The Storm God was resolute, and so was the Goddess of Precepts.
The instant she noticed Kru intervening in the battle, she chose to evade.
She remembered the power of the Earth Calamity vividly. Although she had long since patched up the loopholes and had every Saint conduct a thorough inspection, once bitten by a snake, one feared ropes for ten years.
The horror of the Earth Calamity lay in the fact that it directly pointed toward the forbidden fate of all things returning to mud. Moreover, because the Earth God had begun with life back then, the Earth Calamity also showed signs of being anti-life.
Returning to mud was not the same as reaching the end.
If possible, the Goddess of Precepts truly did not wish to touch this thing in the slightest.
Kru's first target had actually been her. The "judgment" brought by the Earth Calamity still remained upon her, and it would not vanish just because the "original body" of her possibility in this world had died.
The Earth Calamity's taboo of returning to mud was, to a certain extent, a terrifying force of return that transcended causality.
This power was equivalent to fate, yet utterly different from fate.
Under this force, theoretically, everything would ultimately return to mud.
The only difference was a matter of sooner or later.
Previously, when the God of Precepts had been forcibly dragged out of his divine kingdom by the Earth Calamity, he had only managed to remain in the Astral Realm because fate had established the rule that gods could not descend in person. Otherwise, he would truly have plunged headlong into that mire.
Even gods found it difficult to emerge once they entered the mire. They would only slowly turn into mud.
Although the God of Precepts had not