"The level of Divine Power powering this catastrophe is simply unheard of! Your Divine Majesty, what is going on here?! Has my Taiyang clan offended the Heavens?" Led by their supreme elder, the Taiyang's retired elders attempted to stop the flood from going unhinged. Alas, though at first they succeeded in halting the destruction, the rate at which their Immortal Qi shrank made the situation clear: resistance was futile.
Eventually, the retired elders would run out of gas, enabling the flood to ransack the Central Domain. Divines trampled by a "natural" phenomenon, how could their prestige recover from that blow?
Only if Taiyang Yuan revealed his true cultivation base could he put an end to this scourge. But even then, Xinzi would only have to raise the pressure, and even Taiyang Yuan would find himself struggling. Caving to the enemy's demands was the only way out.
