With the help of the powerful gods, the last few Demon Gods were swiftly defeated as well.
But aside from one of them, all the rest had merely been sealed away by the powerful gods. They did not possess Sui Xiong's technique and had no way to destroy Demon Gods completely.
In the end, of the twenty-four Demon Gods, only three escaped destruction.
With those Demon Gods eliminated, the formless thing had already drawn close to the Abyss's exit. It let out a bizarre roar, and merely hearing it shook the minds of more than one god, forcing them to retreat in disarray.
Unlike the somewhat discomposed gods, Sui Xiong remained utterly unmoved as he stepped forward to meet it.
"I'll hold the front," he said. "Be extra careful. Don't let it hit you—though even if it doesn't, it's still dangerous. But if it does hit you, that'll be even worse."
"How much worse?" the Justice God asked.
"Back then, the God of Conspiracy merely came into contact with it at close range, and its power corroded him, costing him his life," Sui Xiong said. "Of course, you are all powerful gods, far stronger than the God of Conspiracy, who was only a weak god. But before something that was already the Lord of Utmost Evil and has furthermore devoured the Lord of Chaos, I don't think powerful gods would fare much better than weak gods."
The gods were alarmed. Naturally, they knew the gap between powerful gods and weak gods, but they understood even more clearly the gap between great gods and powerful gods. Fighting a great god was already dangerous enough in itself. Not to mention that Chaos was not merely "one" great god—it was effectively the fusion of two great gods.
Against such an enemy, no amount