Judging by the earlier situation, it was not that the Celestial Court could not kill Hong Wei. But even if its many Heavenly Gods took turns attacking him, he certainly would not die before Cold Dew had passed.
Unless the Heavenly Emperor acted personally. Yet if executing a single condemned dragon required the supreme ruler of the Celestial Court to serve as executioner, neither the court's dignity nor its prestige would emerge unscathed.
That was why, the instant Hong Jun's dragon head fell, the Dragon Lord of the East Sea thought the Heavenly Emperor had lost patience and intervened directly.
But when the Dragon Lord looked again at the bloody mark on his palm and sensed faint strands of the people's wish power and karmic force within its throbbing pain, his heart jolted once more.
"Not the Heavenly Emperor!"
The moment that thought arose in the Dragon Lord's mind, a voice that seemed to shake the nine heavens came faintly from afar.
"I am the True Lord Bright Spirit Who Quells Calamity, Manifest Divinity, born in answer to the wish power of all the people beneath heaven."
The voice reached not only the East Sea Dragon Palace, but the lower world as well.
For the divine being Yi Shuyuan had become through the Heavenly God Transformation had borrowed magic from the people, born in answer to the countless prayers of those who yearned for peace and hoped to see the monstrous scourge slain.
At this moment, to the Divine Dao, all calculations of fate and struggles for advantage were false. Answering the people's thoughts and safeguarding the righteous spirit of heaven and earth alone were true. A lord born in answer to this thus bore the title "True."
Thus, luminous spirit meant calamity's bane, and birth itself manifested divinity: the