Come here at once!
In this world, the Divine Path flourished greatly. Even among the few True Persons in the Spirit Praying Dao whose cultivation had reached the Nascent Soul realm, those wishing to see a deity had to "pray" or "request" an audience. To say "summon," however, was an expression of profound disrespect.
Having swallowed the spiritual-energy vortex, old Daoist Jiang Lin swept away his previous decline. His eyes gleamed with vitality, his beard and hair flying wildly.
His voice spread out, seeming to contain supreme majesty. Heaven and earth responded to it, and Divine Lord Tongli could not help recalling the time he had once sought an audience with a certain True Lord.
He was merely a cultivator—why did he possess such bearing?
Divine Lord Tongli did not understand, yet he could neither move nor speak. He could only watch helplessly as this unfolded.
The wisp of "God-Commanding" spiritual power that old Daoist Jiang Lin had sent out earlier had cleverly severed the connection between him and the authority of his divine office.
In other words, he was now no different from a mortal.
But how could a mortal possibly resist the spiritual power of a Golden Core cultivator?
Buzz—
A thread of golden light came rushing in from afar.
It descended into the Daoist temple, landing before old Daoist Jiang Lin and transforming into a deity whose divine might surpassed even Divine Lord Tongli's. The deity knelt prostrate on the ground.
[Deity: Tongwei (Wicked Delusion)]
[One of the gods of the Law Department, charged with vanquishing demons and evil, protecting the territory, and keeping the people safe. Yet in order to amass incense offerings, he joined forces with the gods of the Plague Department and used shares of spiritual energy as stakes to collude with demons, harming