the heavens—the signs of a brewing Heavenly Tribulation.
Ascending to Immortality involved seizing the world’s spiritual energy to cultivate a more powerful self, and this would naturally incur a Heavenly Tribulation. Normally, a cultivator had yet to reform their physical body at this point, which made it very difficult to fend off a Heavenly Tribulation. In these circumstances, they either needed to rely on the help of their fellow sect members or else form a basic Immortal body before the Heavenly Tribulation fell, relying on this body to resist.
But Tang Jie used neither of these methods, because he wasn’t even in the Great Stellar Chiliocosm.
He was in his own small world, and he was the Domain Lord, so there was naturally no Heavenly Tribulation.
While the Great Stellar Chiliocosm had sensed the ascendance of an Immortal, it couldn’t find Tang Jie’s location and couldn’t bring down the Heavenly Tribulation.
Tang Jie didn’t need to worry about the Tribulation and could focus all his energy on forming his Immortal body, constantly washing and refining it again and again.
This was another advantage of ascending in his own small world. It was a safe environment that let him grow even more powerful.
When Tang Jie’s ascension was completed, the Heavenly Tribulation had yet to find its target, so it could only fade away. The unaware denizens of the Rosecloud Domain took it for some ordinary shift in the weather, and only the likes of Yun Tianlan knew what had actually happened. But while the Earth Immortals of the other sects could only guess that Tang Jie had ascended to Earth Immortal and had somehow managed to avoid the Heavenly Tribulation, Yun Tianlan understood the truth. Faintly smiling, he said, “I can’t believe he managed to raise his small world to such a level.”
For him to do this at Violet Palace was practically absurd.
But Tang Jie had done it.
To this, Yun Tianlan could only say, “Incredible.”
Meanwhile, in the small world, the moment Tang Jie ascended to Immortality, the world began to rumble.
A majestic will spread to every corner of this world.
All creatures of the Yellow Court World felt this will and once more prostrated to the heavens.
At that moment, their hearts, their Fates, their everything became closely linked to Tang Jie.
Tang Jie waved his hand, and a golden light spilled out of his hand.
That was the power of Fate.
When he first comprehended this Dao, Tang Jie had three choices. He had chosen to weave Fate, to establish the Dao of the Yellow Court.
Alas, he had only the ambition and not the strength to realize it.
Only today, after reaching Immortal Platform, could he finally create the Web of Fate.
Tang Jie’s control over the Yellow Court World’s Fate was greatly boosted, going from only slight influence to profound control. In the past, he had been worried about the creatures of this world surpassing him and refusing his control, so he had limited their cultivation to one level below his. Now, however, so long as he set their Fates, all creatures would naturally do as he wished.
“Domain Lord, congratulations on attaining Immortal Platform! Undying and everlasting, enduring for eternity!”
He Chong, the Azure Dragon, the Lithos Dragon, the Flame Celestial Sovereign, and the Vermillion Bird appeared and congratulated Tang Jie.
Tang Jie ignored them, continuing to feel out his new powers. After a long while, he sighed. “I’ve finally reached the summit of the Immortal path. But there is more than just a single mountain, and I’ve only surmounted the first. There is still a higher second summit, a third, a fourth, and perhaps even higher heights…”
Xu Miaoran floated over. “‘Higher heights’? Is there something above Dao-Proving Saint Immortal?”
“Who knows?” Tang Jie casually replied. “Weren’t the True Immortals of the past called ‘Supreme’? But in the end, the Five Realms and Fourteen Tiers became Sixteen Tiers. How can we know that there won’t be a seventeenth?”
“If that’s the case, then when will the Immortal path end?”
Tang Jie answered, “The Immortal path… has no end.”
Tang Jie’s words made everyone fall silent.
Yes, the Immortal path had no end.
Those who had yet to reach the summit were working to get there.
Those who had reached the summit were working to find a new path, a new summit!
The Immortal path was endless!
But regardless of what was in store for the future, everyone still had to work their way forward, step by step.
Tang Jie’s immense Divine Will scanned the Yellow Court World, informing him of the Yellow Court World’s condition.
He said, “This ascension to Immortality, due to excessive refining, has exhausted this world’s spiritual energy. If this situation is not quickly resolved, it will affect the entire world. I must request that all of you release your Immortal energy to stabilize the situation. Once I depart, I will think of a method to replenish this world.”
“As the Domain Lord commands,” they replied, upon which they released their Immortal energy to maintain the world’s equilibrium.
They initially believed that Tang Jie becoming an Immortal should have taken only a limited amount of spiritual energy, but as they released their Immortal energy, the four Immortals found that they needed to release seventy percent of their energy to stabilize the world—an astounding figure.
Didn’t this mean that Tang Jie had enough Immortal power to match almost all four of them?
Although an Immortal’s strength couldn’t be measured in this way, it was still a shocking amount of Immortal energy, and this wasn’t even considering that Tang Jie could challenge an Immortal Platform expert by himself before all this.
With their shock, they gained even more reverence for Tang Jie.
Meanwhile, Tang Jie set about his own business. He grabbed at the air, summoning vast quantities of soil, which his Divine Will molded into a beautiful palace complex.
He then began to emit a five-colored light, the power of the Five Elements.
The power of the Five Elements constituted all things and encompassed all variations.
Through the power of the Five Elements, the soil became solid and tough, transforming into various metals, jewels, wood, and water, filling the palace with life and beauty.
The palace complex slowly rose into the air.
“The power of Genesis,” the Azure Dragon murmured, enviously looking up at that palace.
Creating a palace in the sky from nothing was difficult, even for an Immortal. Tang Jie could do this not merely because of his Five Elements power. While the Five Elements were the basis of all physical matter, to grant this matter spirituality, turning it into more than ordinary existences, required the power of Genesis. The power of Genesis was under the Dao of Fate, and Tang Jie had only been able to use it once he was able to weave the Fate of this world.
