It was an expected response. Just as Zhou Tian was slowly about to win, those deities who did not want to see Zhou Tian achieve victory could no longer restrain themselves and had to take action.
They did not take any other actions but simply revealed themselves and repelled Zhou Tian, subsequently gathering all of Zhou Tian's hostile forces together.
Based on the past behavior of those deities, they were supposed to eliminate Zhou Tian, the enemy, at this moment. However, because Zhou Tian's previous actions had caused these deities to be rejected by the Main Plane, they had the desire to kill Zhou Tian but eventually did not do so under the various restrictions.
