The burning Spiritual Incense, once placed into the incense burner, transformed into wisps of light smoke that neither the wind could disperse nor force dissipate.
Yu Ziqing, clutching an enhanced version of the filth bucket, wrapped up those terrifying forces of the incense fire, which had turned into halos of light, and with all his strength, turned them into a stream of light and hurled them towards Emperor Dui's nine-story tower.
Yu Ziqing gazed at the nine-story tower, mulling over his thoughts.
"If I still can't sever your path to godhood this time, next time I'll have to bring out the most powerful sacrificial tool and summon the king of the hungry ghosts himself to kneel and kowtow three times and nine times to you, old man."
In the distance, Emperor Dui, seeking to use his immense power to intercept the Alien Power Meteors through direct contact, found that it would consume at least a hundred times, or even hundreds to thousands of times more absolute power than usual.
If they were ordinary meteors, he could destroy them with one finger, or even capture them forcibly before they had fallen.
But he naturally knew the source of these infernal things.
If the solution were so simple, the Meteor Disaster wouldn't have persisted for so long without resolution.
Now, he could only watch helplessly as those ten streams of light approached the nine-story tower.
The force wrapped around them was no longer light smoke but had become a dim glow; with the substance so condensed, none of the Earth Deities dared touch it, nor could anyone stop it.
Any divine power would instantly disperse upon contact with that ultimate force of incense fire.
Ten enhanced filth buckets, carrying the light of incense fire that Yu Ziqing was willing to kowtow three times and nine times to, along with the Big Ghost to worship, collided directly with the defenses of the nine-story tower.
As the light of incense fire collided with the light of divine power, a massive surge of filth roared out; the two forces combined and entwined, where mere restrained divine light could not possibly hold up.
The divine light shattered, forcibly corroded into numerous large holes, as the enormous filth and light of incense fire made direct contact with the nine-story tower.
Those jade-like, jewel-like surfaces of the tower immediately began to lose their luster, as the jade and gems seemed as if they had become petrified, turning into the most ordinary grey stone.
The divine light contaminated with filth, the light of incense fire penetrated the tower like a conscious being, unwavering in its resolve to infiltrate the interior until its goal was achieved.
The power within was almost completely defenseless against that light of incense fire.
For it was the most wonderful blessing, the most devout vision, which was no different from the incense offered by the most loyal and devout subjects.
The strength of the Dadui Divine Dynasty could not stop it.
The divine powers of the Earth Deities could not stop it, either.
Emperor Dui, to stop those three Alien Power Meteors, if they were allowed to reach their ultimate speed and concentration, coming together in threes, he might not be able to catch them.
Even if he could catch them at that time, the city of Dingmao within the Divine Country would surely be destroyed.
With its foundation ruined, it would revert in an instant to its original state.
But if he went to stop those three Alien Power Meteors, he would not have the strength to block the items Yu Ziqing threw out afterward.
To stop the filth buckets and the light of incense fire, he could only exert all his might, overcoming ten times with just one force, with no other way.
Now, as the glory atop the nine-story tower began to dim, patches of grey and black mottling appeared, and Emperor Dui was powerless.
He could only exert all his might, using the fastest speed to first intercept those three progressively stronger Alien Power Meteors.
As the second Alien Power Meteor was slowly intercepted, the third and fourth nearly arrived at the same time.
Emperor Dui's power was pushed to the extreme, overcoming ten times with just one force, using pure immense power to forcefully resist the Alien Power.
Yu Ziqing, watching from far away, was secretly astounded; damn, even if the Alien Power's restraint and disruption of divine power was not as strong against Qi Refining cultivators, this was not something an ordinary Ninth Tier could forcibly stop without letting the Alien Power Meteor explode and shatter.
Yu Ziqing waved his hand to the Big Ghost.
Just as he was about to leave, he glanced at the City God of Dingmao City from afar, gritted his teeth, gave the Big Ghost a look, and shouted,
The Big Ghost, understanding the hint, immediately scattered a great amount of power to envelop the vicinity, wrapped up the force, and flew off into the distance.
Meanwhile, Yu Ziqing, sneakily taking advantage of the chaos, skirting along the city wall, approached the City God, bowed his head, bent his waist and in an instant, transformed into a lingering shadow, aimed directly at the City God's back.
The filth bucket cleared the way, the long sword pierced through the opponent's divine light protection, and directly stabbed into the City God's back.
In an instant, the sword transformed into a series of afterimages. The long sword, imbued with the power of the Soul Destruction Blade, chopped the City God to pieces on the spot.
On the sword wing, the skull of a hungry ghost, its mouth agape, laughing wildly, took a deep breath and the City God's limbs were turned into a pile of flesh and limbs from countless individuals.
The City God's Divine Soul was forcibly swallowed by the sculpture of the hungry ghost head on the sword.
After a successful strike, Yu Ziqing immediately made a distant escape.
Passing by an abandoned temple he had been watching for quite a while, Yu Ziqing flicked his wrist and dug out the temple along with its foundation, taking everything with him.
He had clearly seen that when the Incense-eating People below were panicking and fleeing in all directions, not one came near this place, proving that the abandoned temple must still be useful.
It was just the thing to replenish supplies.
"Let's hurry, if we don't leave now, once Emperor Dui frees his hands, he'd definitely beat both of us to death, alive; now that the poison is set, there's no need to worry about it."
Now that the poison was set, if it couldn't kill someone outright, then they'd have to wait for the poison to slowly take effect.