The last glimmer of the setting sun had faded. Dusk had just descended, and heaven and earth lay vast and hazy.
Seventy-two-colored divine lights gathered and withdrew upon the mountain-like body of the Primordial Great Heavenly King, like an immense bolt of fabric magnificent beyond measure.
Even the lofty altar reached only to the Primordial Great Heavenly King's insteps. Gao Xian, Dao Hong Dao Venerable, and Zhi Zhen atop the platform seemed as tiny as ants by comparison.
Gao Xian recited a ci poem by the Chairman, venting every pent-up weight in his heart. Now his aspirations soared higher than the heavens; looking again at the mountain-like Primordial Great Heavenly King, he only found the thing rather adorable.
Strictly speaking, the statue of the Primordial Great Heavenly King was exquisitely profound, far superior to the Black Tortoise Demon-Subduing Great Heavenly King in Dark Yin Hall.
Even the Daluo Sect's Protective Dharma Array was more profound than that of Nine Extremes Palace.
This was the accumulation of the Daluo Sect over dozens of calamities, not something a single seventh-rank cultivator like Mysterious Underworld could compare to. Eastern Pole Heavenly Lord, who came from the Daluo Sect, was likewise beyond Mysterious Underworld's measure.
Under normal circumstances, he should have lowered his stance and played a hypocritical game with Eastern Pole Heavenly Lord.
Eastern Pole Heavenly Lord was not easy to fool, but he had no real means to deal with Gao Xian either. He had come here most likely to determine exactly how Gao Xian had killed Mysterious Underworld.
Perhaps Eastern Pole Heavenly Lord had even intended to employ both favor and intimidation to subdue him. Or make him swear an oath never to provoke the Heavenly Lords of the Penglai Association again.
At the end of the day, Eastern Pole Heavenly