The Heavenly Lotus Realm returned to calm once more.
The Xing Tian Divine Son had come here to offer sacrifices to Heaven and weaken Human Dao Fortune, and then—
—vanished without a trace in an instant.
It was terrifying beyond measure. A perfectly fine Divine Son, along with so many gods from every faction attending him—the Five Qi Water Virtue Star Lord, Gou Chen Shang Gong Star Lord, Star Lord Wen Tian, and three billion divine troops from various divisions—had clearly been perfectly fine just a moment ago. They had been secretly lying in ambush nearby, ready at any moment to await the Divine Son's command. Everything had been normal.
Yet the next moment, a gust of wind blew through, and all that normality turned into an illusory bubble, vanishing completely.
Rustle~
Rustle, rustle, rustle...
The windswept sands of the Heavenly Lotus Realm, unchanged for ten thousand years, blew on. It had been this same wind during King Xiang's era tens of millions of years ago, and it was still this same wind tens of millions of years later. Having weathered countless vicissitudes, it remained unchanged, looking on as seas turned to mulberry fields in the mortal world.
A full five breaths later.
Longer than originally estimated.
Rumble!
Lightning blazed across the sky. Countless bolts thundered, tearing apart heaven and earth, tearing apart this stretch of deep space. Terrifying lightning poured from the shattered void, and a dreadful pressure capable of crushing the crystal walls of a Middle Thousand World descended upon heaven and earth. The lightning shone with incomparable brilliance, blotting out the sun.
Behind the lightning, a boundlessly terrifying Lightning Army crossed mountains and rivers to descend!
"Who?"
"Who dares kill this venerable one's Divine Son?!"
Amid the endless Divine Path Army of lightning, an incomparably towering figure