The chaos torrent surged and scoured without restraint. The Gold-Black Law barrier around Qin He's body condensed ever more tightly, while the Sourcebirth Law threaded into the surrounding turbulent currents like wisps of silk, slowly weaving along the trail of that dark-red firelight.
After evading a Wind Blade Law that tore through the void and circling around a black hole of Void Law that devoured spiritual qi, the chaos ahead gradually thinned somewhat.
That wisp of dark-red firelight finally came clearly into view.
Rather than the blazing outward flare of an ordinary Demon Flame, the Devouring Heaven and Earth Flame had contracted into a fist-sized fire core. Dark-red halos flowed across its surface, yet fine black markings coiled around the edges of those halos—traces of the Devouring Law having seeped into it to the utmost extreme.
It had no fixed form. At times, it solidified like crystal; at others, it dispersed like mist. With every pulse, the surrounding torrent of laws instinctively retreated three paces.
There was no earth-shaking heatwave, only a domineering presence restrained to the absolute extreme, as though all things beneath heaven and earth were merely nourishment to be devoured and refined before it.
Even Qin He's Merit Soul Body could sense a trace of instinctive palpitations. This was the Devouring Heaven and Earth Flame, the most adept at devouring among the Nine Great Demon Flames. Its reputation was well deserved.
But in the next instant, Qin He's brows knitted tightly, and his aura sank a few degrees.
Seven luminous white divine chains were actually wrapped around that dark-red fire core.
The divine chains were not physical objects, but were condensed entirely from pure Order Law. Each was as thick as a finger, its surface carved with ancient Runes. As the Runes flowed, they radiated a gentle