Just as he turned around, another furious roar came from behind him.
"Thief, where do you think you're running?!"
"Fifth, shut up!"
The First Great Kaioshin grabbed the Fifth Great Kaioshin, who had raised his huge sword and was about to slash at Uchiha Hiko.
"Big Brother, why are you helping him?"
"Nonsense, we got the wrong person."
"Nani?!"
The Fifth and Sixth Great Kaioshin were utterly dumbfounded.
Uchiha Hiko turned to look at the two idiots, his face twitching.
"Idiots. If this Divine Tree really gets destroyed, you only have yourselves to blame for being useless."
But the moment Uchiha Hiko finished speaking, the entire Divine Tree suddenly shook.
The blood vessels around them instantly burst. The milky-white plasma that erupted did not spray everywhere as usual, but turned into streams that converged and rushed downward.
Countless blood vessels burst, and the flood they formed gradually became a vortex. Its sheer vastness left everyone shocked.
Before it, people were like tiny fish in the sea.
Even Uchiha Hiko could feel the overwhelming pressure.
At the same time, the surrounding tree trunk began to crack apart!
The sky instantly darkened. Light and darkness mingled together, as though the universe itself were about to split apart.
Uchiha Hiko knew this was not some natural phenomenon. The world inside the Divine Tree had been destroyed, allowing the starlight of the outer universe to shine in.
"Not good! A diversion!"
The First Great Kaioshin suddenly roared and tried to rush toward the bottom of the flood, only to be blocked by an invisible force.
Likewise, Uchiha Hiko felt an invisible force slowly pushing him upward, farther and farther away, until he left the Divine Tree's world and stood amid the stars.
Looking down, he could only see the Divine Tree being sucked into