The Lingluo Heavenly Domain had been placed under complete lockdown. From this day forth, entry was permitted, but exit was forbidden.
This lockdown was not merely a verbal declaration, nor was it as simple as stationing a few guards at checkpoints.
Once a full lockdown was initiated, the Heavenly Domain Law would activate, enveloping the entire Lingluo Heavenly Domain.
The Heavenly Domain Law was a profound, mysterious, vast, and supremely powerful force. This power originated from the domain's very essence, nurtured over countless eons.
Once activated, the Heavenly Domain Law resembled a spatial barrier, as solid as a fortress and as immovable as a boulder. No matter how formidable one's strength, shaking this spatial barrier was impossible. Those so-called old Mystic Immortals, so-called Upper Immortals, even the so-called Great Dao Star Lords, including those seated on Great Dao Thrones, could not budge the Heavenly Domain Law.
The various Heavenly Domain Elders of the Immortal Court Residence included many Heavenly Domain Law Enforcers, Heavenly Domain Guardians, as well as Arbiters and Judges. These beings were the true wielders of power within the Lingluo Heavenly Domain.
The so-called Heavenly Domain Law Enforcers, as the name implied, enforced the Heavenly Domain Law.
The Heavenly Domain Guardians guarded the Heavenly Domain Law.
The Arbiters and Judges operated under the same principle.
Each had their specific duties, and all possessed, to varying degrees, the authority to wield the Heavenly Domain Law.
Lord Saint Yang, as the Grand Elder of the Immortal Court Residence, was the Administrator of the Lingluo Heavenly Domain Law. All Heavenly Domain Law Enforcers, Guardians, Arbiters, and the like acted under his command.
Typically, a Heavenly Domain would have one Sovereign and one Administrator. The numbers of other positions like Arbiters and Judges varied depending on circumstances.
In other words, within the entire Lingluo Heavenly Domain, aside from Domain Lord Sha Xiang, the Sovereign of the Heavenly Domain Law, Lord Saint Yang held the greatest authority. As the Administrator of the Heavenly Domain Law, he naturally possessed the qualification and the right to activate the spatial barrier of the Lingluo Heavenly Domain.
After the Lingluo Heavenly Domain activated its Heavenly Domain Law to form a spatial barrier and enforce the lockdown, the various Worlds within the domain also entered lockdown one after another.
These Worlds, much like the Lingluo Heavenly Domain itself, activated their World Laws to form spatial barriers. The various Immortal Realms within the Heavenly Domain, though privately owned territories without official Immortal officials stationed, also activated their laws to form spatial barriers following Lord Saint Yang's call.
Ever since the news of You Di's death and resurrection spread, the people of the Lingluo Heavenly Domain had been restless with anxiety. The lack of any movement from either the Nine Heavens Immortal Dao or the Immortal Court Residence governing the Lingluo Heavenly Domain only intensified their panic. With Lord Saint Yang's arrival, first came the full domain lockdown, then the search for You Di's whereabouts, followed by a public proclamation to the domain, declaring the Immortal Court Residence's stance and their determination to eradicate You Di.
This gave everyone a measure of confidence, at least alleviating the fear they had felt before. After all, the Immortal Court Residence was a subordinate institution of the Nine Heavens; in a sense, it could represent the Nine Heavens' attitude. What reassured people most was that Lord Saint Yang was the one taking charge this time. Everyone knew Lord Saint Yang had always harbored deep hatred for demons, monsters, immortals of sin, and their ilk. With him overseeing the Lingluo Heavenly Domain, there was no need for excessive worry.
The Great Desolation was a place of darkness.
The various Worlds shone brilliantly like stars in the night sky.
And after Lord Saint Yang announced the Lingluo Heavenly Domain lockdown,
each World blazed like a fiery red sun, illuminating the originally dark void within the Lingluo Heavenly Domain, turning it into a realm of clear skies and open daylight.
Everyone knew the Great Sun represented the Nine Heavens, and the light represented the Immortal Dao. The appearance of the Great Sun's light signified that the various Worlds had not only activated their World Laws but also the Immortal Dao Principles.
