The moment he sensed the divine artifact barrier shatter, King Jiaye's face darkened.
Only then did he suddenly remember.
The Council had the means to send people around the barrier and infiltrate the Royal City.
That meant they could bring another divine artifact inside, then launch a pincer attack on the barrier from within and without!
From the outside alone, even if two or three divine artifacts struck together, breaking the barrier would still be difficult.
But with an attack from both inside and outside, there was a very high chance of breaking it!
Just like now.
"Damn it, I really am getting old!"
"I actually failed to account for that..."
"Those bastard juniors from the Council are truly irritating!"
King Jiaye frowned, deeply annoyed.
He had expected from the start that things would not go so smoothly.
The Council would certainly do everything in its power to stop them; he simply had not expected them to actually break through the divine artifact barrier.
However.
Though there had been an unexpected development, things were far from falling apart.
The barrier was broken, but he was still here.
As long as he remained, no one could disrupt King Zhenruo's godhood ascension ritual!
Five thousand years ago.
When King Jiaye had slain two Kings of Maha in succession upon the battlefield and stood unrivaled over all, these new-generation demigod elders of the Council had still been drinking milk somewhere.
Now, he merely had to kill them once more. There was nothing to fear.
On the other side.
The instant the divine artifact barrier shattered, Kuramitsuha put away the divine artifact [Yellow Spring Seal] and concealed himself.
On one hand, the backlash from the shattering of the divine artifact barrier was tremendous. Even a demigod divine body had suffered considerable damage.
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