The Throne Area had been utterly destroyed.
Myozun Chiou Buddha hovered above the vast interstellar cloud left by Betelgeuse's explosion. His magnificent golden form radiated crushing pressure, and his thousand hands blazed with white light like the sun.
Behind Huang Ji loomed the Solitary One's immense energy body. High-energy elements stretched for millions of kilometers, like a surging blue ocean beneath Myozun Chiou Buddha's sunlike golden form. The waves could be kneaded and reshaped without harming him in the slightest.
Immortal Transformation Celestial Venerable was closest to Huang Ji, only a dozen or so kilometers below him. The venerable had molded countless surrounding particles and streams of energy into an umbrella-shaped mountain resembling a giant tree of blue metal. Its exterior looked natural and irregular, but it was an interstellar fortress. It greatly amplified the venerable's Unified Force, spreading a Safe Zone that held up half the sky.
Heavenly Police officer Ming Rong was farthest from Huang Ji, stationed at the wormhole hundreds of thousands of kilometers directly ahead. His planet-sized Quantum Body was smooth and seamless, and the scarlet field spilling from it was as thick as lava, like a sea of fire rushing toward them.
Huang Ji stood at the center of a vortex of four forces pressing in from above, below, ahead, and behind. He looked like a lone boat about to capsize in raging waves, yet he was as steady as bedrock.
For one thing, none of the four sides wanted to kill him. They only meant to seize him.
For another, his technology was no longer what it had once been.
A close look would reveal that the violent energy near Huang Ji fell sharply, plunging from high energy levels to low ones.
In truth, Huang Ji himself was largely responsible for the hellish chaos