Three hours later.
Kangaroo Country, in the Southern Hemisphere.
A pair of enormous bronze hands violently tore open the gray sky. With a thunderous rumble, the Bronze Giant City forced its way through the spatial barrier and hovered above Sydney's survivor base.
Its immense shadow instantly blotted out the sunlight, plunging the entire city into endless despair.
Piercing air-raid sirens rang through the sky. Dozens of heavy antiaircraft missiles shot upward, trailing searing flames.
Atop the bronze city walls.
Yu Ji had changed into a suit of fitted, dark-red battle armor. She did not even glance at the missiles.
"How noisy."
High Priest Zhuge Xuan snorted coldly and slammed his stark-white Bone Staff against the ground.
A visible, transparent ripple spread through the air.
The missiles all froze in midair. Their precision electronic components were instantly crushed beneath the pressure of half-step Deity Transformation laws. Dozens of expensive killing machines became useless scrap, dropping straight to the ground and igniting a sea of flames.
Yu Hou sat on the Throne, his gaze sweeping over the crowds fleeing across the ground below and the enormous mutant demon beasts in the distant jungle.
"Impure spiritual energy. Inferior stock," Yu Hou judged.
He raised his right hand and gently swept it down.
"Clear the area."
The city gates burst open with a thunderous boom.
Tens of thousands of bronze-armored Ancient Shu soldiers poured down on savage mutant beasts, like a black torrent of death.
A slaughter, with no uncertainty about the outcome.
Without a peerless powerhouse like Chen Lin standing guard, without a Deity Transformation Spirit Treasure to keep them in check, the Ancient Shu Royal Court was an irresistible true god in Kangaroo Country.
Yu Ji did not act. Neither did Zhuge Xuan.
The army of armored soldiers, led by dozens of