Both sides were feverishly eager for this battle.
The gods needed an absolute victory to show all living things, all the cultivators of the Cultivation World, the might of the gods. By crushing Buddhism and reclaiming its two Mortal Worlds, they would show all beings the terror of the so-called gods!
The Buddhist cultivators sought, on the one hand, to preserve their own foothold against divine encroachment, and on the other, they needed the lands and faith of the east. Even the Incense Mortal World where the gods now resided was something they desperately coveted.
For both sides, this was a war in which they had to win a great victory, and a battle over the destiny of their two traditions of faith!
The victor would not only awe Heaven and Earth with the might of a great victory, but would also inherit everything the other side left behind, leaping to become the strongest power between Heaven and Earth!
For both sides, this was a war they had to win!
Even if they fought to the last person, neither side would admit defeat!
The boundless auspicious clouds drifting between the two realms began gathering from every direction.
An enormous white auspicious cloud spread across the sky, streaks of divine light flashing within it.
The auspicious cloud was so vast that the beings of both worlds could see it.
At the Divine Sovereign's call, the gods within the Mortal World responded one after another, assembling in the sky and waiting to destroy every enemy in their path under his leadership!
Meanwhile, at the Great Spirit Mountain Temple in the west, countless Buddha Kingdoms began stirring, converging on the temple.
Three thousand Buddha Kingdoms, with hundreds upon hundreds of distinct styles, converged on the Great Spirit Mountain Temple at the summons of