War Begins

It shot Xu Yunfan one final vicious glare. Ice-blue Divine Power surged around it, carrying the blizzard as it turned into a fleeing streak of light and raced toward the depths of the ice fields.

It fled frantically toward the territory of the upper deity it served, Buseus, God of Gales.

Watching Luokan vanish into the icy storm on the horizon, the cold curve at Xu Yunfan's lips finally bloomed into a profound smile.

He slowly withdrew his Martial Dao Avatar's golden body and returned to Tatus's ordinary appearance.

"Calling for backup? Good. Just what I wanted."

He muttered softly. With a shift of his divine sense, an exceedingly concealed, nearly imperceptible karmic mark attached itself to the divine blood Luokan had spat out like a maggot clinging to bone. As it fled, the mark moved with it, silently connecting to an unknown distance.

This was precisely the marvelous use of the Cave Shadow Eclipse Heaven Talisman.

He could trace causality back to its source and simply wait for the big fish to arrive.

When the time came, Lokman would step forward. Once upper deities started fighting, wouldn't underlings like these mid-level deities have to pitch in?

Wouldn't the Star Spirit Banner gain more Banner Spirits then, along with more Immortal Golden Nature?

Xu Yunfan gently brushed the banner pole concealed in his sleeve and looked toward the direction in which Luokan had disappeared.

He would wait here quietly.

If he left and they failed to find him, wouldn't all his previous efforts be wasted?

Before long, space above the snowstorm-swept ice fields suddenly twisted.

Violent currents tore through the thick leaden clouds. A cyan divine radiance carrying endless wind blades and piercing howls descended with a thunderous crash, its pressure far surpassing that of Luokan, a mid-level deity.

Buseus,