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When Pandu's dreadful words thundered, regardless of their respective ranks, fright surged within the Sea Dream Temple's disciples' hearts. They may not fear the Primal Sun Sect, but they did fear Surya! Once a battle broke out, they didn't stand a chance! Deacons and protectors, all looked to Rati, pleading her with their eyes.

However, the Goddess remained silent, with her eyes shut close as she sat on her Temple Lord seat.

"Acting Temple Lord, sacrificing one Rudra for the Sea Dream Temple's survival is undoubtedly a wise move! Please don't hesitate!"

One of the new protectors exclaimed with a low bow. Rati ignored him.

"Acting Temple Lord, at the end of the day, it is your lack of judgment that gave the Primal Sun Sect the opportunity to strike and caused this tragedy. What's so wrong about becoming their branch? With Lord Kama's forgiving heart, he will surely not make things difficult for you!"

"Acting Temple Lord, the situation nears a catastrophe. Please no longer hesitate!"

The new protectors said one after the other. Those were recent recruits with no blood or history tie to the Sea Dream Temple. They joined because they yearned for a better future. None wished to perish before enjoying the fruits of their new position! And as the succession of supplications carried on, Rati shook her head.

On the outside, death-fearing Sea Dream Temple disciples gathered en masse to request Konrad's handover and the Sea Dream Temple's capitulation.

"Acting Temple Lord, we are in the wrong!"

"Acting Temple Lord, please make a fair judgment!"

"Acting Temple Lord…"

And so it went on. Seeing this, Pandu flashed a victorious grin while Kama inwardly sneered. Ultimately, the world belonged to might. Even if Rati wished to protect her new lover, before the Primal Sun Sect, before Surya's might, she could only capitulate. Soon, he would wash this humiliation in that Rudra's blood!

But never did they expect that as the majority of the sect disciples requested his head, Konrad's lips would curl into a wolfish grin.

"See? This is why my Myriad Dreams Valley only tests the heart. The battle has yet to start that they grovel and request surrender. They shiver like frightened children and seek the simplest road to salvation. With that kind of mindset, with that kind of will, what can you build? All wastes!"

Konrad scoffed, targeting not only the Primal Sun Sect's disciples but the rejected contestants who now found delight in the Myriad Dreams Valley's misfortune. Propelled by formless force, his words echoed in the minds of all gathered. But while some felt their cheeks redden, others disagreed.

"A pity that before absolute might, willpower is inconsequential. No matter how hard your bones may be, we shall still make you bend!"

Pandu retorted with a condescending sneer. With a half-step Legendary God cultivation and the backing of his father, there was not a single deity on the scene able to deter him. Meanwhile, Kubera and other neutral deities anticipated the new sect's collapse with bright smiling faces.

Kubera, in particular, welcomed the scene with delight. Having lost both his mother and sister in a matter of days, he now faced the world with a rancid mood, and inwardly wished all could suffer alongside him. That Rudra's tragedy was undoubtedly a treat to his eyes.

"Well said. Before absolute might, willpower is inconsequential. But in what world is your might...absolute?"

Konrad chortled, and stretched out his right hand. Instantly, the mountain gleamed in dazzling white light that blinded all on the scene!

"You've been rejected, but instead of making a graceful departure, and striving for a future comeback, you dare quibble? Death!"

Konrad exclaimed and clenched his fist. From the Celestial Mountain, eight blinding spears emerged, and shot toward the nearly 270 million of rejected contestants! Before they could make a move, the eight spears beheaded them all, destroying them in body and soul, while unleashing rivers of blood at the mountain's bottom.

Each high of one-hundred, the seven spears soared into the sky, hovering above the Myriad Dreams Valley and deterring all sides!

"An eight star...God Formation?"

Kubera realized in fright. At the same level, formations surpassed all the rest. Unlike artifacts, so long as enough resources were provided, formations would always unleash their full might. Moreover, with a skilled Formation Master, the combination of runes, laws, and resources, would ensure the formation could unleash a might leagues above artifacts and cultivators of the same level.

This eight star God Formation surpassed the strength of a Legendary God's all out strike! In the past, Heaven only had four eight-star Formation Gods, all Primogens. Where did such a formation emerge from?

"As disciples, like leeches you yearn to drain the sect to the marrow, but in the face of adversity, you do not hesitate to abandon peers and dignity to surrender to the oppressor! Death!"

Konrad sentenced, and echoing his order, the blinding spears aimed at the disciples beseeching Rati for surrender, and released legions of white rays that skewered them all, burning them to ashes and dust!

Knowing that they were next on the extermination list, Kubera and the other deities rose in outrage!

"Rudra, you're going too far! I'm the Divine Earth Temple's new lord, the ruler of all yakshas across the Divine Earth Domain! Do you dare take my life?!"

Kubera bellowed, but while he took the haughty stance of a monarch, other deities with weaker background chose the proper way out, and ran for their lives! Alas, no way out existed for them.

"What a joke, in this world, the only thing I dare not do is...nothing!

The host suffers insults and as guests, you choose to stand idle. I can forgive that. But you have the nerves to either engineer or yearn for my mishaps? Death!"

The eight spears merged into one and swept the air in a downward cleave, drawing a white half-moon that flew toward the runaway deities, slashing them all in two perfect halves!

But long before their corpses tumbled, the half-moon broke into a radiant arrow rain that threatened to make porcupines out of Kubera, Pandu, and the Ravmalahk elders by his side!

From the Sea Dream Temple's elder hall, Kama rose, ready to use the ring to suppress the attack and fight alongside his nephew! In a meteor of golden flames, he soared into the sky, landing before the arrow rain. Without delay, Pandu followed, standing beside Kama, and the two released the might of the eight-star God Artifacts they'd received from Surya to meet Konrad's assault!

From the white ring, mighty Truth Laws emerged to dispel the arrow rain while from the golden chakram in Pandu's hands, searing golden flames erupted to tackle the spears and ruin the mountain!

All to no avail!

From the blinding spear, Truth Laws that far surpassed that of anything Kama's ring could provide suppressed his move. Turning into a light meteor, the spear streaked across the air to tear Pandu into shreds!

His bits and pieces burned to ashes!

Now, only the dumbstruck Kama remained, and as he stared at Konrad from afar, none of the previous elation remained.

Flabbergasted, he quivered in fright!