Black Tortoise's ink-blue barrier stood in the Chaos beyond the heavens like an invisible city wall operating at a steady rhythm. With defense as its core and reactive force as its means, it dismantled the Chaos Giant Beasts flooding into the defensive line layer by layer, using their own power against them. Once dispersed, the shattered beast fragments uniformly transformed into pure law fragments, passed through the defensive line, and merged into the Great Desolation World's ascension process. Under the combined effects of multiple law structures, the density of the defensive line had fallen to less than a tenth of what it had initially been. The Giant Beasts still appearing sporadically along the edge of Chaos could no longer pose any real threat to the line. Yet just as the beast tide before the line was about to vanish completely, a deep, rumbling tremor suddenly rose from farther within Chaos, like vibrations from beneath the earth. Its source was not scattered Giant Beasts, but a new herd advancing in a denser formation. They were larger than the previous Giant Beasts, numbering in the hundreds. Clearly, they were the main force awakened from some more ancient beast nest deep within Chaos.
Just as the new beast herd was about to press toward the center of the defensive line in a more concentrated assault, a radiance of interwoven jade-green and silver-white rose from the Great Desolation World's barrier like an ancient mountain emerging from the sea floor. Azure Dragon appeared at the center of that light, long-bodied and majestic, surrounded by a blue-silver halo woven from Yimu Law and Geng Metal Law. His dragon eyes held authority, his gaze profound as though he were surveying the disposition of the entire battlefield. During the sermon, he had used the Dragon Clan's destiny to