The Great Thousand Dao Child fell from the sky, his noble Dao robe stained with blood, his aura in disarray. It was obvious that he had been injured.
All the experts who witnessed this scene could not help drawing sharp breaths, their faces filled with shock.
The Great Thousand Dao Child had lost?
Then what about Ling Xiao?
Had he already been beaten to death?
Yet no—space split open, and a heaven-shaking figure descended. A golden pillar of light covered in Dao talismans rose from his body, reaching up to the ninth heavens and down to the azure springs and yellow springs, sacred and transcendent.
"Hiss!"
The crowd drew sharp breaths again. From the look of Ling Xiao, not only was he uninjured, but his aura was even stronger than before.
"No! How is this possible? Lord Dao Child is invincible beneath heaven—how could he be defeated?"
"I don't believe it! I don't believe it!"
The bootlicking saintess beside the Great Thousand Dao Child screamed like a madwoman. Her Dao heart had lost its balance, as though she had gone astray in cultivation.
This blow was simply too great for her.
Having followed Lord Dao Child for so many years, she had only ever seen him sweep through all opposition, defeat opponents from every direction, and stand high above all others.
Now, seeing the Great Thousand Dao Child fall from the void, the bootlicking saintess felt as though a deity had tumbled from a lofty divine altar and plunged into an endless abyss, the halo around him dimming all at once.
"Is the Great Thousand Dao Child merely living up to an empty name, or is this guy just too strong?"
The female war goddess of the Kingdom of Gods wore a look of astonishment. For a moment, she could