The golden figure's sudden appearance drew everyone's attention inside the temple. Remembering the golden figure foretold by the Prophecy Crown, they all attacked.
The melee Practitioners gathered their strength and charged, while the Spellcasters retreated, casting Abjuration spells on themselves before turning to offensive magic.
Saier Cavendish, the golden figure's target, raised a hand to adjust the Prophecy Crown on his head. A beam of white light shot from it and swept across the temple.
Then Saier Cavendish turned and plunged into the Vortex.
The other side of the Vortex was the Astral Plane, one of the least hospitable Planes for gods. A god who entered in his true form would be cut off from his believers, while an avatar would lose its channel for receiving Divine Power from its original body.
Besides, the Lord of Dawn had fallen in the Astral Plane. Once there, Saier could contact his ancestor and draw on his Divine Power to fight the enemy.
Just as Saier Cavendish was about to enter the Vortex, Jiang Hao took out a branch and hurled it at him.
The next instant, the branch pierced Saier Cavendish's chest and burst into strange radiance.
Threads of white light descended from the top of the crown, warding off Gungnir's damage.
Saier Cavendish looked at the golden figure before him, grabbed the Prophecy Crown from his head, and threw it into the Vortex.
Without the Prophecy Crown's protection, Saier Cavendish's body began to disintegrate inch by inch.
"I can die, but the Prophecy Crown cannot be lost."
Boom!
What remained of Saier Cavendish's body exploded. His golden divine blood turned pitch-black in midair and became the phantom of a high-ranking devil, which lunged at Jiang Hao with claws bared.
He had sacrificed his divine blood to a high-ranking devil in the