"Sage of Ten Thousand treasures, your title alone won't be able to save you here," the Sky God said. "You hurting us during wartimes is worthy of the punishment you are receiving. Be glad that we are not calling you a demon spy."
"Do you think I give a damn what you call me?" Ning asked.
The Sky God got a little angry at being spoken back at. "Choose, will you make him a sword or will you become a cripple?" he asked.
Ning turned to look at the sneering face of Fire Grim, who would be happy with either outcome. "I'm not doing anything that will make this bastard happy," he said.
"Fine then, cripple it is," the Sky God said and brought out a staff made out of intertwining green and silver, that ended at the head to form a big bird with its wings spread wide.
The Sky God slammed the ground as Ning felt something contricting around his Sea of Qi in his naval area.
His eyes narrowed as he looked at the Sky God in front of him. "You can't do this," he said.
Fire Grim started laughing out loud when he heard that. He felt happy listening to Ning's words of despair.
"You had it coming, you demon-loving idiot," the sword god said.
Ning saw some of the gods around him show pity and even some hesitance at letting what had happening to happen.
He realized that they weren't the worst, but they were being led by someone that was.
"You can't do this," Ning repeated to the Sky God.
The Sky God harrumphed. "Your plea won't work now. Unless you speak an oath to make the sword that can help us, you will leave here a cripple," he said.
Ning glared back with clear anger on his face and repeated his words one last time. "You can't do this."
"I should just kill you for forcing me to cripple a prodigy," the Sky God said finishing the job. He destroyed Ning's sea of Qi.
Or so he thought. He used his powers the best he could. The Celestial Qi should have been enough, and yet he couldn't do anything to the young man in front of him.
"I think you misunderstood," Ning said. "When I said you can't do this, I wasn't talking about some unfairness that was happening to me."
Ning pushed against the barrier that stopped him and it broke into a million pieces. He stepped out to the horror of all the gods that were in there.
"I said you can't do this because you have no such ability over me," he said as he stared at the Sky god. "You are too weak."
The Sky God stared back in shock. "Ho-how are you not affected by my techniques?" he said. "Your cultivation base is leagues worse than mine."
"Yes, it is," Ning said. There was no denying that. "But you know what is better than your cultivation base? My body cultivation."
Ning took a strong step and the ground cracked beneath him. The gods shuddered at the single step as they realized that the person they were passing on the judgment was the strongest person in the whole of humanity.
The war would have been easily won had this man decided to side with them, and yet, they had decided to antagonize him.
Fearing for their own life, the gods started leaving one by one without hestiation.
Ning watched the gods vanish away, but he did nothing to stop them. His beef wasn't with them, but with the few that remained.
"Yaah!" the Sword God shouted as he came to attack Ning, bringing with him mysteries of the world that he did not know about.
Fortunately for him, he didn't need to know about them to grow strong. All he needed to was wait and his supremely talented body would grow on its own.
Ning teleported away from the location and arrived right in front of the sword god to grab his sword. The sword god was stunned and wanted to pull back, but Ning had grabbed onto the light sword.
He crushed the sword and suddenly the sword god backed away in pain. The light sword was a creation of his soul, so destroying it hurt his soul to a certain extent.
Having already been hurt quite a bit less than 2 decades ago, the Sword God couldn't afford to be killed while under this much pain.
"Ocean god! Heal me!" he shouted at the man with the braided blue hair. The ocean god was a man of darker skin who hadn't left the establishment yet.
"Get away from him," the ocean god created a massive figure behind him, one of a deity he had in his heart.
The figure behind him was a 6 armed figure with each arm holding a separate weapon. The hand with the trident fell on Ning, while the Ocean god himself ran up to the Sword God that was in pain.
Ning blocked the attack from the trident easily and saw the Ocean god bring out a spherical, crystalline ball and try to heal the wounded spirit of the sword god.
However, before he could do so, Ning appeared next to the Sword God and smashed his head into the ground.
The blood of the sword god glowed into the cracks of the floor as he was without a doubt dead in body. The confused soul of the sword god flew out of his body, which Ning caught immediately.
"Be a better person in your next life," he said as he crushed the soul of the one that was called the Sword God.
Ning then looked at the Ocean god and said, "Leave, this is your last chance."
However, the Ocean god didn't leave. Instead, he stood up to fight against Ning.
So, Ning killed him as well and took away his treasure for himself.
Two gods died that day, but they wouldn't be the last as the remaining gods stood up to fight off Ning as well.
