Watching the God of Law advance to powerful divine power, the gods were startled at first, then quickly came to terms with it.
Though the God of Law had only been a medium divine power, His true strength had always been formidable. There had long been rumors that the reason His divinity could not advance was that He lacked a certain opportunity. Now it seemed those rumors were true. What He had lacked was indeed nothing more than an opportunity.
An opportunity to establish laws aimed at gods, to set rules for the gods.
Now that opportunity had arrived, He immediately advanced to powerful divine power. It was all only natural.
"Ha! Hahahaha!" The God of Fear burst into wild laughter. "No wonder you went to such lengths to stir up this so-called public trial. Humiliating me was a pretense; the real goal was to pave the way for your advancement! Lao Brans, God of Law, you truly deserve to be called an old hand who has lived so long. How cunning! Who said you were some old-fashioned stick-in-the-mud? They were all blind!"
The God of Law remained silent, neither admitting nor denying it, but Sui Xiong sneered.
"Why do you think so little of yourself? Is powerful divine power really such a big deal? Aren't you one yourself? How could a newly advanced powerful divine power compare to an old-established one like you? Not to mention, you lead a whole pack of evil gods and command a divine pantheon—look, even with death staring you in the face today, loyal subordinates have still come to help you. Don't belittle yourself. This public trial was prepared specifically to deal with you. Everything else was merely incidental."
"Deal with me?!" As though he had heard some absurd joke, the God of Fear