Above the Clear Vault Cloud Sea, the Court Stewards immediately received Daoist Liu's petition for aid. Daoist Yusu nodded and said, "This Warden Liu knows his limits well enough."
The Court Stewards had been observing the battle all along and knew every change in the field. Naturally, they had noticed what Daoist Liu had noticed—and understood it more deeply.
They discovered that this divine man was not adapting to Daoist Liu's power, but to the methods of cultivators.
Yet this adaptation was exceedingly crude and passive, achieved through repeated destruction and rebirth.
In truth, those figures that kept shattering were not phantoms at all, but his very self. Each time one broke apart, a new body emerged from the ruin.
Strictly speaking, the divine man had not been fighting Daoist Liu just now. He had been using the latter's power to force himself to adapt to more variations.
Chen Tingzhi said, "This foreign god must be taken down quickly. The longer we delay, the more troublesome he will become, and the more familiar he will grow with us. Which Court Steward is willing to act?"
Zhang Yu said, "This falls within the Guardian of Rectitude's duties. Let Yu apprehend this man."
All the Court Stewards voiced their approval.
Zhang Yu himself remained where he stood, but an incarnate body of divine qi stepped onto the Cloud-Ganoderma Jade Platform and drifted into the void, arriving in the airspace where Daoist Liu and the foreign god were in an instant.
Daoist Liu immediately noticed his arrival. Turning to look, he saw Zhang Yu and felt his heart ease. He made a respectful salute. "Greetings, Court Steward Zhang."
Zhang Yu nodded in return. With a sweep of his sleeve, the airspace was instantly parted open, revealing the star-filled void beyond. He said, "Warden