Facing the three Heavenly Patrol Officers, Jing Wuzhen glanced below.
Li Qi had been ambushed during his investigation and had now fallen into a state of losing control. Demonic thoughts must have invaded his mind, throwing his inner world into disorder.
This was the Devil Lords' method, and certainly not their only one. It was meant to restrain Jing Wuzhen, Li Qi, and one of the two Buddha Children.
Moreover, for the two Buddha Children to suppress the living beings below, they would inevitably need to employ fourth-rank means. That would directly draw the Heavenly Patrol Officers here, and Jing Wuzhen would have to deal with them. She might not even be able to handle them.
Then, Shariputra was the only one who could act now.
The Devil Lords had truly calculated well.
But there was one problem.
The Heavenly Patrol Officers had already arrived. How were the Devil Lords themselves supposed to make a move? The Heavenly Patrol Officers would not waste words with anyone. They only needed to forbid anything prohibited by the Heavenly Laws from occurring; their personal stance was irrelevant.
Although the Heavenly Patrol Officers had been drawn from various Dao Lineages, they still possessed this most basic integrity.
Or rather... only those who would not act on emotion were selected as Heavenly Patrol Officers.
One had to know that being a Heavenly Patrol Officer came with many benefits.
The greatest of them was that they could directly receive the will of the Heavenly Path of the world.
That was right—the Heavenly Path of the world, not Haotian.
The two were completely different.
If one had to put it this way... Haotian's domain encompassed the entire universe, not merely this world, so the world was actually rarely noticed by Haotian.
Though the world was formidable, it