First Establish Law, Then Shatter All Laws!

Nothing could be hidden from that group of Sovereigns, except that the Source of Destruction still stored within Lowett's body. Its fluctuations were far too obvious. Once exposed in the Sea of the Dead, such chaotic and disaster-level power, left without an owner yet not running out of control—any fool could tell that Lowett was not "dead."

So, the Emperor made his move.

When the Sovereigns used their Law Origins to hammer him and Leviathan apart, preparing to forge them completely together, the Emperor, personally overseeing the second stage of the process as the Lord of the Underworld, helped Lowett seal that Source of Destruction inside a "box." As Lowett's memory, which carried everything he was, reforged his soul beneath Law Power, he retrieved that Source of Destruction from within it.

The Sovereigns present had made only one mistake: as a product of the Underworld, the Seed of Abomination was something the Emperor knew all too well.

To leave Leviathan enough "space" to contain the Law Origins of every Sovereign present, they had tacitly joined forces to blast apart their fixed forms. And to prevent interference while merging those Law Origins, they had likewise joined forces to shatter Lowett's soul.

Yet because that trace of memory had remained, and because of the Emperor's covert manipulation, the result of this process was utterly different.

Did this process seem familiar?

Once again, others had made choices that suited their own interests.

That was right. Emperor Haisan had always been like this.

He was only responsible for the beginning and the end; the process in between was entirely the other party's "free" choice.

Yet those seemingly free choices had, from the very beginning, stepped into his trap.

They had believed that, as the creator of the Seed of Abomination, the Emperor was the