They first formed a celestial army called the "Divine Punishment Army," and then expanded the size of the celestial army once the Heavenly Court recruited a large number of celestial soldiers and generals to fill the ranks.
Po Jun was appointed by Haotian as the Gouchen Shanggong Emperor, one of the emperors of the Heavenly Court, also known as the Gouchen Emperor or the Gouchen Heavenly Emperor.
The function of Gouchen the Great in the Heavenly Court is to command weapons, wars, punishments, etc., and he is also known as the Gouchen the Great who commands all thunderbolts.
Wuqu was then bestowed the title of Ziwei Taihuang Emperor by Haotian, the master of countless stars.
The Ziwei Emperor holds the reins of heaven and earth, commands all the stars in the sky, and controls all the gods and spirits. He is the master of all stars and the second ruler of the Heavenly Court.
The Ziwei Emperor's position in the Heavenly Court is second only to the Jade Emperor, and his main function is to assist the Jade Emperor in ruling the Heavenly Court.
As Haotian methodically established the Heavenly Court in the Heavenly Realm and gradually began to perfect it, the first powerful figure among the various races of Tianyuan to break through to the fifth level of the Transcendent Realm appeared.
By spending hundreds of years nurturing his body with immortal power, Zhang Sanfeng, the founder of the Wudang School, finally transformed his body and soul into an immortal body and an immortal spirit, respectively.
Because Zhang Sanfeng had already comprehended the laws of immortality before his immortal power had been fully transformed.
Therefore, after Zhang Sanfeng transformed his body and soul into an immortal body and an immortal soul respectively, he directly broke through to the fifth level of the extraordinary realm, reaching the realm of martial arts immortality, and becoming the first martial immortal in the Tianyuan Sacred Realm.
After Zhang Sanfeng became a martial immortal, he felt a heavy sense of oppression and intense malice from the surrounding world.
When Zhang Sanfeng broke through to the Martial Immortal realm, he received information from the rules of heaven and earth that the power of an immortal was not allowed to appear in the mortal world.
Once any living being breaks through to the fifth level of the extraordinary realm, they can ascend to the celestial realm through the two passages in the Origin Mountain Range that lead directly to it.
On the Tianyuan Continent, if any living being uses the power of the fifth level of the extraordinary realm, a terrifying heavenly punishment will immediately descend upon them.
This divine punishment, because it was not intended to kill beings who violated the rules of the Heavenly Origin Sacred Realm, was not initially very powerful.
However, the divine punishment will increase as the strength of the initiator increases, or as time goes by, and this increase is endless.
Even if someone offends the Heavenly Punishment and remains in the mortal realm for an extended period due to their overwhelming strength, it might attract the attention of a Level 4 Sacred Beast or the already established Heavenly Court.
The celestial soldiers and generals and the four sacred beasts who joined the Heavenly Court were completely unrestricted by the rules of the Heavenly Origin Sacred Realm when it came to unleashing their power in the mortal world.
For every being who unleashes power beyond the limits of the Tianyuan Continent, after triggering divine punishment, their only way to survive is to ascend to the Heavenly Realm or the God Realm.
Zhang Sanfeng sensed from the information imprinted in the rules of heaven and earth that any immortal who ascends to the heavenly realm will not be allowed to descend to the mortal realm again if they do not join the Heavenly Court.
Even immortals who have joined the Heavenly Court and are under its command are not allowed to descend to the mortal realm without orders.
Any celestial being that descends to the mortal realm without permission will be wanted by the Heavenly Court for violating the Heavenly Laws. In the end, they will be stripped of their celestial bodies and cast into the cycle of reincarnation to be reborn in the mortal world or the endless starry sky.
After sensing all the information, Zhang Sanfeng frowned. Even he could not escape this heavenly tribulation. Once he was involved in the heavenly tribulation, he would have to ascend to the celestial realm.
The only thing Zhang Sanfeng felt fortunate about was that the Wudang Sect had the Arctic sacred beast Xuanwu, and the Supreme Elder with whom he had a close relationship.
If something were to happen to him in the future, and he were forced to trigger the Heavenly Punishment and ascend to the Heavenly Realm, at least the Wudang Sect on the Tianyuan Continent would still have Xuanwu to help look after it.
After Zhang Sanfeng became a martial immortal, it seemed to trigger a chain reaction. The strongest people on the Tianyuan Continent broke through to the fifth level of the extraordinary realm and became powerful immortals or gods.
However, after these immortals or gods broke through, they also sensed the information carried in the rules of heaven and earth, just like Zhang Sanfeng.
After their breakthrough, instead of expanding their own race's power, they all instructed their people to exercise restraint and avoid conflicts with other powerful races on the Tianyuan Continent.
In case of any unforeseen circumstances, such as attracting powerful enemies that force them to unleash most of their strength and be targeted by heavenly tribulations, ultimately leaving them no choice but to ascend to the celestial realm or the divine realm.
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Chapter 118 The God King and the Pantheon
In the year 2800 of the Tianyuan era, atop the sacred mountain of the Feather Clan in the western part of the Tianyuan Continent, the Feather Clan's High Priest Feng Yan stood solemnly beneath the top-grade innate spiritual root, the Immortal Apricot Tree.
The top-grade innate spiritual root, the Immortal Apricot Tree, is now fully mature, and among its lush branches and leaves, a fruit containing powerful wind and thunder energy has been formed.
Feng Yan, whose cultivation had already broken through to the fifth level of the extraordinary realm and become a powerful magic god, kept his eyes fixed on the fruit that had grown on the branch of the immortal apricot tree.
Feng Yan's emotions were turbulent. He didn't know whether he should eat the fruit and improve his current cultivation level.
Although this fruit was produced by the Immortal Apricot Tree, a top-grade innate spiritual root that has always been of great help to the Feather Clan, no one knows what specific effects it has.
After thinking for a long time, Feng Yan made up his mind and reached out his palm to pluck the fruit containing powerful wind and thunder power from the branch of the Immortal Apricot Tree.
The instant Feng Yan took the fruit, a large amount of information contained within it rushed into his mind.
As the information contained within the Immortal Apricot Tree fruit was activated, a long-forgotten memory sealed in Feng Yan's mind broke free of its shackles and surfaced.
After sorting through the large amount of extra information in his mind, Feng Yan opened his eyes with a complicated expression and muttered to himself.
"It turns out that the Feather Clan members were conceived from my blood spilled on the sacred mountain of the universe after my birth."
"And the Feather God that the Feather Clan people have been worshipping all these years is actually myself. My essence is a true god walking in the world!"
Then, Feng Yan looked up at a certain place high and far in the sky and said with a devout expression.
"Father God, do you also wish for me to relinquish my identity as a member of the Feather Clan, inherit the divine position of the Supreme God King, and command all the gods of the divine realm?"
"Father God, please rest assured, Feng Yan will not let you down. I will definitely become a qualified God King and rule over all the gods in the God Realm."
"Then maintain the operation of all the rules of heaven and earth in the Tianyuan Sacred Realm, preventing any living being from destroying or desecrating it, so that your Tianyuan Sacred Realm can develop into a more prosperous and powerful place!"
After he finished speaking, Feng Yan's face was filled with determination. He had made up his mind to complete the mission that Yuan Hao had entrusted to him.
Feng Yan forcibly shattered the divine spark that had formed in his mind after he broke through to the realm of the God of Law.
Then he inherited the new divine title of God-King that appeared as his memories were unlocked, representing the divine position of the Supreme God.