The crimson-gold curtain of Vermilion Bird Flame blazed through the Outer Chaos like a wall of purification burning at a constant speed, dealing with the colossal chaos beasts pouring into the defensive line layer by layer through ignition, burning, and purification. The fragments of the beasts purified by the flames were fully incorporated into the Great Desolation World's ascension, like a river of nutrients flowing without cease, delivering additional energy at a steady rate to the expanding boundaries of the world. On the other side, Candle Dragon's Time Law domain continued operating at a steady rhythm, wearing away the beasts attempting to penetrate the defensive line from different directions through differences in the flow of time. With multiple laws continuously at work, the density of the defensive line remained relatively stable, while the number of beasts emerging from deeper within had dwindled to less than a fifth of the original count.
Just as the remaining beast tide, still emerging without cease, was about to disperse further and slip through the edges of the defensive line, a radiance of interwoven black and deep blue rose from the direction of the Great Desolation World's barrier, like an ancient mountain range being lifted from the seabed. Black Tortoise appeared at the center of that radiance, his body massive as a mountain, surrounded by an ink-blue halo woven from the Ren Water Law and the Wutu Law. His gaze was steady as an abyss, carrying the concentration of someone examining the structure of the earth. During the preaching, he had already drawn upon the Black Tortoise Clan's luck to make his breakthrough and attain the Dao as a primordial Daluo golden immortal. Afterward, he had continuously adjusted his body's law structure and the cycles of his defensive laws, like a craftsman reinforcing a city