Wutian Demon led his forces from the Western Continent across the boundary of laws separating it from the Northern Continent.
The dark-gold demonic qi advanced steadily from the Western Continent toward the Northern Continent, like a sky-shrouding curtain being unfurled by an invisible hand.
Under the relentless impacts, the Northern Continent's network of laws resembled an ancient bronze mirror struck repeatedly by a heavy hammer. A point of impact first appeared along its edge, and fine cracks spread outward from that point.
At the edge of the Black Tortoise Clan's territory, the defensive barrier formed from the power of ren water remained intact, like a towering mountain battered again and again by cold waves and raging floods.
Wutian Demon's domain of laws continued to expand. Wherever it passed, the northern laws split like ice plowed open by searing heat, cracks spreading outward from each point of contact.
Those cracks kept spreading, but they could never extend beyond the area covered by Black Tortoise Patriarch's barrier.
Wutian Demon lingered at the edge of the Black Tortoise Clan's territory for a long time. Then he turned his demonic body slightly, shifting his gaze from the clan's territory to the other regions of the Northern Continent.
Northern Darkness Land lay in the far north of the Northern Continent. After the Primordial Wilderness's ascension, that region of laws framed around Kunpeng had become a vast sea.
At the heart of Northern Darkness, Kunpeng's figure shone steadily like a dark beacon with all its lights kindled at once.
The radiance of his laws, grounded in the Ninth Heaven of the Heavenly Dao Saint realm, flowed around him like the tides, steady and enduring as a deep-sea dike.
His gaze pierced the boundary of Northern Darkness Land and settled on the dark-gold demonic qi of Wutian