World Law and Immortal Dao Principles were two different types of laws.
Although Immortal Dao Principles were superior to World Law, the outcome depended on the specific circumstances.
For example, within a single World, the World Law was the absolute master. Inside a World, Immortal Dao Principles were not as powerful as the World Law.
However,
the World Law was confined to that single World.
Once one left the World, the so-called World Law ceased to exist.
The Immortal Dao Principles were different.
The Immortal Dao Principles had long since spread across all heavens and myriad worlds. Wherever the light of the Great Sun shone, the Immortal Dao Principles existed.
Of course,
where there was no Great Sun light, the Immortal Dao Principles could not reach.
Had only the various Worlds activated both their World Laws and Immortal Dao Principles?
No.
Just after the various Worlds activated theirs, a solemn, majestic white Great Sun slowly rose into the endless sky above the Lingluo Heavenly Domain.
This Great Sun was vaster, more sacred, and brighter than the suns of all the Worlds. Its rolling Immortal Might enveloped the entire Lingluo Heavenly Domain.
The masses knew this Great Sun represented that the Immortal Court Residence governing the Lingluo Heavenly Domain had also activated the Immortal Dao Principles.
In the Ancient Era, the Three Thousand Great Daos engaged in overt and covert struggles. A single Heavenly Domain was often enveloped by many Daos.
Aside from the Heavenly Dao and the Immortal Dao, there were also the Monster Dao, the Devil Dao, and others.
Because the Dao origins of the Ancient Era had dried up, the status of these Dao Sovereigns was rather ordinary. Only those who mastered the Heavenly Domain Law were true overlords.
However, after the Immortal Dao dominated heaven and earth in the Present-Ancient Era, both the various Heavenly Domains and the various Worlds were monopolized by the Immortal Dao. Other Daos were expelled, including the Heavenly Dao, leaving only the Immortal Dao reigning supreme.
In other Heavenly Domains, there might be divisions between Heavenly Domain factions and Immortal Dao factions, meaning conflicts between those who ruled the Heavenly Domain and those who ruled the Immortal Dao over interests. But this problem did not exist in the Lingluo Heavenly Domain. The reason was simple: Lord Saint Yang had served as an Immortal official Elder in the Lingluo Heavenly Domain for hundreds of thousands of years. His disciples, descendants, students, and former subordinates were spread throughout the court and the common populace.
Whether they were the Immortal Dao Sovereigns or the World Sovereigns of the various Worlds, almost all were his people. Not only was this true for the various Worlds, but even the Heavenly Domain Law Enforcers and Immortal Dao Law Enforcers within the Immortal Court Residence were mostly his men.
Perhaps a small minority were not his people, but for the sake of survival, they dared not disobey Lord Saint Yang's commands.
Moreover,
Lord Saint Yang himself was both the Administrator of the Heavenly Domain Law and the Sovereign of the Lingluo Immortal Dao Principles. One could say his power dominated the court.
As for Domain Lord Sha Xiang, he was merely the Sovereign of the Heavenly Domain Law. Regarding the Immortal Dao Principles, he was nothing.
The reason Lord Saint Yang dared to disregard Domain Lord Sha Xiang, a Heavenly Domain Lord, was not only because his power dominated the court and his followers were spread throughout the domain, but also because he was both the Administrator of the Heavenly Domain Law and the Sovereign of the Immortal Dao, deeply trusted by the Nine Heavens and wielding sole authority. One could say that throughout the entire Lingluo Heavenly Domain, no one held greater power than him.
First, the Lingluo Heavenly Domain entered full lockdown.
Then, the Heavenly Domain Law was activated to form a spatial barrier.
Next, the Immortal Dao Principles manifested as light shining upon all.
Through concrete actions, Lord Saint Yang proclaimed to the Lingluo Heavenly Domain his resolute stance, and through concrete actions, he demonstrated his unwavering determination to eradicate You Di and rid the people of this scourge.