Great Tang Seeks to Swallow the Western Niuhe Continent

His words rang out with force, setting every civil and military official's blood ablaze while making them keenly aware of the heavy responsibility on their shoulders.

This was no longer merely a war to defend their homeland. It was a grand undertaking to expand their territory, reshape the order of the mortal world, and challenge the old balance of gods and Buddhas!

Naturally, the shifting tides of the mortal battlefield did not escape Lin Zhu, who had remained hidden high in the sky, quietly observing through the Sky-Covering Talisman.

He had seen the Daoist Huaxia's earth-shaking methods, the unity of Great Tang's soldiers and civilians, Tianzhu's army collapse, and the frustration and wariness of the Buddhas and Arhats hidden deep within Tianzhu's formations. Their auras had fluctuated several times, as though they wished to intervene, yet they had forcibly held themselves back.

Lin Zhu knew that what they feared was not merely the "old monsters" beneath the city walls, but him—the Three Realms Enforcement Prison God, who had yet to show himself yet hung above their heads like the Sword of Damocles!

So long as he remained, those Buddhas and Arhats would not dare Bully the Weak by directly attacking Great Tang's mortal army. Otherwise, they would be giving him the perfect excuse to intervene—or even begin a massacre.

"The overall situation has been decided."

Lin Zhu silently thought to himself. Tianzhu's mortal army was doomed to defeat. If Western Heaven did not wish to tear off all pretenses and provoke a conflict at a higher level, it could only accept this outcome—or... find another way, such as trying once again to force him to reveal himself.

A day swiftly passed amid tense military preparations and scattered minor skirmishes.

Standing above the clouds, Lin Zhu turned his gaze toward Tianzhu's