The four deities were already battling against those four battle puppets.
In terms of ferocity in combat, the four deities were evidently slightly superior. These four deities, after all, were golden bodies formed by the Divine Sense of gods, whereas Jiang Chen's development of the puppets had not reached its peak, and he was unable to control them in the strongest battles yet.
The four battle puppets he currently controlled had the combat power only of the early stages of the martial dao, which was at a disadvantage compared to the four deities.
However, Jiang Chen had his own advantages.
This advantage naturally lay in the Nine Palaces Godly Illusion Diagram. With this formation activated, Jiang Chen essentially took control of the void.
Xiahou Zong was complacent, yet clearly unaware of this impending crisis.
Jiang Chen did not warn him but continued his layout, releasing the Magnetic Storm relentlessly. Meanwhile, the Earth Bodhisattva Orb took charge of the ground.
