The Law Chains at the junction snapped one after another.
The Lord of the Altar let out a shrill scream as Qin Chuan hacked that gray-green mass of God King Origin Essence out of the crack in the Chaos Source Stone.
Qin Chuan released [Temporal Acceleration] and slid back a hundred meters, blades in hand.
He exhaled and glanced at the blade of [Moment of Utmost Darkness].
The Lord of the Altar's Origin Essence was now a cracked sphere of light, its glow so dim it was nearly extinguished.
"You little bastard!" The old man's shriek rang from the sphere, sending rubble jumping all around. "You ruined everything! I'll kill you! I'll kill you!"
His hatred nearly condensed into a tangible black mist around Qin Chuan's Causal Line.
Qin Chuan casually brushed the dust off his coat.
"Shouting that loud because you're afraid I can't hear you?" He raised his left hand. "You don't even have a body anymore. How are you going to kill me?"
The sphere swelled violently with the Lord of the Altar's fury. The old man's twisted face appeared faintly within it.
He was about to draw on the last of his Divine Might and unleash a divine art that would kill them both.
Then something unexpected happened.
The Yanjin Aberration, which had been twitching at the bottom of the crater, moved.
The monster had no brain, but its hunger for High-Dimensional Origin Essence was etched into its very bones.
The Lord of the Altar had forced a fusion earlier, stuffing his God King Origin Essence inside it.
Now Qin Chuan had cut that Origin Essence free, leaving it desperately weak.
To the Aberration, that gray-green sphere might as well have been a freshly baked miracle tonic.
Roar!
The torn, fang-filled maw on its chest opened