"Idiot!"
Outside the Netherworld, Shen Bore's brows merely furrowed before smoothing out again.
He seemed to care little about Rahū's predicament.
Shen Bore's figure kept shifting as he remained locked in a stalemate with the Third-Generation Sage Emperor.
Shen Bore did everything he could to escape, while the Third-Generation Sage Emperor pursued him.
But when Demon God Zangtian swung his fifth axe strike, cracking the Rahū Star further, Shen Bore stopped in the void.
He waved a hand, manifesting an enormous azure wooden shield before him, crude in shape yet radiant with divine power, to withstand the sword light the Third-Generation Sage Emperor slashed toward him.
When sword and shield collided, Shen Bore was blasted thirty thousand zhang through the void, shield and all.
His wooden shield was called the Taiyi Divine Shield. It was the first shield born between heaven and earth, said to have been made from the Creation Divine Tree's first branch.
Twenty million years ago, when heaven and earth had first opened, this object had served as the Heavenly Order Dharma Aspect of the laws of "myriad weapons" and "Shielding Heaven" after the Heaven-Opening Axe shattered.
Yet even this mighty divine shield could not withstand the Third-Generation Sage Emperor's Heaven-Collapsing power.
Shen Bore had no choice but to slide backward, dissipating the Third-Generation Sage Emperor's force.
Still, he remained entirely unscathed, his expression calm and composed.
"Stop. There is no longer any need for us to fight."
The Third-Generation Sage Emperor did indeed stop.
"Giving up so soon, Divine Venerable?"
His figure stood in the dark emptiness, his gaze fathomless. "After spending so much time preparing your fate and Temporal Sequence Secret Rituals, wouldn't it be a pity to abandon them now?"
"Is this your roundabout way of praising that Human Sovereign of yours?"
Shen Bore