Deep within Chaos, the five Chaos Overlords still held their positions.
They had seen the intensity of the battle between the two sides, as well as the rate at which both sides expended their strength.
In their eyes, the Pangu True Body phantom and Di Jun's Sage power were evenly matched. If the fighting continued, both sides would inevitably suffer grievous losses.
Then, the five of them could join forces to annihilate the Primordial World's strongest fighting forces in one stroke, before exploiting its weakness to divide it among themselves.
The beads of their wishful abacus clattered merrily.
What they did not know, however, was that they had long since been exposed.
Di Jun and Taiqing Laozi had already reached a tacit agreement in secret to join forces.
The axe blade of the Pangu True Body phantom and the radiance of the suns of the pure yang law were slowly adjusting their direction.
It was as though an invisible net were slowly drawing shut.
Yet the prey within that net remained utterly unaware.
The battle continued for an unknown length of time.
The light of chaos surrounding the Pangu True Body phantom began to dim at a speed visible to the naked eye, and every swing of its axe carried somewhat less force than the last.
Di Jun's light of the Sage was also gradually receding. The nine suns of the pure yang law had faded from their initial dazzling brilliance to a dull gloom, as though they might go out at any moment.
The auras of both sides grew erratic.
The Law Deities of the Twelve Ancestral Witches and the Three Pure Ones had expended enormous strength throughout the long battle, while Di Jun's magical power gradually approached exhaustion.
Finally, in one last collision, the Pangu True Body phantom