Now!
A terrifying gleam burst from the eyes of the Four Heavenly Kings. The Purple-Gold Flower Marten-Rat, Primordial Pearl Umbrella, Jade Pipa, and Azure-Edge Sword—four Dharma treasures—were unleashed at once.
Taking the Cypress Four Generals by surprise, the four treasures descended together. Divine light enveloped the four generals, sealing away their divine power.
In the blink of an eye, the four generals were firmly restrained, unable to stir even the slightest bit of magic power.
At the same time, on the other side, with the formation broken, the Military Department's heavenly soldiers faced no further obstruction.
War drums thundered through the heavens as more than ten thousand heavenly soldiers swept down like an overwhelming canopy. In the blink of an eye, all three thousand Celestial Patrol Soldiers had been captured.
The Giant Spirit God withdrew his Dharma form and returned to his eighteen-foot-tall body. Looking down from above at the captured Cypress Four Generals and Celestial Patrol Soldiers, his voice boomed like a great bell as he sternly shouted:
"The Cypress Four Generals mobilized troops without authorization, abandoned their posts, and even dared covet an exotic treasure of the lower realm! Not only did you refuse to repent, you brazenly resisted heavenly soldiers! Your crimes shall be punished together. You are to be escorted back to the Military Department's heavenly prison to await judgment!"
Seeing that defeat had been decided, the other three generals could only surrender with their hands bound.
Only Wither-and-Bloom General had bloodshot eyes. Unwilling to accept this, he fiercely demanded, "May I ask, Fellow Daoist Giant Spirit! You keep claiming there is a treasure in the lower realm, but where exactly is this treasure?
"Why do you slander us without a shred of proof and arrest us at will?
"Are you not afraid that my three