The Lingbao River stretched through the Chaos beyond the heavens like a dark-golden embankment extending at a constant speed, intercepting, dissolving, and transforming the Chaos Giant Beasts pouring into the defensive line layer by layer. Daoist Duobao stood behind the river, steadily maintaining its operation like a core hub turning at an even rate. On the other side, Zhao Gongming's Thirty-Six Heavens Battle Formation operated with the same steady rhythm, diverting the Giant Beasts attempting to break through the flanks into different heavenly worlds and dissolving them one by one. The two formations were like rivers flowing in different directions, forming a defensive line across the same battlefield that operated by different means yet was equally effective.
Yet the ferocious beasts surging from deeper within Chaos showed no sign of dwindling, like a continually stirred body of water that maintained the same overall depth. Although the center of the defensive line was jointly covered by the Lingbao River and the Thirty-Six Heavens Battle Formation, scattered Giant Beasts that seeped through the gaps continued to drain the reserves of the silver-white curtain of laws, like the surface of an embankment being steadily worn away.
Just as the silver-white curtain of laws at the center of the defensive line briefly weakened, a glow of interwoven silver-white and blue-gray light rose from the direction of the Great Desolation World's barrier, like floodgates opening at once. Guang Chengzi appeared within that light, clad in the Eight Trigrams Immortal Robe and holding the Yin-Yang Twin Swords. Along each blade's edge flowed a strand of Heaven-Opening Axe Intent rooted in the inheritance of the Yuqing lineage. He had already completed his attainment of the Hunyuan Grand Unity Golden Immortal realm during the Martial Arts Tournament, yet unlike his fellow Senior Brothers, he had not entered battle