Immortal Official of the South Pole Meets Resistance While Breaking the Formation

A night passed in the blink of an eye.

The next day dawned, morning light breaking over the horizon.

Immortal Official of the South Pole slowly stepped out of the Western Qi camp and faced the Ten Absolute Formation outside the city.

The instant he appeared, the void within the formation rippled violently. Vimalacitra, Brahma Light Heavenly King, and the other eight appeared together, their cold gazes fixed tightly on the white-haired daoist outside the formation.

Vimalacitra spoke coldly, his tone carrying mockery and displeasure. "Rather than cultivating in peace and enjoying your blessings in your immortal abode, True Lord of the South Pole insists on meddling time and again in the slaughter of the Human Realm and interfering with the tribulation. Are you not overstepping your bounds?"

Faced with the accusation, Immortal Official of the South Pole was not angered. Instead, his eyes crinkled with a smile as he retorted lightly, "I was wondering who was here stirring up the mortal world. So it was a pack of alien beasts under the Western Religion."

The moment those words fell, Brahma Light Heavenly King and the other eight darkened in unison, fury surging forth in an instant.

The Eight Legions were nominally affiliated with the Western Religion. Though they appeared prestigious, their status was in truth lowly.

Within the Western Religion, all the bitterest, most exhausting, and most unwanted dirty work fell upon them. They were like the Western Religion's servants and hounds, and Immortal Realm cultivators often mocked them in secret, treating them as the Western Religion's watchdogs.

Ordinarily, they endured in silence and could still deceive themselves. But now that Immortal Official of the South Pole had publicly ripped away that veil and mocked them outright, even Brahma Light Heavenly King, the steadiest among them, could no longer