Ling Qing sensed the gods' malice and showed no mercy whatsoever.
There was no need to set up any sword formation. He simply cast down the Sword Qi of the Four Immortal-Slaying Swords in relentless waves.
Those petitioners vanished like withered grass, and even gods with weak divine power could not withstand it.
Before long, Ling Qing passed through the Ethereal Plane and entered the Outlands.
The Outer Planes consisted of seventeen planes. Sixteen planes—such as Arcadia, Heaven Mountain, the Nine Hells, and the Abyss—formed a ring.
The Outlands, meanwhile, connected all the planes.
Gods, souls, petitioners, and the like who belonged to the absolutely neutral alignment were mostly gathered in this region.
Ling Qing coiled his body around the Infinite Spire at the heart of the Outlands and looked out in every direction.
Like the face of a clock, sixteen gate-towns stood scattered around him, each leading to one of the sixteen planes.
Among them, the Tradegate of Twin Paradises, the Ecstasy Gate of Elysium, and the Animal Town of Myriad Beast Garden, representing neutral good, not only stood clearly in sight but also emanated a force that drew him toward them.
However, that was merely this world's classification of him based on the alignment he had chosen while practicing the Druid profession.
In truth, he had not become a god through the Druid profession, but through his own Way of the Heavenly Immortal and the Way of Spiritual Light.
In his eyes, across the myriad heavens and worlds, every species living within them was a kind of living being.
Gods were no exception, nor were crystal-wall worlds beyond this principle.
Spiritual light was the origin of all living beings. It held no distinction between good and evil, and transcended both order and chaos.
It existed in a state