At the center of the Chaos Battlefield, dark gold and pale gold law ripples interwove like blades repeatedly tempered, continually spreading through the void. With every inch they advanced, the fine cracks along the edge of the Five Virtues Light Screen deepened.
Luohu stood at the heart of the ripples, his aura like an ancient volcano rekindled, continuously releasing the pressure of a Supreme Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal of the Origin at the Fifth Heaven into every corner of the battlefield.
His gaze swept across the defensive line behind the Five-Colored Light Screen. The law domains operating there visibly warped beneath his stare, like branches bent beneath a heavy weight.
Although the Heavenly Dao Origin Space was nearly depleted, its final remnant of consciousness still faintly pulsed within Luohu's law ripples, like an ember on the verge of extinguishing that had been cast into dry kindling.
Sensing that faint resonance from the depths of heaven and earth, Luohu's smile deepened slightly, as though he had confirmed that some conspiracy was rapidly taking shape around him.
Within the defensive line behind the Five Virtues Light Screen, a figure woven from crimson and black was rapidly advancing.
Styx streaked through the Chaos Void like an elongated bloody afterimage. Yuantu and Abi, the two killing swords, unfurled at his sides, their blades flowing with deep crimson light forged from the Slaughter Laws.
His gaze settled upon Luohu's ever-advancing law ripples. Without pausing, he swung both killing swords forward, two intersecting bloody arcs cutting into the edge of the ripples.
Luohu's gaze rested on Styx for an instant. The instant Styx's twin swords struck, his Demonic Path Law ripples sharply contracted like bowstrings compressed to their limit.
Then, an arc of interwoven dark gold and pale gold, fiercer than any before it, pressed back