"Th..."
The many Void Return martial artists present were all deeply shaken when they saw this scene. At a single command, these Demon Servants had directly sacrificed themselves without even blinking. Human martial artists could never have done such a thing.
Compared to them, these low-level Demon Servants were like mindless ants. And enemies like that were even more terrifying.
"The Divine Lord he mentioned—is that the ancient deity from the Primordial Era?"
Sun-Eating Arhat's voice actually trembled faintly.
"Master Sun-Eating, what did you say?" Divine Lord Lanyu still had no idea what had happened.
"There are records of this in the Great Vehicle Temple's scriptures. In the Primordial Era, the ancient deities devoured the Heavenly Dao. Back then, the Void Return martial world had used Divine Lords as soldiers and Divine Kings as generals, and only after exhausting nearly everything they had did they win that world-destroying war. Who would have thought these Demon Servants would return now? And we..."
Sun-Eating Arhat did not finish, but Divine Lord Lanyu already knew what he wanted to say.
With Divine Lords as soldiers and Divine Kings as generals—in other words, if they had gone to that great battle in the Primordial Era, they could only have served as foot soldiers?
This...
Divine Lord Lanyu held his breath. How were they supposed to fight this?
"You do know some history. Not bad. The mortals of hundreds of millions of years ago did indeed fight the Divine Lord, but how could mortals possibly slay a god? Before the Divine Lord, it was merely recuperating. To the Divine Lord, you are nothing but a swarm of ants, something it can exterminate with a wave of its hand. Resist, and you die."
"And you may not know this, but the Heavenly Dao in the Void