[NT: Yes, back to nine stages per realm. I changed it to three because, in my mind, that would improve the story, but in the end, it resulted in a much more inconsistent power system and forced me to rush the narrative much more than I wanted to.
Sorry for any confusion this may cause.]
Shortly after leaving the entrance to the Hidden Moonlight Secret Realm, the elder and the ten inner disciples accompanying him appeared in a strange place.
It was a cave that closed in the shape of a dome, with a huge arena at its center and an opening at the top, through which the midday sunlight streamed in.
Surrounding them were thousands of doors, each connected to an individual spatial pocket.
In the Immortal Heaven, a formation so powerful and capable of holding so many experts from the Astral Body Realm would cost the fortunes of entire empires, but in the Celestial Heaven, it was nothing.
