The Taoist Celestial Venerable pondered for a moment. "What do you intend to do?"
"The key to this lies with Lingbao... Of the three of us, only he absorbed Earth's Origin and cannot be corrupted by the Black Goat. Everything depends first on how his battle with Lucifer goes." Primordial Celestial Venerable raised his head slightly and glanced toward the moon.
"Besides that, it would be best to find another reliable ally..."
Space.
A black speck tore through Venus's incomparably dense atmosphere and crashed onto the pale yellow ground. The rolling shockwave shattered the earth for dozens of kilometers around it, visible even from beyond the atmosphere.
Within a deep crack in the surface, Lucifer slowly rose to his feet. Of his six black wings, three had been scorched until they gave off a burnt stench. Beneath them, a pair of writhing Flesh Wings tore through his back and emerged into the air.
"Lingbao...!" Lucifer clenched his teeth as he stared at the Taoist figure slowly descending from the atmosphere, letting out an enraged growl.
"The greatest force in Hell is nothing more than this."
Lingbao Tianzun stood atop the Primordial Chaos Limitless Cave and smiled faintly.
"If you've got the nerve, put away those two 'Supreme' divine artifacts in your hands first!" Seeing the smug smile on that plump Taoist, Lucifer nearly exploded with rage.
In terms of cultivation alone, the two were actually evenly matched. Even if Lingbao Tianzun held a slight edge, Lucifer could still gain the upper hand through the power of those Flesh Wings. Yet Lingbao Tianzun held the Golden Scepter, reputed to be the "largest-scale weapon of destruction," in one hand and the Jade Ruyi, which controlled yin, yang, and the five elements, in the other, and had forcibly pinned him to the