Meanwhile, inside the Seven-Treasure Exquisite Pagoda.
Lu Chen focused completely on controlling the pagoda, racing desperately toward the Southern Heavenly Gate.
"Lu Chen, faster! Go faster!"
Lan'er pointed at the Profound Light Mirror and urged him on without pause.
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 closing in, letting out strange cries from time to time.
"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 at that?
Before his words had even faded—
Rumble!
A deafening roar came from behind.
The several hundred remaining fiendish demons were rushing at them with bared fangs and brandished claws.
Yet strangely, no matter what divine abilities they unleashed or what demonic arts they employed, it all ultimately backfired upon themselves.
Several demons had already died miserably beneath their own claws, while others had been mistakenly slain by their companions amid the chaos. Corpses lay piled haphazardly in midair.
Dozens more had suffered the backlash of ill fortune. Their mutilated limbs regenerated, only to grow back in utterly absurd forms.
For instance, ox heads sprouted donkey tails, eagle talons joined to deer hooves, snake tails molted into stone pillars...
They looked like living examples of bloodlines thrown into complete disarray.
"Are you people done making a scene yet?"
Lu Chen turned around and sneered. "You can't hurt me inside this pagoda anyway, so why waste your strength?"
The words were light as air, yet they stabbed deeper than blades!
The demon horde flew into a helpless rage, their