*BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
BOOM!*
With every step the eighty 1,000-foot Butler-Line Golden Statues took across the blood-obsidian flagstones, the entire Galactic Ancestral Hall Plaza shook as if an earthquake of magnitude twelve had struck the capital star!
Powered by eighty thousand years of stolen incense energy and controlled directly by Patriarch Gu Tianba and the two Rank 9 Early Grand Elders (Gu Mo and Gu Sha). The eighty towering golden giants locked their shields together in front of the bronze gates of the Forbidden Ancestral Tomb. Leveled their eighty 500-foot [Rank-9 Soul-Executing Golden Spears] straight at Gu Changsheng and his family!
“Hahaha! Try taking one step past my eighty Golden Ancestral Guardians, Gu Changsheng!”
Patriarch Gu Tianba laughed maniacally from the tribunal dais, blood dripping from his chin.
“Each of these eighty golden statues was cast from a million tons of Immortal Gold mixed with Star-Iron and soaked in eighty thousand years of galactic faith! Even if you and your wife are at Rank 9 Early, fighting through eighty quasi-Rank-9 golden colossi at once will exhaust every drop of your spiritual qi. And you’ll never set a single foot inside that back shed!”
Down on the plaza, Gu Changsheng stepped off the landing ramp of the [Galactic Flying Courtyard] with the woven bamboo picnic basket still resting calmly in the crook of his left arm. Inside which a large porcelain bowl of freshly pulled braised beef noodles, two golden fried eggs, pickled garlic cloves, and a warmed jug of Grandpa…
