(P.S.: The previous chapter has been significantly revised. If you're reading it before 2 PM today, I suggest you go back and read it again. Of course, you can skip it, as the plot hasn't changed much. It's just that we revised the previous chapter three times with others. Thank you for your understanding, dear readers!)

"Huff, huff, huff."

Inside the empty hall, heavy breathing could be heard continuously.

Long Tian lay prostrate on the ground, utterly exhausted, cold sweat pouring down his face like raindrops, leaving a puddle on the ground beneath him.

Long Tian struggled to sit up, forcing a ferocious smile onto his pained face.

Having finally stepped out of the main hall, Long Tian could only sigh as he looked at the human traitors flying back and forth toward the Heavenly Court, intending to defect to it.

"Alas~ Fellow Daoist Wuxin, you are having a great time in the Four Domains, while I am dealing with affairs in the Heavenly Court. I wonder when I will be able to go to the Four Domains to fight for my father."

After sighing, Long Tian looked at the human traitors who kept landing outside the Heavenly Court's city walls to seek refuge with the Heavenly Court, and felt a headache coming on.

"I am Xu Le, a demonic cultivator from the Southern Region, in the late stage of the Dao Integration Realm, and I have come to seek refuge in the Heavenly Court."

A human cultivator, dressed in a black cloak and with an aged face, looked arrogantly at the Heavenly Court guards at the city gate and spoke.

The guard merely glanced at him and casually said:

"Since you have reached the Dao Integration Realm, go to the Recruitment Hall to register. After that, someone will teach you how to proceed."

"What? The Hall of Ordination?"

Upon hearing this, the demonic cultivator's eyes flashed with anger.

The so-called Hall of Recruitment is the place where the Heavenly Court publicly recruits servants. What is "recruitment"? It is the seal of a slave on the record.

How could the demonic cultivator not be angry?

He abandoned his own city in the Southern Region to seek refuge with the Heavenly Court, all for the sake of advancing further. Yet now, even a lowly gatekeeper dares to humiliate him like this.

The demonic cultivator, his face contorted with rage, roared, "You lowly guard, how dare you speak to me like that? I am no ordinary cultivator, but a Dao Integration Realm cultivator! Quickly inform your supervisor!"

Upon hearing the demonic cultivator's words, the group of humans queuing behind him all took a few steps back. They were not like this ignorant old man who had appeared out of nowhere, unaware of the current state of affairs in the world.

In their view, the old man was probably not long for this world, so it was best to stay away from him to avoid accidentally hurting themselves. As for reminding him? They were all traitors to the human race, who would care about a stranger?

Sure enough, just as the old man finished speaking, a figure appeared on top of the city wall.

This figure had a human-like head and a beast-like body, with three pairs of green wings growing from its back. Its Tribulation Transcending Realm cultivation was unabashedly displayed and emanated towards the human race below.

The humans below were forced to raise their protective shields to defend themselves against the oppressive aura, but the old man who had spoken earlier didn't even have time to raise his shield. He was pressed down by the aura and forced to lie prone on the white stone bricks.

At the center of the Tribulation Transcending Realm aura, the old man lying on the ground was bleeding from all seven orifices, his arrogance completely gone. He now knew that his words had probably offended the Heavenly Court.

The old man, filled with fear, begged for mercy, "I'm sorry, senior Heavenly Court, I was rude just now. Please, senior, have mercy and spare my life!"

The Heavenly Court senior above the old man ignored him. This appearance was also a way of establishing authority over the human traitor, letting these people know that the Heavenly Court was not something they, as Dao Integration cultivators, could offend.

With just a slight downward pressure on his hand, the old man turned into a puddle of blood mixed with red and white substances, like a pie.

"How dare you ants run rampant in the Heavenly Court!"

After the senior from the Heavenly Court finished speaking, he disappeared from the city wall, leaving behind a large group of humans who had recovered from the shock of that awe-inspiring power.

The traces left by the old man were casually cleaned up by the guards.

After what had just happened, the humans became even more respectful, and they all stepped forward to tell the guard about their origins, cultivation levels, and ages.

The guards registered everyone according to their strength and then told them where to go.

Although most people were heading to the outlying city to plant slave marks, they didn't care at all. After thanking the guards, they went to the outlying city.

Only a few slaves with good potential were assigned to the central Heavenly Court to accept some insignificant and trivial positions.

The Heavenly Court is powerful and will soon unify the four regions!

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