Nan Caiming raised his head and looked into the void, his eyes narrowing slightly. At this moment, an awareness was entering the Space Rule he controlled, trying to contend with him for authority over it.
In the Ruin Realm, when manifestation rules first appeared, the Ninth-Order experts whose Traits were more compatible with them took control of those rules.
Because Contention for the Great Dao was a contest within the rule itself to see who had grasped more of that rule. Then, step by careful step, one would drive the other party's awareness out of the rule, and that would complete one's control over that rule.
However, as Contention for the Great Dao evolved later on, it was no longer a matter of whose divine soul Traits better suited the rule and who could therefore control it, but whose fists were bigger—and only they could control that rule.
Because the other Ninth-Order experts no longer competed with you in awareness within the rule. Instead, they found your true body directly and destroyed it. Naturally, there would then be no competitor left.
This was also the reason behind the Ruin Realm's great Ninth-Order melee back then. To fight over stronger rules, nearly every Ninth-Order expert personally entered the fray.
They forged alliances vertically and horizontally, using every means imaginable, and only then did the Ruin Realm's current situation take shape.
This was why, once a Ninth-Order expert discovered that their rule had been entered by another awareness, their reaction would be so intense. Because for this rule, they were not necessarily the one whose divine soul was the most compatible.
Although they had controlled the rule for so many years and had long since understood every detail of it with perfect clarity, normally speaking, even in Contention for the Great Dao,