In the depths of Chaos, countless ferocious Chaos beasts converged upon the Great Desolation World from every direction at varying speeds, like waves driven by the same tide. Wherever those massive Giant Beasts passed, the Great Thousand Worlds and Universe Worlds along their path silently collapsed like crushed sandcastles, turning into fragments of laws that merged into the torrent of Chaos. Yet within the Great Desolation World, another trial born from the world's Origin quietly began at the same time.
Southern Continent, Undying Volcano.
That volcano, which had steadily spewed the power of Fire of Separation at a constant rhythm for countless years, let out a deep roar the instant the fluctuations from the Great Desolation World's ascension reached its core, like a furnace fed far too much fuel. After that roar, the magma surging within the crater rose at an incomparably fiercer rate, like a compressed spring that, after gathering enough force, broke through its original limits with irresistible momentum. The instant the magma burst from the crater, it transformed into a pillar of fire soaring into the sky. Its edges cast intertwined scarlet and dark-gold radiance across the skies of the Southern Continent, while the entire continent's law structure trembled faintly beneath the pillar's impact.
The Phoenix Clan members living near Undying Volcano sensed the change immediately. Primordial Phoenix appeared at the volcano's edge, her gaze resting on the ever-rising pillar of fire as she assessed the density and flow rate of the Fire of Separation within it. Her voice was neither loud nor soft, yet it reached every Phoenix Clan cultivator patrolling nearby with perfect clarity. "Undying Volcano's eruption has exceeded its normal range. This is a chain reaction caused by changes in ley line pressure due to the Great Desolation World's ascension. The Phoenix Clan alone