The Three Sects of Xuanmen and the Western Sect, the orthodox lineages of immortals, Buddhas, and deities, have completely submitted to the rule of the Human Heavenly Court!
For beings like them, such as the Chan Sect immortals, the Twelve Golden Immortals, who were usually in positions of high status, they were merely rogue cultivators before the Human Heavenly Court! Illegitimate immortals!
True Man Puxian saw this...
He, with his dignified Taiyi Golden Immortal cultivation and innate divine body, had to go to the Human Heavenly Court and beg for a Longevity Token that would permit him to live on!
This Longevity Token was issued by the Human Heavenly Court, a special permit for True Man Puxian to live on. Without this token, the Human Emperor would, through the Heavenly Network system, bring down a lifespan tribulation upon True Man Puxian!
A Saint-level lightning tribulation descended, who could escape it? Not even an quasi-saint!
With a Longevity Token issued by the Human Race, non-human cultivators could achieve longevity!
Without a Longevity Token issued by the Human Race, non-human cultivators, regardless of their Golden Immortal Dao fruit, Taiyi Dao fruit, or even Grand Unity Dao fruit, who could achieve eternal life without longevity-inducing substances... no matter how much Primordial Law offered eternal life or advantages, they were all considered illegitimate immortals!
They would all be killed on the spot! The lifespan tribulation, the Saint's tribulation, would descend and obliterate them into dust!
In the Human Heavenly Court, any human at the third level of the Celestial Platform, a Profound Immortal, would make the Twelve Golden Immortals of the Chan Sect kneel and bow, willing to do any demeaning act, just to obtain a Longevity Token! To extend their lifespan within the limits set by the Human Race!
A single Longevity Token could extend the lifespan of rogue cultivators, rogue immortals, and deities by ten thousand years!
When it expired, it was gone! They would have to beg the Human Race again to extend the lifespan of the Chan Sect immortals and deities!
As for the Heavenly Court cultivation household registration, that was even more brutal Human Law!
True Man Puxian saw...
In that future timeline, the era of the Human Dao Paradise...
All the spiritual energy of the Primordial World, by law, belonged to the Human Race!
For non-humans... in the Primordial World, whether they were innate deities or acquired beings, whether they belonged to the Demon Court's myriad races or were not of the demon race, like the Phoenix Clan, the Qilin Clan, and other smaller races, rogue cultivators, etc...
Without the permission of the Human Heavenly Court, they could not even use the spiritual energy of heaven and earth to cultivate!
Because all the spiritual energy of heaven and earth was the private property of the Human Race!
When beings in the Primordial World absorbed the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, cultivated their magic power, and broke through realms, they were infringing upon the property rights of the Human Heavenly Court! Infringing upon the private property of the Human Race!
The Heavenly Network... was all-encompassing!
As long as the central Heavenly Network of the Human Heavenly Court detected a being in the Primordial World who, without the permission of the Human Race, without a Heavenly Court cultivation household registration issued by the Human Race, dared to violate Human Law and secretly absorb the spiritual energy of heaven and earth to cultivate...
This magic power would become a locator! The strong cultivators of the Human Race would immediately descend a lightning tribulation and obliterate them into dust!
In that era of the Human Dao Paradise...
For cultivators who were not of the Human Race, if they wanted to absorb the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, cultivate, and embark on the path to immortality, the first prerequisite was to obtain a Heavenly Court cultivation household registration issued by the Human Heavenly Court!
Without a Heavenly Court cultivation household registration, they had no right to absorb the spiritual energy of heaven and earth to cultivate!
This directly cut off the cultivation qualifications of rogue cultivators!
However, obtaining a Heavenly Court cultivation household registration and the right to absorb the spiritual energy of heaven and earth was far from the end!
Even if they cultivated to become Golden Immortals, Taiyi Golden Immortals, or Grand Unity Golden Immortals, achieving eternal life, they still had to obtain a Longevity Token from the Human Heavenly Court to achieve longevity!
The Primordial Law was indeed eternal life, and Golden Immortals and above were not immortal by relying on longevity-inducing substances, and that was also true!
But eternal life did not mean they could not be killed!
Even Saints were only pseudo-immortal and indestructible, not truly immortal and indestructible...
