Just as he turned around, another furious roar came from behind him.
"Thief, where do you think you're running?!"
"Fifth, shut up!"
The First Grand Kaioshin grabbed the Fifth Grand Kaioshin, who had drawn his great sword and was about to slash at Uchiha Hikaru.
"Big Brother, why are you helping him?"
"Because we got the wrong person, idiot."
"Nani?!"
The Fifth and Sixth Grand Kaioshins were dumbfounded.
Uchiha Hikaru turned to look at the two fools as well, his face twitching.
"Idiots. If this Divine Tree really gets destroyed, you can only blame yourselves for being useless."
Yet the instant Uchiha Hikaru finished speaking, the entire Divine Tree began to tremble violently.
The surrounding blood vessels burst apart, and the milky-white plasma that erupted did not splatter in all directions as usual. Instead, it turned into streams that converged and rushed downward.
Countless blood vessels exploded, their gathered torrent slowly forming a vortex. Its sheer vastness left everyone stunned.
Before it, people were like little fish in the sea.
Even Uchiha Hikaru could feel the crushing pressure.
At the same time, the surrounding trunks began to crack apart!
The sky instantly darkened. Light and darkness mingled together, as though the universe itself were about to split apart.
Uchiha Hikaru knew this was no natural phenomenon. The world inside the Divine Tree had been destroyed, allowing the starlight of the outer universe to shine in.
"Not good! A diversion!"
The First Grand Kaioshin suddenly roared and tried to rush toward the bottom of the torrent, only to be stopped by an invisible force.
Uchiha Hikaru felt the same invisible force slowly pushing him upward, farther and farther away, until he left the Divine Tree's world and stood amid the stars.
Looking down, he could only see the Divine Tree being