Then-Let's Nurture It a Little Longer. A Startling Upheaval in the Heavenly Court, the Eight Departments Mobilize at Once!!!
Meanwhile, inside the Seven-Treasure Exquisite Pagoda.
Lu Chen focused all his attention on controlling the pagoda, racing desperately toward the Southern Heavenly Gate.
"Lu Chen, faster! Faster!"
Lan'er pointed at the Profound Light Mirror and urged him nonstop.
The Profound Light Mirror had two sides.
One showed the outline of the Heavenly Gate drawing ever closer.
The other was more like a "rearview mirror," showing the Pagoda-Bearing Heavenly King constantly closing in, occasionally letting out strange cries.
"Good heavens, I'm already sprinting at full speed!"
Lu Chen did not know whether to laugh or cry.
Who could have imagined that one day, he would be "driving" in the Heavenly Court—and driving the Pagoda-Bearing Heavenly King's Seven-Treasure Exquisite Pagoda, no less?
Before his words had even faded—
Rumble!
A deafening roar came from behind.
The several hundred remaining fiendish demons were lunging after them with fangs bared and claws brandished.
Yet strangely, no matter what divine abilities they used or what devil arts they unleashed, it all ended up backfiring on themselves.
Several demons had already died miserably beneath their own claws, while others had been accidentally killed by their companions amid the chaos. Their corpses lay piled haphazardly in midair.
Dozens more had been ravaged by backlash from their misfortune. Their severed limbs regenerated, only to grow back in utterly absurd forms.
For instance, an ox head sprouted a donkey tail; eagle talons joined onto deer hooves; a snake tail molted into a stone pillar...
They looked like a living tableau of bloodlines gone wildly awry.
"Are you lot done making trouble yet?"
Lu Chen turned and scoffed. "You can't hurt me inside this pagoda anyway, so why waste your strength?"
The casually spoken sentence cut deeper than blades and swords!
The demons flew into impotent fury, their roars shaking