"Haotian, I'll ask you one last time: will you face your tribulation yourself, or must I send you to it?" After sealing off Haotian's paths forward and back with solar true fire, Taiyi addressed him in a booming voice.
Hearing the question, Haotian answered without hesitation, "I am the Great Heavenly Venerable of the Heavenly Court, the Jade Emperor personally appointed by the Dao Ancestor. Taiyi, you..."
Boom! Halfway through, Taiyi already knew Haotian's answer. He swept his sleeve, and in an instant, the enormous fireballs slammed toward Haotian with thunderous roars, their flames illuminating ten thousand miles of sky.
Below, atop the Shang Dynasty's northern city wall, Kong Xuan and the Phoenix Race High God gazed at the scene. Both inwardly marveled at Eastern Emperor Taiyi's mighty divine power. That attack... they probably could not withstand it.
However...
Hum... Golden divine light flickered at the heart of the explosion. Once the flames and dust dispersed, Haotian stood utterly unmoved with the Haotian Pagoda above his head. He had actually taken Taiyi's attack head-on.
In the Netherworld, within Crouching Bear Hall.
Gungun was eating bamboo shoots while watching the commotion outside. Seeing that Taiyi's attack had not even breached Haotian's defenses, it could not help shaking its head.
Solar true fire was indeed an exceptionally powerful flame, but as far as it remembered, that fire had never actually killed any renowned mighty being.
"Oh, so that is the Haotian Pagoda? Its defenses are decent." Seeing Haotian withstand his attack, which had merely been a small test of his blade, Taiyi looked at the Haotian Pagoda above his head and spoke indifferently.
"Taiyi, this is my final warning: stop taking a mile when given an inch. It was the Ancestral Bear and Ao Yue who stripped your Demon Race of their