Heavenly Court

Chapter 1052 is titled “Listed on the Board, Heavenly Court’s Pursuit”, which puts the protagonist on a wanted list and gives the Heavenly Court’s Pursuit arc its name. ^{ch. 1052} Seventeen chapters later a title consists of nothing but the Court’s own name and an exclamation mark. ^{ch. 1069} Chapter 1438 is titled “Heavenly Court Shocks the Five Regions”. ^{ch. 1438}

Star Constellation Immortal Venerable is the lord of the second generation Heavenly Court. ^{ch. 467} She is also called the second generation Immortal King of Heavenly Court. ^{ch. 490 ch. 984}

Even after Star Constellation Immortal Venerable’s death, she plotted against three Demon Venerables and protected Heavenly Court from danger. ^{ch. 724}

Heavenly Court has never given up on restoring fate Gu, and as the practice of becoming an immortal zombie to escape fate’s judgment grew common, a branch of immortal zombies appeared even inside Central Continent. ^{ch. 780}

Heavenly Court is an organization in Central Continent, holding control over that region while having less power and fewer forces in the other four. ^{ch. 935}

Recovered thoughts left behind by an immortal zombie who calls himself Green record that the merchant who deceived him in treasure yellow heaven was a pawn of Heavenly Court. ^{ch. 937}

Joining Heavenly Court took deep attainment in one’s path, great battle strength and rank eight cultivation, and one more important criterion beyond those, their values. What Heavenly Court was, Star Constellation Immortal Venerable had described three million years earlier: following the will of heaven, and upholding justice for heaven. ^{ch. 956}

When Heaven Overseeing Tower’s own attack backlashes and damages the tower, the Heavenly Court immortals conclude that the tower itself has a problem and Heaven Overseeing Tower Lord declares there are traitors in Heavenly Court. Suspicion falls on Bi Chen Tian and Lian Jiu Sheng, the two who had helped him repair the tower after Sword Immortal Bo Qing’s sword qi cut it, and the other immortals encircle them. Under suspicion himself, Bi Chen Tian defends himself with Heavenly Court’s countless entry trials and its three million years in which he says no traitor ever appeared, and calls the accusation a Shadow Sect scheme to sow dissension. Lian Jiu Sheng answers that a trial set three million years ago is already too outdated to keep an infiltrator out. That answer exposes him as Shadow Sect’s undercover agent, and Lian Jiu Sheng, who had been inside Heavenly Court for a thousand years without anyone suspecting him, immediately suicides by destroying his own immortal aperture, unleashing winds of assimilation that Heaven Overseeing Tower Lord and the other immortals spend great effort to quell. ^{ch. 1005}

Most of Heavenly Court’s rank eight Gu Immortals sleep through normal times, hibernation being one of the world’s best methods of slowing time. ^{ch. 1007}

At the battle of Yi Tian Mountain, Heaven Overseeing Tower breaks apart, Heavenly Court fails, and Heaven Overseeing Tower Lord is sacrificed. ^{ch. 1020} Chapter 1069 states that Heavenly Court Gu Immortals have equal status among the rank eights and discuss matters together unless an Immortal Venerable is leading them, and that Fairy Zi Wei is tasked to lead after Heaven Overseeing Tower Lord’s death. ^{ch. 1069}

Heavenly Court and the ten great ancient sects send a powerful group to Northern Plains, fail to save Ma Hong Yun and suffer a crushing defeat: of the three rank eight Gu Immortals, Wei Ling Yang, Myriad Tidal Dragon and Bi Chen Tian, two die and one goes missing. ^{ch. 1334}

Pursuit and conflict with the protagonist are already underway from chapter 1052. ^{ch. 1052} Later titles in this stretch also describe intervention and correspondence. Chapter 1359 is titled “Heavenly Court’s Interference”. ^{ch. 1359} Chapter 1381 is titled “Heavenly Court’s Letter”. ^{ch. 1381} Two hundred chapters later it issues a call to surrender. ^{ch. 1580} Chapter 1936 sets three of its elites against the protagonist at once. ^{ch. 1936}

Duke Long tells Purple Mountain True Monarch that his Heavenly Court was guided by Star Constellation heaven’s will to learn the condition and location of Spectral Soul’s main body. ^{ch. 1372}

The founding is recorded as an inference with named premises, not as a dated event. Chapter 1737 is titled “Heavenly Court’s Foundation”. ^{ch. 1737} Chapter 1738 is titled “Primordial Origin Heavenly Court!”. In that stretch Primordial Origin Immortal Venerable announces that his sect will be named Heavenly Court. ^{ch. 1738} That is strong evidence of the founding link. It is still not a calendar date for when the Court began.

Chapter 1747 is titled “Star Constellation’s Sacrifice”. Under that title, Duke Long recounts that when Star Constellation Immortal Venerable’s lifespan was near its end, she sacrificed herself and assimilated with the Dao so her will could participate in the operations of the Heavenly Dao and keep fate Gu in Heavenly Court’s grasp. ^{ch. 1747}

The Court is also under pressure by this point. Chapter 1707 is titled “Heavenly Court’s Crisis”. ^{ch. 1707} Chapter 1711 names a Heavenly Court battlefield. ^{ch. 1711} Chapter 1715 has the Court awakening. ^{ch. 1715} A little later a chapter is given to its righteousness. ^{ch. 1818} The title names righteousness; the chapter does not by itself prove that the Court is the sole righteous pole of the novel’s central divide.

The last arc of the novel is named for the Court. Inside the Heavenly Court Final War arc, the Court’s own crushing defeat carries a chapter title. ^{ch. 2305} Its resolve also carries a chapter title. ^{ch. 2332}

The published text stops in the middle of that war. Chapter 2333 is titled “Three Venerables Attack Heavenly Court!”. ^{ch. 2333} Chapter 2334, the last chapter there is, breaks off with Fang Yuan and Giant Sun fighting Star Constellation. ^{ch. 2334}

No outcome for that fight, and no fate for the Court, is stated in the published text.