Treasure Bone Youth Shi Ritian's disciple was the first to rise from the eastern flank of the allied army.
Bone patterns lit across his body with the dark-gold sheen of chaos-forged material. Each was taut as a drawn bowstring, leaving traces of the Eternal Sovereignty Dao in the void.
The moment the law seed formed from the chaos bone bead in his palm unfolded, it spread a domain of bone patterns across a span of several Great Thousand Worlds.
Within the domain, bone patterns surged in overlapping waves, as though countless invisible carving knives were descending at once. The densely packed Devil Dao cultivators had barely touched its edge when a layer of their protective demonic qi was shaved away. A few steps farther in, the frameworks of their laws began to loosen. Deeper still, they were like grain dropped between grinding stones, crushed, broken down, and scattered by the endless turning.
Shi Ritian's disciple stood at the domain's heart, making minute adjustments to his stance as though plucking the string of an invisible giant bow. The frequency of the bone patterns shifted with each movement.
Every shift drove the patterns farther into the demonic army, their reach extending like ancient designs woven across a loom. Bone patterns collided with demonic qi in a ceaseless roar, like two opposing floods battering the same riverbed.
The Devil Dao cultivators caught in the domain gradually lost their orderly formation. Cracks spread through the stable structures of their demonic qi, until they could no longer hold their physical forms together.
Kong Xuan's disciple rose from the southeastern ranks of the allied army. The Five-Colored Divine Light spread behind him like a peacock's tail filling the sky. Green, yellow, red, black, and white radiance flared together in the void, then flickered in turn.
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