The Human Race, by forcibly killing, by forcibly descending tribulations, by imposing their will upon heaven...
Set the ultimate lifespan for immortals and deities!
Even immortal and deity beings who were eternally alive, like those who had lost the qualification for longevity, had to permanently kneel at the feet of the Human Heavenly Court!
Kneel at the feet of the Human Race!
Only then could they obtain their own Longevity Token, inject more human-mandated lifespan into it, and extend their lives!
"Illegitimate longevity... Longevity Token... You Humans are shameless! Fang Ming, you are truly shameless! Disgusting! Malicious!"
Master Lingbao, True Man Puxian, True Man Manjushri, True Man Huanglong, and the other Twelve Golden Immortals...
Even White Crane Boy, Yun Zhongzi, and Daoist Burning Lamp, all cried out in unison!
"The era of Human Dao Paradise, the peak of Human Dao, is the era of the end for immortals and Buddhas!"
"Fang Ming, you want to destroy the world! You want only the Human Race to remain in the Primordial World!"
Facing the accusations.
Fang Ming merely sneered, "The peak of Human Dao, the retreat of Heavenly Dao! The retreat of Earthly Dao! Only our Human Race is supreme... sweeping away all opposing forces, the end of immortals and Buddhas... what is wrong with that?"
"Die!"
A trace of lightning fire descended!
Daoist Manjushri, dead!
Daoist Manjushri, after the Investiture of the Gods, during the Journey to the West era, defected to the Western Sect, becoming one of the Four Great Bodhisattvas, Manjushri Bodhisattva...
Becoming a quasi-saint, a great Bodhisattva whose power surpassed that of many Buddhas...
He died!
Perished!
So easily died in the Witch-Demon Era!
True Man Puxian, dead!
True Man Puxian, another Chan Sect immortal who defected to the Western Sect after the Investiture of the Gods calamity, a great Bodhisattva...
Still at the quasi-saint realm, a great Bodhisattva who surpassed many Buddhas...
Now at the Taiyi Golden Immortal cultivation...
He died! Perished!
He died under the lifespan tribulation descended by Fang Ming!
He died in the Witch-Demon Era!
True Man Huanglong, perished!
Among the Twelve Golden Immortals, he was of the Demon Race, and also the disciple whom Primordial Heavenly Venerate looked down upon the most...
He was also the "Three-No True Man" with no spiritual treasures and no cultivation!
In the current Witch-Demon Era, when other Twelve Golden Immortals were at least Taiyi Golden Immortals...
Only True Man Huanglong, despite his innate divine body, remained at the peak of the Golden Immortal realm, with a Golden Immortal Dao fruit, not yet reaching the Taiyi Golden Immortal realm!
But regardless of whether he was valued among the Twelve Golden Immortals or in the Chan Sect, it did not affect Fang Ming descending a lifespan tribulation upon him!
Simply because True Man Huanglong was of the Demon Race!
Simply because the Chan Sect immortals and deities wantonly controlled human faith with their True Seed Method! And harmed hundreds of billions of humans!
These two identities, these two reasons, led to True Man Huanglong's unavoidable death!
Fang Ming would not let him go!
True Man Huanglong – perished!
Perished in the Witch-Demon Era!
Master Lingbao, using a top-grade innate spiritual treasure to self-destruct, resisted a trace of lightning fire descended by Fang Ming.
He fled in panic to the immortal fields, before the many humans who were cultivating...
He, who was once in a high position, his mind completely shattered, fearing Fang Ming's lightning tribulation would continue to descend!
He could use his stored top-grade innate spiritual treasure to resist a trace of lightning fire, but that was his limit!
But the fire element lightning tribulation descended by Fang Ming contained countless lightning fires!
Master Lingbao could resist a trace of lightning fire, but he could not resist the complete fire element lightning tribulation, the countless threads of lightning fire!
Master Lingbao, in his panic, facing death, had completely lost his reason!
He actually knelt before the humans who were cultivating and begged:
"Save me! Save me!"
"Our Daoist sect, we have fed you for so many years for free, allowing you to cultivate in our Chan Sect's immortal fields, allowing you to live forever, allowing you to extend your lifespan through endless cultivation, living up to six hundred thousand years!"