With the Land Above All brooding in frustration, the atmosphere in the lower Realms was even worse.
The apparent small victory that Kami had secured by injuring the Celestial Tortoise didn't just feel hollow; it stared at him with accusation.
On the other hand, the Lord of Shadows remained calm. His adversary was not Kami, but the ancient God who had once taught him as well.
Although he had already sent Old Gu and Baoshi to convince the Celestial Beasts to join his cause fully, it didn't go as well as one might have imagined.
The Celestial Beasts had lived long enough to understand politics. It was well within their knowledge that their sibling had become a target only because those dead-brained humans had wrongly assumed that they weren't neutral.
Still, the Celestial Tortoise had suffered grievous injuries. Although the most peaceful of the 4 Beasts, the Tortoise now wanted nothing more than revenge. It just so happened that the Lord of Shadows was willing to give him one.