Even so, this palace created through the power of Genesis would be immediately turned back into its original form if it were taken to the outside world. Only those natural resources that had truly absorbed the spiritual energy of the world would be unaffected. If this weren’t the case, Tang Jie would be able to create countless rare resources with a single thought.
Although he couldn’t bring it out, this palace had a special function in this world.
Tang Jie once more grabbed at the air, upon which the Yellow Court World’s Heavenly Dao Clock appeared.
Tang Jie took out a brush and began to write a new Great Dao upon it.
According to the new Great Dao laws he was establishing, from now on, the Yellow Court World would be divided into an upper plane and a lower plane.
The cultivators of the Yellow Court World were also no longer restricted to Violet Palace and could finally attain Immortal Platform. But anyone who reached this level had to enter the upper plane and reside in the palace in the sky that Tang Jie had created, no longer able to meddle in the affairs of the lower plane.
From now on, mortal and Immortal would be divided.
Establishing the Dao was drafting laws for the world. Now that this law was established, the cultivators of the Yellow Court World could not avoid or defy this law, unless they went against the Dao like the Martial Lord.
Tang Jie had set down this law so that he could more easily control the experts of this place. Domain Lords had to deal with an eternal contradiction. On one end, if the existences in a small world were too weak, they couldn’t be of much help. But if the existences of the small world were too strong, they became difficult to control and could rebel. Even with the strengthened control of the Dao of Fate, it was impossible for there to not be people who defied Fate and went against the Dao. Those who cultivated the Dao were normally those who defied the heavens, so one always needed to be careful with them. One needed to both use them and be on guard against them, which was what Tang Jie sought to do with this division.
After all, within the domain, he held authority over life and death. He didn’t have such powers outside it.
Starting from today, Immortal Platform experts like the Azure Dragon would reside in the Heavenly Palace. As there were few residents, Tang Jie could more clearly observe their actions. Finally, above the Heavenly Palace, Tang Jie expended a great deal of Immortal energy to set up a passage.
From now on, the people of this world could go in and out using this passage, without Tang Jie needing to personally bring them in and out. Although this lowered the safety of this world, it was also necessary to make the small world more useful.
Otherwise, whenever he fought with someone, if he also had to go in and out of the Yellow Court World to bring out his allies, wouldn’t he just be adding to his burdens? Most importantly, when going in and out of the Yellow Court World, he would also be exposing the Mountain River State Diagram to his enemies. Unless he made preparations beforehand, if it were attacked, the entire small world might be destroyed, which was a risk he couldn’t afford.
The passage was the best solution for this problem.
At this stage of development, Tang Jie could finally convert his investment in the Yellow Court World into a strategic resource.
Once this was done, Tang Jie announced, “Starting from now, all of you will live in this palace. He Chong, Duan Fourth, while the two of you have yet to reach Immortal Platform, you played an undeniable role in the creation of the Yellow Court, so you are permitted to reside within the Heavenly Palace. In addition, the Heavenly Palace is only in its basic form, and there are still many other functions that it requires. I cannot place the attention needed on this aspect, so I will need to rely on all of you to perfect it.”
Everyone affirmed.
Tang Jie added, “Of course, as there are so few people in this Heavenly Palace, it might be too boring. Thus, I have loosened the laws so that you can go to the lower plane and look around when you have nothing else to do, just so long as you don’t interfere with its development. If you still feel bored, you can choose to train the people of the lower plane, establishing your own sects so that they can grow stronger even faster. If that isn’t enough, I have left a message bell in the palace. If you ring the bell, I will be notified and answer your call. But if you disturb me for no good reason, I will have this bell removed.”
Everyone indicated that they understood.
As the Yellow Court World developed more and more, it gained new rules and better functions.
After doing everything that needed to be done, Tang Jie took Xu Miaoran and departed the Yellow Court World. As he left, he kept the passage slightly open so that spiritual energy from the outside world could flow into the Yellow Court World. While it wasn’t a lot, it was a constant stream of energy.
Naturally, the greater the gain, the greater the risk, and by leaving this small opening, he had essentially left a crack in this world. While experts like the Azure Dragon couldn’t escape through this crack, creatures that were a little weaker could. Thus, Tang Jie also laid down a layer of Astral Winds around the Heavenly Palace, a barrier that the creatures of the lower plane couldn’t break through. Still, some lucky people with treasures or arts that resisted the Astral Winds might still break through.
But Tang Jie didn’t take any further countermeasures. It wasn’t that he couldn’t strengthen the Astral Winds, but if he did, he would also block the passage letting in spiritual energy.
There was a balance in such things. Seeking absolute defense meant that one would have to block all passages, and leaving others a small chance also meant giving oneself a small opportunity. The bigger the chances he gave, the more opportunities he would grant himself.
Tang Jie’s small world was just getting off the ground, so he didn’t dare to gamble with it. He preferred letting in a small trickle of spiritual energy so as to maintain control. As for replenishing the small world, it would have to come through additional investment. This small passage alone wouldn’t be enough.
As he was doing all this, Tang Jie came to realize that the world he had created was rather similar to the world he resided in, the difference being a matter of size.
It was no wonder people said that a small world was a way to comprehend the Daos.
He found that there was nothing wrong with the statement.
Writing laws for the world was establishing its Daos.
In the process of establishing Daos, one would naturally comprehend more of the Daos of the greater world.
But as the worlds were on two different levels, there were many things about the small world that could only be used for reference.
Still, this reference could prove immensely valuable.
Tang Jie could already tell that ascending to Immortality and establishing the Dao had increased his understanding of the Great Daos by a large margin.
And this understanding was in all aspects.