The next instant.
A sudden change erupted. The flame's light swelled severalfold and, with a whoosh, lunged at the Golden-Armored Deity who was about to leave, swift as thunder before one could cover one's ears.
Hidden, the firelight was imperceptible; ablaze, it had the force of a prairie inferno. The Golden-Armored Deity had no time to react. By the time he realized something was wrong, more than half of this avatar, which had descended through Wenren Qihan, had already burned away.
"Hm? Who is it now! Who else is plotting against me? Immortal Lord Duo Ning the Usurper? No, he doesn't have that ability. It's the Devil Lord of the Azure Firmament Dust-Dyed Realm. Damn it..."
The Golden-Armored Deity's eyes widened. He ground his teeth, his fury surging skyward.
This avatar was about to burn to ashes and could no longer return to his true body.
As luck would have it, before coming here, he had deliberately severed his connection to his true body to prevent the Lords of Heaven and Earth from tracing the karma and discovering that he was responsible. As a result, the divine senses of his true body and avatar could no longer communicate.
Simply put, he could not send back what he had learned today!
Without that information, his true body would still see Zhang Yuan as a Celestial Person rogue cultivator with no backing, someone he could kill at will.
And thinking back now, the words he had spoken earlier were clearly wrong as well. Since he knew Zhang Yuan had ties to the Eastern Bian Li Clan, why had he insisted on throwing out a threat before leaving and offending him again?
Anyone with a functioning brain would never have done something so foolish. By now, the truth was clear: the divine sense