Although the Royal Family was at a disadvantage, completely crushing them in a short time would still be very difficult.
Moreover, the Council had also suffered considerable casualties.
Since the battle began, four main-family elders had already fallen.
What was more, the Royal Family had reserves of its own.
The Council had strategic weapons like the [Eye of the High Tower].
The Royal Family's accumulated strength could not possibly be lacking either. Those few [Divine Artifacts] alone had caused the Council no small headache.
And as their disadvantage worsened, [King Jiaye] erupted as well.
He began driving the divine spear [Heavenly Sun Spear] with all his might, disregarding injury for injury. With one thrust, he killed Otsutsuki Lieshi and pierced through his body.
And without the protection of his body and semi-divine artifact, even a demigod's soul was in extreme danger within this forbidden zone of laws.
In almost an instant, Otsutsuki Lieshi's exposed soul was ground to nothing...
Another main-family elder had fallen here!
[Heavenly Sun Spear] continued to streak onward.
Freed from its restraints and fully unleashed, the divine spear had already reached the speed of light.
According to the length-contraction effect, its length in the direction of movement had shrunk to zero. In other words, it had practically become a "thin point of light" with zero thickness.
At that moment, it could catch up to the light reflected ahead of it, while the light behind it could no longer catch up to it.
Unseeable, unpredictable, unknowable, unstoppable.
Such was the might of a divine artifact that transcended time and space!
And that also meant [King Jiaye] could no longer control or retrieve this [Divine Artifact]...
Only after the other demigods reacted
did they abruptly realize that the tower behind [Elder Otsutsuki Lieshi], controlled by [Elder Qiong Shi],