Beneath the star-studded night sky, those three crystalline streams of radiance remained dazzlingly bright.
The light they released and the auras they projected shook every True God and supreme alien expert.
What exactly had happened?
Doubts rose unbidden in everyone's hearts.
Each crystalline stream of radiance represented a strand of Purgatory's mysterious providence, something that could only swiftly manifest after a True God had fallen.
But in the world below, where could so many True Gods have died?
Dong Tianze? Wu Yuan?
King Li's expression changed drastically. He suspected that Wu Yuan, who was in Xuanyou Continent, and Dong Tianze, who had vanished into the void beyond the East Lands, had already been killed by experts arranged by Luo Hongyan.
Otherwise, he could not explain why three strands of providence had reappeared.
"There's another one!"
Li Zhaotian shrieked.
A fourth strand of providence, one that True Gods like King Li, Pei Yishan, Dong Shangqing, and Su Wanrou found impossible to track or perceive, sped straight toward the Ghost Mist adjoining the Holy Spirit Continent.
Even Li Zhaotian, who shared a profound connection with the Heavenly Ban, was left at a loss.
Whenever a True God fell, providence would reappear. Like iron drawn by a powerful lodestone, it would all return to the Heavenly Ban that had given rise to it.
This was an inherent Great Dao law of heaven and earth, one that was almost incapable of going wrong.
During this process, even a peerless genius at the peak of the Immortal Realm would find it difficult to draw in the providence returning to the Heavenly Ban and use it to become a new True God.
Providence had to return to the Heavenly Ban, where the traces left behind by the previous True God would be erased, before it could