The void left behind by the collapse of the Lava Divine Kingdom had become a boiling cauldron of chaos.
Emerald vines, imbued with the resilient Life Law, had wrapped tightly around a Divinity Fragment burning with Brutality Divinity, trying to drag it back to the Forest Goddess's Divine Kingdom.
Elsewhere, chains of pure Holy Light were purifying a charred expanse tainted by the Divine Authority of Tyranny, intent on turning it into a territory of light.
An eerie blue Death Aura seeped into the shattered mountains through every crack, greedily drawing out the lingering screams and despair within.
Storms, lightning, and the powers of several other High Gods tore at the corpse of the Divine Kingdom, fighting over every scrap of its valuable remains.
They watched and attacked one another, throwing the laws of this void into disarray and its energy into a frenzy.
Just as the frenzy of division reached its peak, every sound and every clash of energy stopped without warning.
A figure appeared at the center of the battlefield.
He simply stood there. The moment the raging currents of law approached him, a deeper, more primal power smoothed them away into nothingness.
A silence more complete than death fell over the region.
Qin Chuan.
The vine dragging the Divinity Fragment for the Forest Goddess went rigid.
Her will, spread throughout the Life Pantheon, contracted sharply and condensed into a thought brimming with shock and fury.
"Qin Chuan!"
"You still dare show your face here!"
Deep underground, the soul flame through which the Lich God watched the scene flickered wildly.
The Death Aura he had sent out withdrew at once, no longer touching any of the Divine Kingdom's remains, as though they were deadly poison.
Within the Radiant Divine Kingdom, the grand chanting also stopped abruptly.
Every god