Jiang Linglong even brought forth the Primordial Chaos One-Qi Pearl, suppressing and killing three Half-Step Celestial Immortals on the spot.
Countless Divine Race Earth Immortals still tried to resist, gathering the Ten Thousand Gods Formation for a desperate final strike. Yet the three Ice-Soul Immortal Scallops wielded the Ancient Three Wonders Pearls to block them, before the ninth-rank World-Destroying Cannon forcibly blasted the formation apart.
When Jiang Linglong activated the Primordial Xun-Wind Ancient Gourd, countless gods were snuffed into ashes in an instant.
Meanwhile, high above the heavens, the battle between Chen Nianzhi and the Weishui Heavenly God had already reached an incomparably fevered climax.
Chen Nianzhi gripped the Chaos Heavenly Halberd, its towering divine might cleaving open heaven and void. He forcibly split apart half of the Weishui Heavenly God's body, sending him flying through the air while coughing blood.
"Ah, I refuse to accept this!"
Suffering another grievous blow, the Weishui Heavenly God revealed an unwilling expression.
With boundless hatred, he stared fixedly at Chen Nianzhi. "Impossible. I am a mighty Celestial Immortal—how could I be defeated by you?"
"Heh—"
Chen Nianzhi smiled faintly, his gaze cold. "Though you are a Heavenly God, from the instant you entered the tribulation, you became nothing more than a chess piece."
"A chess piece."
At those words, the Weishui Heavenly God's face paled slightly, and he let out several bitter laughs.
"Yes, a chess piece."
He understood in his heart that a chess piece was also a discarded pawn.
Whether it was a great tribulation or a Dao Tribulation, its essence arose from an immortal domain restoring its vitality by setting the great Dao of heaven and earth's cycle into motion.
And among a Dao Tribulation, those figures who swept the calamity across the world were the protagonists of the tribulation.