The Future Buddha Child and the Xingtian Divine Son fled.
In an instant, they vanished into the distance, displaying escape arts of exquisite skill.
At that same moment, golden light blazed in every direction. Figure after figure appeared—divine soldiers in golden armor, packed so densely that they numbered at least a billion. Their auras weighed heavily on the air.
The Xingtian Dao Court's Gouchen Upper Palace Star Lord, Big Dipper Five-Qi Water Virtue Star Lord, and Plague-Heaven Star Lord!
Each of the three Star Lords had brought a billion divine troops to lie in ambush nearby, waiting to capture the outsider who disrupted the sacrifice to heaven.
They had not expected to hook their fish.
But it was no fish. It was a colossal crocodile from the primordial wastes!
The young man in azure stood quietly in the sky, his hands clasped behind his back.
An invisible, terrifying pressure spread in all directions. It was like facing a wild beast at the top of the food chain. Even gods at the peak of the Heavenly Human realm trembled against their will, their souls icy and frozen.
"God-defiler!"
"Death is your due!"
The Gouchen Upper Palace Star Lord roared.
He commanded a billion Dao Court divine troops, gathering boundless incense power and pouring it into a jade ruyi. He drew on the authority over arms in the starry sky as well, forming countless divine swords, spears, halberds, and axes that shot toward the young man in azure. An endless aura of slaughter blotted out the sun and sky.
The Gouchen Upper Palace commanded more than half the authority over arms in the Divine-Buddha Great Thousand World!
The billion divine troops under his command were the Dao Court's elite, painstakingly forged through countless battles. They had fought many times on the battlefields