Bodhi and the others' withdrawal from the central garden had been a wise choice. Such enormous changes required an immediate adjustment to their battle strategy.
Azathoth had died silently in Ling's realm, something even Bodhi Patriarch could never have imagined. It was impossible to estimate just how powerful Yu Ming, this expert from a Higher Plane, truly was. At the same time, Bodhi harbored doubts. If Yu Ming was so powerful, why had he deliberately separated his body and sent parts of himself through the human world and the prison realm, spending such a long time doing so?
"I never expected things to develop into something even worse than my worst expectations... sigh..."
They had initially believed that Guo Chen had formed an alliance with Ling's realm, and with their first victory in the Sunken Ghost Realm, they should have pressed their advantage against Void Death City. Yet now, an unbelievable reversal had occurred, and every apparent advantage had vanished.
"If Zhang Chen and Gu Chen can join our side, perhaps we still have a chance of winning this war... But according to the Dao Sect's judgment, Azathoth has been dead for over four thousand years. Yu Ming, the prison envoy, also appeared in the prison envoys' records around that same period. Clearly, he absorbed all of Azathoth's essential origin and used Azathoth's reincarnation trait to split off part of his consciousness, reincarnate as a human, and embark upon the path of a prison envoy."
"If Yu Ming merges with his main body now, his strength will likely surpass Guo Chen's... But things may not be so simple. Otherwise, Yu Ming could have wiped us all out the moment he arrived here. Perhaps there are still some problems with Yu Ming's main body. But regardless, the situation of this war