Whatever else might be said, Divine Lord Giant Wood had swept away the Emei Sect, and Deng Yin was still nominally his subordinate.
He continued with his plans for the eighth. On the seventh, he sent an emissary to urge Deng Yin to follow their original arrangements and bring all his followers to gather and encamp on Green Gate Island in the South Sea, serving as the vanguard in the attack on Heaven Beyond Divine Mountain.
Green Gate Island lay in the South Sea. Its towering mountain resembled a gate, and the island stood precisely halfway between the Lesser South Pole and the Central Continent.
The Loose Immortal Zhu Ping had originally lived on Green Gate Island, but she had moved into Heaven Beyond Divine Mountain before the three-year calamity of heaven and earth.
On the eighth, Deng Yin arrived as promised. Red Flower Princess stood to his left and Stone God Princess to his right, followed by his trusted lieutenants, Chishi Divine Monarch and Nine-Li Divine Lord, along with Stone God Princess's confidant, Red Lotus Old Demon.
Besides them, Chan Master Xiaoyue led three hundred thousand Blood Gods out in force, their blood-colored figures staining the space between sky and sea red.
Divine Lord Giant Wood plainly intended to use Deng Yin and his followers as cannon fodder. But Deng Yin had other plans, so he had brought everything he possessed, putting on a show of unwavering loyalty and readiness to spill his blood and lay down his life for Divine Lord Giant Wood.
When the sun stood high and the Chen Hour began, a vast bank of azure clouds drifted in from the north. Divine Lord Giant Wood had arrived with all his followers as well.
Divine Lord Giant Wood believed that Shi Feiyang's earlier attempt to "ascend