My version of Heavenly Dao is too old, so it's full of bugs.

Chapter 179 The Heavenly Emperor's Fear

Sometimes things in this world are just so ridiculous.

Yesterday, cultivators from the Three Realms and Five Continents were still excited about Li Wei's crackdown on illegal cultivation transactions, which led to the confessions of over a hundred divine sons. They exclaimed that the Heavenly Court finally had hope.
As a result, today the Jade Emperor personally told everyone what a version is, and directly banned independent cultivation!
The cultivators of the Three Realms and Five Continents were as if they had been doused with a bucket of cold water, and they all fell into a deathly silence, followed by anger!
Looking at the new version of their Heavenly Dao cultivation support panel, they finally understood why such a terrifying ascension tribulation had occurred when True Monarch Zhaoli ascended!
—Even the laws of nature want to stop these bastards from updating the game!

If it weren't for the Heavenly Emperor Shanghaotian presenting the Heavenly Seal, Zhaoli Zhenjun—oh no! He should now be called Zhaoli Hulian Xianjun—would have been struck dead by lightning long ago!

Some people laughed in exasperation: "Hahaha! Cultivation without spiritual energy? I must have misheard you!"

"You heard right!! This damned Heavenly Emperor really treats us like NPCs in a game. If we don't spend money, the only way to gain experience is to kill demons. Where are we going to find so many demons to kill?"

"Perhaps we are the demonic path in his eyes? Hehehe!"

"Bullshit! In short, we absolutely do not agree with the content of the Heavenly Dao version 7.19 update!!"

Cultivation is already complicated enough, but now even meditation is forbidden, which is tantamount to cutting off everyone's path to "effort." What kind of genius came up with this update?!
Everyone read the version update announcement over and over again, and all they could gleaned from it were two words—"cannibalism"!

The matter was so outrageous that many people could not accept it.

"We cannot abandon cultivation in order to crack down on black cultivation. Cultivation is a fundamental right of cultivators!"

"That's right! Cultivation is a fundamental right of cultivators. We cannot sit idly by and watch the Heavenly Court take away our fundamental rights. Everyone, please come with me to the Heavenly Court's Immortal Abode to march and demonstrate. We must make the Heavenly Emperor change his mind!"

As a result, countless cultivators gathered in front of the immortal mansions in various places and began the largest demonstration in history.

"Everyone, shout with me! Delete the content of the 7.19 Heavenly Dao version update, improve cultivators' cultivation efficiency, and increase basic cultivator benefits!"

"The content of the 7.19 Heavenly Dao version update has been abolished to improve cultivators' cultivation efficiency and increase their basic benefits!"

"The content of the 7.19 Heavenly Dao version update has been abolished to improve cultivators' cultivation efficiency and increase their basic benefits!"

Protests broke out in other places as well, and Xinhai City was no exception.

The demonstrators who had come to protest for Li Wei hadn't all left yet, so they simply changed their banners on the spot, saving money on materials.

Seeing the large scale of the parade, Huang Xiang quickly sent Li Wei back to the Lei tribe to organize manpower to maintain stability.

After Li Wei returned to the Thunder Department, he immediately heard many Thunder Officials cursing as soon as he entered:
"Damn it, all these bastards know is how to hold parades. Do they think our celestial officials don't want to hold parades too?"

That's right.

After the 7.19 update of the Heavenly Dao version, even the divine officials of the Thunder Department wanted to go on strike and participate in the demonstration!
After all, most of the divine officials in the Immortal Abode are just high-level workers at the Foundation Establishment stage, and this version update has also harmed their interests!
Unfortunately, the cultivators of the Immortal Abode have taken an oath and signed a contract when they join, and are also bound by the Heavenly Laws, so even if they want to participate in a parade, they cannot, and must be forced to stand on the opposite side of the parade.

But they didn't want to actually stop the march, nor could they, and dared not.

Li Wei had finally obtained the crystallization of willpower through deceitful and misleading claims, and he didn't want to attract attention and undermine his own faith. So he used the excuse of needing to discuss things with Zhongzhou Pharmaceutical Group to slip away again.

