The glow of the Sky-Seeking Divine Realm had yet to fade when battle erupted deep in the mountain forests.
The white-robed Saint King condensed an Order Sword at his fingertips. Before its sword light could descend, the spiritual energy for a thousand miles around was drained dry, and the void crumpled and shattered like a sheet of paper.
The barefoot burly man's Merit Great Hammer followed close behind. The instant it struck, the laws of the earth seethed, and the rolling mountains collapsed with a thunderous crash, sending rubble and lingering waves of law flying across the sky.
The dark figure darted through the gaps, forming the Gold-Black Law into a thin cocoon and taking a Merit Golden Body Fist from Wei Canglan head-on.
Boom!
A shock wave swept outward from the point of impact. The Black Wind Stronghold that had once occupied the area was instantly erased, its earth, rubble, and surviving walls all ground to dust by the power of law.
When the dust cleared, all that remained was a vast, bottomless crater. Its walls were covered in intersecting fissures of law, and even the flow of spiritual energy through the earth veins had been severed by the impact.
The battlefield shifted with astonishing speed.
With a flicker, the dark figure pierced the clouds. Wei Canglan and the black-robed Saint immediately pursued and intercepted it. Where the three auras intertwined, the clouds high above were forcibly torn open into a rift thousands of miles long.
The other Saints each deployed their own methods. The Bronze Battle Halberd cleaved open a shortcut through space, while threads of Heavenly Secrets calculations blanketed the sky, firmly confining the dark figure's escape routes to this stretch of heaven and earth.
Several Saint Tier laws collided in the heavens, each impact stirring thunder