At these words, every god present froze where they stood.
Thor turned to look at the towering figure behind him, his pupils suddenly contracting.
Amid the shattered divine thrones, Odin stood silently in his white divine robe, his brow tightly furrowed. Within the dark eye socket long concealed by his eyepatch, countless bizarre crimson insects were clumped together, silently writhing over one another. From afar, they resembled a red eyeball.
Thor's mind shook violently. He instinctively took two steps back, his eyes filled with disbelief.
Not only him—Hodur, the Blind God, who had been knocked to the ground by the Taoist Celestial Venerable, and Tyr, the God of War, who had been sent tumbling down the mountain and had only just climbed back to the divine temple—were both frozen in place.
They stared blankly at that familiar figure, feeling an unprecedented sense of unfamiliarity.
"Father..." Thor said dazedly. "What happened to your eye? And what the Celestial Venerable just said..."
"Nothing but lies."
Odin spoke calmly. He closed his eyelid, concealing the constantly writhing crimson right eye, then stepped forward through the air. Boundless divine power surged out in an instant, while the Taoist Celestial Venerable parted his lips and recited an obscure Daoist scripture. The surrounding Spiritual Energy churned violently.
The divine powers of two supreme gods collided within the temple without any flourish. The resulting shockwaves blasted savage cracks across the temple walls, and in mere moments, the entire temple exploded into fragments!
Several Norse Gods swiftly retreated into the air near the divine mountain. The two Mysterious Persons from the Heavenly God Temple, who had silently stood in the corner all along, exchanged a glance before retreating as well, avoiding the battle as they watched from afar.
The dust atop the mountain gradually dispersed. The once-grand hall