Things had become a little awkward.
The Prefecture Lord now truly wanted to strangle Fengdu Great Emperor's group, along with the remaining four High Priests, then get out of this mess as quickly as possible.
The matter of stripping away authority had succeeded before, back in ancient times.
It was only that all the authorities stripped away had belonged to beings other than the Heavenly Emperor and the deities personally invested by the Heavenly Emperor.
After stripping away an authority, forging it into a divine artifact was the simplest and most brutal method, though this only worked on deities below the level of High Priest.
After stripping it away, one could shatter it and merge it into a bloodline, plunging the authority into a long slumber. So long as that bloodline did not die out, there was only one way for the corresponding authority to be reshaped.
Through the passage of endless years and the transmission of bloodline from generation to generation, it would slowly reform within the bloodline. One day, it might awaken in a descendant and condense into a tangible form once more.
If the bloodline died out, however, the authority would return to heaven and earth, and perhaps before long, it would gather again in its corresponding place.
Back in the Ancient Heavenly Court, the vast number of deities who vanished completely had mostly been dealt with through this method.
Their authorities had been sealed within human bloodlines.
Humans had lifespans of barely a hundred years and numbers beyond reckoning. Once an authority was sealed away, it was essentially impossible for anyone to find where it lay. And even if they found it, nine times out of ten they would have no way to completely sever that bloodline.
Thus, the authority would remain sealed within the bloodline