Anyway, there are other inspectors and ministers in Leibu, so why should he step forward?

As it turned out, no one stepped forward.

It has to be said that the higher-ups of the Thunder Department had a tacit understanding; it was as if everyone had suddenly gone into seclusion.

As a result, most of the divine officials in the celestial palaces chose to shirk their duties and evade their responsibilities through some cunning means, allowing the procession to continue to expand.

"Brother, you go ahead and do your thing, we'll stand guard. Let's keep to ourselves. We won't interfere with each other, even if you storm into the Immortal Mansion Building, just please don't accidentally hurt any innocent people!"

The scenes of the march and demonstration thus became harmonious.

The cultivators ransacked and made a ruckus, while the thunder officials watched the show; only the immortal mansions and those families with divine bloodlines were injured.

The high-ranking officials of the Celestial Palace and the families of divine blood, who truly represented the interests of the Heavenly Court, were furious upon seeing this.

However, their anger was not directed at the ordinary people participating in the parade, nor at the low-level officials who outwardly complied but inwardly defied the rules.

It is the current Heavenly Emperor!

"They're insane!! They're all fucking insane!! Doesn't His Majesty know that doing this is undermining the very foundation of the Heavenly Court?"

"Heh! Maybe he just wants to see the order collapse and the world descend into chaos!"

"Damn it! How could we have let someone like that sit in the Lingxiao Palace!"

The monks' marches harmed future order and stability, but the asset plunge caused by the version update truly broke the hearts of these divine blood families.

Less than half an hour after the version update, the stock market in the human world crashed and was forced to shut down. The prices of various cultivation materials collapsed completely, and the assets of all the divine blood families shrank dramatically.

It is important to know that cultivation materials have always been the most important resource, so any powerful family with divine bloodlines will definitely make large-scale investments.

However, with the integration of the cultivation transfer payment system into the Heavenly Court's Ministry of Finance system and the fact that meditation cultivation no longer increases the cultivation limit, their previous investments have been completely wasted.

"The Heavenly Emperor has made a brilliant move to undermine our foundation! This has severely damaged the power of our old divine bloodline families! But the Heavenly Emperor has the new cultivation resource exchange system in his hands, and his power will expand rapidly."

"With this shift in power, the balance of power in the Heavenly Court will be broken! He will then gain more power!"

"Hiss?! Could it be that He made such a crazy gamble in order to break free from the constraints of our divine bloodline family?"

The Divine Bloodline Clan has always considered themselves the center of heaven and earth, the protagonists on the stage of the Three Realms, so it is not surprising that they have such thoughts.

But in fact,

Was the Heavenly Emperor's purpose really just to suppress the divine bloodline?
Li Wei felt that things weren't that simple. This update was just too sudden!
From the perspective of the Supreme Emperor, there were many options available; a more moderate and gradual approach could have been used to achieve change. But right now, all of this seemed far too far too much.
After a moment of silence, Li Wei suddenly thought of a precise adjective.

Too urgent!

That's right!

You're just too impatient!
Reforming the ancient cultivation system, suppressing the cultivation transfer payment system of the dark web, cracking down on the power of the Divine Blood Clan, and waging war against the Saints are all major events that require long-term planning and various compromises and balances. They can never be accomplished overnight.

If Li Wei could understand this principle, then the Supreme Emperor of Heaven could not possibly be unaware of it.

But He chose the most drastic approach, condensing everything into a single version update, attempting to force the Three Realms to operate according to His vision by forcibly launching a new version.

This approach is far too simplistic, crude, and hasty!
Li Wei felt as if something was chasing after the Jade Emperor.

So the question arises: as the nominal ruler of the Heavenly Court, surrounded and protected by countless gods, what could possibly threaten Shanghao and force him to take such a risk?

There is probably only one answer.
—A cataclysmic calamity for heaven and earth!

Thinking of this,

Li Wei suddenly understood why the Supreme Emperor was so eager to seek change.

He is afraid of a great catastrophe!
Despite the seemingly supreme position of the Heavenly Emperor, he is actually the one most crucial to face the calamity whenever a great catastrophe strikes.

