The threads of the Garment Way formed a network in the Chaos beyond the heavens, like a loom of laws weaving at a steady pace. Through the successive processes of fitting, tightening, and strangling, it dealt with the Chaos giant beasts pouring into the defensive line. The law patterns at Ziyi's fingertips maintained a steady rhythm, as though adjusting tension, throughout their continuous operation. They converted the strangled giant beast fragments into pure law energy, channeling it respectively into the thread network itself and the Great Desolation World's ascension process. The Hearthfire Curtain and the Peaceful Dwelling Cage continued operating in their respective regions with complementary rhythms. The three distinct law structures of the Human Dao's Three Ancestors stood like three pillars made from different materials, forming an efficient filtering layer before the defensive line, each functioning in its own way. Yet giant beasts surging from deeper within Chaos continued to appear, like a river that, though repeatedly diverted, had yet to run dry, maintaining a steady low flow.
Just as the continuously emerging beast tide was about to seep through the gaps in the Three Ancestors' defensive line in scattered groups, a light interwoven with gray-white and dark blue rose from the direction of the Great Desolation World's barrier, like the pointer of an ancient sundial being moved. Candle Dragon's figure appeared at the center of that radiance, tall and slender, surrounded by a gray halo formed from the Time Law. His expression was calm, his gaze carrying the focus of one observing the flow of an hourglass. During the sermon, his aura had already relied on the Dragon Clan's Destiny to complete his breakthrough into a Hunyuan Grand Unity Golden Immortal. Yet he had not immediately entered the battlefield afterward. Instead, he had continuously adjusted the circulation of