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"Bzzzz—Bzzzz—Bzzzz—!"
As they watched the Beast King struggle violently, invisible power continuously lashed about within the independent space created by the Guardian Divine Tree sapling, making it tremble again and again. The spatial vortex at the entrance also kept expanding. At last, everyone realized something.
The items left behind by the four gods had indeed only been meant to seal the pure Pseudo-Divine Power itself.
They might have been capable of suppressing Pseudo-Divine Power, but the Pseudo-Divine Power now was not merely acting on its own. It already had a vessel.
For example, it was like an item capable of dispersing spirits and souls. Naturally, such an item possessed that effect, but human bodies inherently had souls. Could that item possibly disperse the spirit and soul from the body of someone who was still alive?...
By the same logic, Pseudo-Divine Power was now like a soul that possessed a body. With a vessel, its effects had clearly weakened by an unknown number of levels.
And that was precisely why Wu Yan had not called for Natsuoto to act and purify the Pseudo-Divine Power when facing the Beast King.
If it had only been the Pseudo-Divine Power itself, then with Natsuoto's omnipotent purification ability, she could have completely purified it in minutes. But Pseudo-Divine Power already had the Beast King as its vessel and was hiding within its body. Even Natsuoto could not make her purification power affect the inside of the Beast King's body.
Of course, that was not the most important reason. The most important reason was that the Beast King's own strength had exceeded everyone's expectations!
Thinking about it, though, that was only natural.
Even Kazami Yuuka, a super powerhouse who had