Alex, student of the dark tower master and current acting head of the tower and the supervisor of the city lords of the edge, in other words the governor.
Right now, he was looking for a report of all events that happened after his cheap master snack out when he was away, leaving him all his unresolved work.
Having struck a deal with the upper echelon of the beast realm, even more work was piled up, especially with an increase in the number of people participating in the trial tower.
This has led to the formation of many lists such as the Son of heavens list where only those who've completed the trial in one go are recorded. Yet what was truly surprising was increased interest in the guards of said tower, the so called 'guardians'.
A powerful entirely new species with up to a million members that are rumored to be unkillable.
This was further exaggerated when an immortal king tried to cause trouble and with a single slash the black guardian destroyed his body and soul.
It was then exposed that the black guardian, the leader of the guardians, was a pseudo immortal emperor.
Remember that the immortal king realm had just recently been the peak of the world in the last hundred thousand years, and it was only in these few ten thousand years that the heavenly emperor broke through to the immortal emperor realm that the new realm was defined and recognized by the heavenly dao.
This not only made the heavenly emperor the strongest, but also made the heavenly court the strongest faction in the upper world.
This not only put pressure on their long standing enemy, the celestial Court, but also neutral parties like the beasts and demons.
The tensions have been rising for a while now, since even though others broke through to the immortal emperor realm, the heavenly emperor received karmic luck and protection from the heavenly dao for the next fifty thousand years.
So when he received an invitation by the so-called celestial guard captain and the prime minister of the heavenly court to talk about how to manage the trial tower, it wasn't surprising that Alex gave the order that no celestial or any individual from the heavenly court would step foot in to the trial tower for the next ten years.
This firm stance not only raised the image of the edge but also raised tensions as this reflected the beast realms stance in the matter.
Even though the edge was self governing and had its own laws, it was still under some minimum protection by the beast realms higher ups.
As tensions kept rising, a hundred years after the tower master's disappearance, a strange phenomenon took place.
Golden clouds covered half the upper world, while gray clouds covered the other half of it.
These were simply signs that two different individuals were breaking into the immortal emperor realm, yet these signs were comparable to the likes of the Azure emperor, celestial emperor and heavenly emperor breaking through.