The Heaven-Supporting Earth-Trampling Golden Great Buddha stood before them, emanating an unbelievable aura. The pressure it gave off was no less than that of the Three Great Abyssal Blue Celestial Venerables, existences close to the ultimate among Weak Tenth-Orders.
That was because he had devoured and assimilated far too many ordinary Dao Attainers—more than three thousand of them.
And most of those Dao Attainers had brought along their own Extraordinary Civilization Worlds, containing countless gods, Heavenly Emperors, and mortal beings.
Behind every Dao Attainer stood hundreds of billions of living beings. It was equivalent to infecting more than three thousand Extraordinary Great Worlds at once. How terrifying was that? "A Buddha?"
Shi Ren Die calmly looked at the Three Pillar Gods. "We're about to break through. We can't be bothered wasting any more time. We'll soon reach the Tenth-Order. Are you here to die?"
He had always tacitly allowed the other side's devouring, and outsiders had no idea what he was thinking.
Only Shi Ren Die knew that once he truly fell, the Fallen Civilization would be left leaderless. At least this gave them somewhere to go, someone willing to take them in.
"It is time for us to retreat."
The Three Pillar Gods looked calm as they secretly transmitted to Di Qi, "Just as you wished, your intervention hastened their eruption. They are about to break through. We cannot stop their advance to the Tenth-Order Ultimate. What comes next will be a chaotic battle among Tenth-Order Ultimates, confronting those dimensional beings descending from on high. That is no longer something your or my cultivation can interfere with."
The Three Pillar Gods were exceptionally rational.
The reason the three of them had not acted all this time was not merely because they had been infecting living beings and had no