When the Star Lords realized the Demon Clan had not trapped them in formations to kill them, the attacks they had unleashed dissolved on their own just before striking the stars.
Thus, although the Demon Clan had subdued or killed some Star Gods, most were still alive. A few formations trapping Star Gods remained intact, but most had been broken.
And as the Demon Clan members who had set up formations across the Boundless Starry Sky to trap and kill Star Gods revealed themselves,
the Earth Court Experts struck as well. Judging the number and strength of the Demon Experts at each location, they sent forces two or three times as strong across the void.
Some stayed behind instead of crossing the void, gathering the Earth Court Army so they could march out once it had assembled and formed battle formations.
With a clear grasp of the situation, Di Jun felt trapped between two bad choices.
If he chose not to fight the Earth Court, no one of equal strength would be there to stop him, Taiyi, or their Three Corpse Dao Bodies. While the Twelve Ancestral Witches were still setting up the Twelve Heavenly Fiendish Gods Formation to condense the Pangu True Body, they could take the Demon Elites with them, easily shake off the approaching Earth Court Experts, and return to the Thirty-Three Heavens.
But then every Star God the Demon Clan had trapped but not yet subdued or killed would escape. They would surely hate the Demon Clan and regard it as a mortal enemy. Indebted to the Earth Court for saving their lives, they might even join it.
That would be disastrous. Their status and authority could not stop him from setting up the Zhou Tian Star Formation, but they could use that authority to resist