During this time, Chen Xuan learned from Lu Xingfan that the influence of the Heavenly Court was far from what it used to be. After the great war between immortals and deities in the past, the core combat forces of the Heavenly Court—such as Erlang Shen, Li Jing the Pagoda-Bearing Heavenly King, Prince Nezha, and Kuimulang—had either perished, vanished, or been sealed away in the Graveyard of Gods, their fates unknown.
Supreme beings like Taishang Laojun, the Master of the Tongtian Sect, and Yuanshi Tianzun stood as equals to the Jade Emperor; they were not under the jurisdiction of the Heavenly Court and would not offer assistance just because of its decline.
Of course, even in its diminished state, the Heavenly Court still held dominion over the four seas, the eight wildernesses, and the vast cosmos. Top-tier immortal domains teeming with countless powerful beings, such as the Yaotai Immortal Domain and the Langxiao Immortal Domain, still had to bow and submit to its authority.
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