At the Goddess of Kindness's command, the troops under her answered in unison. They all withdrew several hundred meters.
Among the retreating army of over two million, many felt deeply resentful. Yet with the Goddess of Life's order hanging over them, they obediently continued to fall back.
"Of course. I, Su Chen, give my word the weight of nine cauldrons-even my spit lands like a nail!" Su Chen replied solemnly.
The Goddess of Kindness said nothing, merely nodding slightly. In her heart, she had chosen to retreat not only because her kind nature left her ashamed before the previous Dragon God and unable to face the Golden Dragon King and Silver Dragon King before her, but also because she was deeply concerned about the catastrophe the Goddess of Life had mentioned.
In the war a hundred years ago, which the human deities had named the Dragon God War, the human deities had ultimately won and the Dragon God had ultimately fallen. However, the Divine Realm's divine thought had grown extremely weak from the war's depletion.
At that time, a catastrophe had struck the Divine Realm. It had encountered space-time turbulence, something rarely seen even once in a thousand years. In the end, the Silver Dragon King had plunged headfirst into the space-time turbulence, causing it to brush past the Divine Realm.
Yet even though the Divine Realm had escaped disaster, many human deities had still lost their lives.
Only then had the Goddess of Life realized that the catastrophe foretold by the Life Prayer Ritual had not referred to the war between divine beasts and human deities, but to the space-time turbulence.
Now war had broken out in the Divine Realm once more, and the omen of catastrophe in the Life Prayer Ritual was far stronger than before. What, then,