Vermilion Bird had not expected things here to be like this either. She had thought she was mainly coming to support that useless Chu Ge, never imagining that White Tiger and Chu Ge were fighting separately, much less that White Tiger could not regain control of its own body.
"You're absolutely pathetic. Did being kept as a cat ruin you?" Having just killed an angel, Vermilion Bird was brimming with confidence.
"Would you believe me if I said that bastard never even kept a cat?" White Tiger said indignantly. "This corpse controller is strong! Try it yourself if you don't believe me!"
"What's so great about him? I just killed an angel, and that was a god too!" Vermilion Bird slipped into White Tiger's Spiritual Platform, and her expression changed the next instant. "Huh..."
This opponent was on an entirely different level from the one she had just defeated.
Even Zhong Yi could guess that Azazel over there was, at most, Michael's subordinate. Though the official scriptures might not classify them that way... In other words, this "Heaven" might be somewhat unusual. But however unusual it was, however many versions there were, Michael was unquestionably the strongest angel in this system.
Claiming she had defeated that last opponent was just boasting. At best, they had been evenly matched, and she had only won with Zhong Yi's help... White Tiger was in even worse shape than she was, so it was perfectly normal that it could not beat the strongest of their opponents.
In any case, with Vermilion Bird and White Tiger fighting Michael together, they finally tipped the scales back, even gaining the upper hand.
Unless Michael could descend fully and contest control directly.
In fact, he had already descended... The elderly white man standing before Chu Ge underground was