A Fair and Square Competition!

Their expressions were composed, even carrying a faint sense of relief, as if to say, "It's finally here."

This reaction only left the Heavenly Court and the various powers attending the ceremony utterly bewildered—

The Heavenly Court was declaring war on the Human Race?

This was a thunderclap enough to shake the Three Realms!

So why were these leaders of the Human Race each as steady as a rock, not even lifting an eyelid?

It was as though they had long kept this storm tucked in their sleeves, merely waiting for it to strike... strange enough to send chills down one's spine.

Suddenly—

A flash of lightning streaked through Haotian's mind!

An absurd thought, almost laughable, slammed fiercely into his sea of consciousness!

Could it be... that all of this had been a trap meticulously laid by Ying Zheng and the others?

Was the purpose to force him to personally utter the words, "The Heavenly Court declares war on the Human Race," before everyone?

His pupils suddenly constricted as his blade-sharp gaze viciously gouged into the calm, unruffled faces across from him.

A chill surged through his heart—

Those words from earlier... had he fallen into their trap again?

"BOOM—CRACK!"

Countless bolts of silver-white divine lightning suddenly exploded above the nine heavens, ripping apart the sky as electric serpents danced wildly!

"Good."

A vast, boundless voice of the Heavenly Dao rang out from the depths of the void, clear and impossible to defy.

The Heaven and Earth Pact was thus sealed.

In an instant, an invisible yet mountain-heavy aura spread out, blanketing the Six Directions and Eight Wastelands.

Haotian's expression changed drastically!

To his shock, he discovered that the Heavenly Emperor Authority within him—the authority that governed the revolutions of the heavens and commanded the Myriad Spirits—had been forcibly cut