Provoking the enemy and their leader was only a tactic; Tianming didn't care if he could take it or not. All he wanted was for the eighty thousand remaining gods to focus their attention on him, rather than the continent. He had no other choice. To the enemy, the people of the continent were his weakness. It was a disaster he couldn't hope to contain.

If they weren't trying to massacre his folk, he would be willing to surrender and follow them back, but they weren’t even giving him the choice. Though many already knew his intentions, they couldn't really accept it out of their bone-deep pride.

"Sovereign Xi ordered you to bring me back for her to deal with herself. She didn't mention anything about my lifebound beasts at all, yet that bastard Fengyue wanted to kill my lifebound beasts, only to be slaughtered by me."

As Tianming spoke, his beasts appeared on the top of the cauldron, glaring fiercely at everyone else.

"Now, all my lifebound...