As far as Li Wei knew, there was a curse in this world that the Heavenly Emperor was destined to die when he faced a calamity.

Of the six Heavenly Emperors in the first six versions, four died in the great calamity, and the remaining two, even if they were lucky enough to survive the calamity, would soon perish.

As it turns out, the various gods, as well as some divine bloodline families, have existed for even longer than the Heavenly Emperor.

So much so that many people jokingly say that the Heavenly Emperors of the Three Realms are ever-changing, but the aristocratic families are the only ones who will endure forever.

That is why people have such reverence for the descendants of God's blood!
"And if I remember correctly."

"From the era of Heavenly Dao 1.0 to the present, apart from the current Heavenly Emperor, no Heavenly Emperor has ever encountered a great calamity in the early stages of his reign!"

"When other Heavenly Emperors encounter a great calamity, it is often at the end of their reign. They have already completely taken control of the Heavenly Court and suppressed all the saints, ushering in the most prosperous period of their respective versions."

For example, the fourth Heavenly Emperor.

Back then, He was even able to create various preferential policies for cultivators from humble backgrounds despite the opposition of the Divine Blood Clan, seizing a large amount of benefits from them. Even though those Divine Blood Clan hated him intensely, they didn't dare to modify the entry rules for the Dragon Transformation Secret Realm that He left behind until after His death.

From this point,
This demonstrates that the fourth Heavenly Emperor possessed immense authority over the gods of the Heavenly Dao 4.0 era.

Even so, the fourth Heavenly Emperor could not withstand the great calamity of heaven and earth!

The current Supreme Emperor Haotian not only failed to completely control the Heavenly Court, but also failed to suppress the Great Sages who were causing trouble outside. He also had to face a major loophole in the cultivation transfer payment system that could shake the foundation of cultivation.
Such internal and external troubles.

If the great calamity of heaven and earth truly arrives, He will likely die without a burial place.

So this is the real reason why He took drastic measures and issued this brutal version update, right?
If a mortal is capable of anything for his own life, how much more so would the Heavenly Emperor, who sits high in the heavens and should be enjoying the offerings of the three realms?

So it's not surprising that He does anything!
Nothing and no one can change His determination to save Him!

Whether they are mortal cultivators, celestial officials, or members of divine blood families, anyone who stands against Him is endangering His life. In that case, His Majesty the Heavenly Emperor, who is already on the verge of madness, will surely devour them with boundless rage.

"Right now, we can only see if the gods can stop the Jade Emperor. If that fails, a Great Sage could kill him."

Just as Li Wei was thinking this,
Above the pitch-black night sky, countless stars suddenly descended, and the gods who had long been absent from the mortal world finally returned.

"It's the gods! They've finally returned! Everyone, please join me in praying to the gods, so that they may hear our wishes and abolish the 7.19 version of the Heavenly Way!"

At this moment, the cultivators of the five continents and three realms made the same decision in tacit agreement. The overwhelming resentment within them soared into the sky, quickly attracting the attention of the gods. Then, they were stunned by their "new home"!

What the heck is this?!
What's going on!

We only went out and fought a few Great Sages, how come the whole version has been updated and the whole world is different when we came back?!

It must be said that the timing of Zhaoli Internet Immortal Lord's ascension was so perfect, just before the return of the gods.

If He had been even a step later
It's impossible to update the Heavenly Dao 7.19 version so simply!

Now everything is settled, and even the gods can only watch helplessly!
Strangely, the gods didn't seem particularly angry. After their initial shock, they fell into an eerie silence.

The silence of the gods was deafening.

Even though Li Wei was nine heavens away, he could sense their indifference.

Then he couldn't help but twitch his eye.

"Would the gods allow the Heavenly Emperor to act recklessly?"

[Heh heh, indulgence? Although Shanghao went mad this time, he did something the gods had always wanted to do but dared not, so even if they were furious, they wouldn't object!]

This is the voice of the dark web!
With the gods back, Li Wei's hidden strongest powerhouse has finally returned!

(End of this chapter)