The Kindling Fire Curtain and the Peaceful Dwelling Cage resembled a processing plant with divided tasks amid the Chaos beyond the heavens, handling the Chaos beasts pouring into the defensive line through burning and imprisonment respectively. Suiren's fire curtain steadily burned the beasts caught within its range, while Youchao's cage structures separated, compressed, and imprisoned the beasts attempting to bypass them, one by one. The two law-based structures continued operating in their respective zones in complementary rhythms, like a processing machine divided into two sections that handled different kinds of raw material at once. Yet although the ferocious beasts surging from deeper within had slowed, they had not stopped completely. Scattered individuals continued filling the cleared areas, like a river that retained its basic flow despite being repeatedly diverted.
Just as those scattered Chaos beasts were about to seep through the gaps between the fire curtain and the cages from different angles, a glow of interwoven ivory white and dark gray lit up from the direction of the Great Desolation World's barrier, like a pale brocade being unfurled. Ziyi appeared at the center of that light, clad in a plain robe woven from ramie and silk. Her features were gentle, and her gaze held the concentration of someone examining the texture of fabric. She held no weapon. At her fingertips flowed only a law thread at a steady rhythm—an origin structure she had condensed after attaining the Hunyuan Grand Unity Golden Immortal realm through the Garment Way. Rooted in the Human Race's earliest concept of clothing, it had gradually taken on this unique form through continued fusion with the laws of weaving and the Way of concealment.
"The essence of the Garment Way lies not in the material or style of clothing, but in the word 'fit.'" Ziyi's voice rang