The Seven Lamps illuminated all of time as Celestial Soldiers beat their drums.
At this moment, the Nine Venerable Ones all sensed something was amiss. 'That Zhang Bairen... he's acting a little too calm, isn't he?'
Lishan Old Mother's heart went cold. 'The Dao Fruit and several Daluo are still watching us,' she thought frantically. 'If he doesn't perform the great rites, if he doesn't kowtow... if they see this as a provocation...'
The Celestial Court would be finished.
And not just the Celestial Court—they would be finished, too!
These Daluo had long since descended into a killing frenzy. Take the Buddhist Sect, for example. Of their original thirty-one Daluo, what with all the deaths and defections, only nine now remained, and that was even after adding the Immortal Mother, the Qilin, and others!
Lishan Old Mother's brow furrowed, and she immediately boomed:
"Jade Emperor, the Buddha Mother gazes upon you! Kowtow at once!"
