Outside the Southern Heavenly Gate.
The monkey swung his Golden Cudgel, thrusting left and blocking right.
Before him, seven Star Lords took turns fighting him.
These seven were the eastern seven of the Twenty-Eight Mansions: Jiaomu Jiao, Kangjin Dragon, Ditu He, Fangri Rabbit, Xinyue Fox, Weihuo Tiger, and Jishui Leopard.
The Twenty-Eight Lunar Mansions were a vital fighting force of the Heavenly Court, endowed with extraordinary divine abilities.
Besides the seventeen Mansions already fighting, Orthodox Gods from the other departments kept arriving.
The Thunder Department had laid a thunder formation all around, while Heavenly Soldiers and Generals arrived and cast the Heavenly Net, enclosing the monkey tightly. Yet they still could not capture him.
Though this monkey was only an early Great Unity Golden Immortal, he certainly had a few tricks.
His divine abilities were endlessly varied. Combined with the Golden Cudgel, they unleashed such fighting power that even experts at the middle Great Unity Golden Immortal stage dared not meet him head-on.
Whenever he swept his cudgel out, the Star Lords scattered.
They had already discovered that a knock from this iron cudgel meant death, and a graze meant injury. Meeting it head-on was unwise.
Whenever the Star Lords retreated, Wen Zhong ordered the Heavenly Lords to unleash heavenly lightning. With a whirl of his Golden Cudgel, the monkey smashed it to pieces.
They had fought like this at the Southern Heavenly Gate for two hours.
Wen Zhong was secretly astonished. This Golden Monkey Grand Marshal truly had some ability. No wonder he could call Spirit Vine his brother. An ordinary Great Unity Golden Immortal would have been captured in their first assault.
An hour earlier, he had already sent a dispatch asking the Jade Emperor for reinforcements.
By his reckoning, they should be arriving now.
As he thought