The dark-gold ripple of laws around Luohu continued spreading through the Outer Chaos like a furnace being fed an unending excess of fuel.
Under that continuous infusion, the Concentric Circle Array approached the edges of the Five-Colored Light Screen with an increasingly even rhythm, like a finely regulated, colossal millstone.
A dark-gold sheen flowed steadily across every Chaos Beast with uniform density, making their bodies gradually swell to nearly twice their original size under the relentless tempering.
Like metal hammered over and over, they developed an even dark-gold sheen through that continuous tempering, like metal that had been repeatedly forged.
Under the continuous infusion, the Concentric Circle Array steadily compressed the Five-Colored Light Screen's room to maneuver, like a colossal millstone being pushed deeper and deeper into water.
This caused the fine tracery of law fragments along the screen's edges to continue widening faster than before.
The Pangu True Body and Daoist Taichu adjusted their positions before the ever-expanding dark-gold ripple, like a dike being continually reinforced with fresh pours.
The Pangu True Body's Heaven-Opening Giant Axe continued striking at a steady rhythm as the Concentric Circle Array advanced, but the instant those arcs touched the dark-gold patterns of laws on the array's surface, they were dispersed, weakened, and absorbed layer by layer, unable to pierce its surface effectively.
Daoist Taichu's Pangu Axe Phantom continued striking in the same rhythm, but the arcs lost their original impact after cutting through several layers of the formation.
The Pangu True Body and Daoist Taichu had already retreated a considerable distance during the sustained clash, gradually drawing inward under the relentless pressure like a dike being steadily compressed.
Atop Kunlun Mountain, as the Pangu True Body and Daoist Taichu continued retreating, the Sanqing and the Twelve Ancestral Witches simultaneously lit up with the