Guang Chengzi's paired male and female swords were like a bowstring repeatedly drawn taut in the chaos beyond the heavens. Each closing and parting left behind a silvery-white arc across several Great Thousand Worlds amid the beast tide. The chaos giant beasts caught within the sword radiance scattered into fine fragments of laws as though machines dismantled from within by the Heaven-Opening Intent, dissolving into the surrounding void. Under Guang Chengzi's sustained clearing, the density of the beast tide at the center of the defensive line began visibly declining. With the pressure eased, the silvery-white curtain of laws regained its former brilliance, like a bridge relieved of part of its burden and able to support the frontline with greater stability under a lighter load.
Yet the ferocious beasts pouring forth from deeper within the chaos showed no signs of stopping completely. Although the density of the beast tide had already dropped considerably from its initial level under the combined clearing efforts of the heavenly battle formations, the river of Lingbao, and the Heaven-Opening Sword Intent, new giant beasts continued to emerge from the edge of chaos, like a river whose current had slowed but had not yet run dry, maintaining a steady low flow.
At the edge of that constantly emerging beast tide, a crimson and dark-gold radiance rose from the direction of the Great Desolation World's barrier, like a pile of dry grass being set alight. Suiren's figure appeared within that radiance. He wore plain robes woven from animal hides and hemp cloth, his face ancient and unadorned, his gaze calm like sparks that had burned through countless ages. He held no weapon. There was only a flame pulsing steadily in his palm—this was the Origin Flame he had condensed after attaining the Hunyuan Grand Unity Golden Immortal through