The tidal surge of rule power that Hongjun was triggering at this moment was even more exaggerated than Saine's process of advancing to Level 12.
That Rule Turbulence born from the origin of the Great Dao was like a falling star hurled into the deep sea, ring piling upon ring as it spread madly in all directions from where Hongjun stood. Wherever it passed, the Spatial Barrier of the Gear Time-Space Battlefield trembled faintly, and the giant gears suspended in the starry sky actually let out dull hums along with the Law Tide, as though in awe of this power that far surpassed all common sense.
On this Gear Time-Space Battlefield, more and more Powerful Beings had already concluded that Hongjun was definitely about to complete his leap into the Level-13 Realm.
In truth, by this point, Level-12 Strong Practitioners of Evil Swamp Time-Space such as Agulos and the Heavenly Wing Demon Lord, standing from the position of their own Resource Dimension, should have been doing everything in their power to stop Dao Ancestor Hongjun's leap into the Level-13 Realm next.
But in this actual clash of war between two camps from different time-spaces, as the terrifying force of rule-shaking that Dao Ancestor Hongjun stirred up during his battle against the Evil Spirit King and Wuzhuo grew deeper and more dreadful, almost all those Level-12 Strong Practitioners of the Evil Swamp Time-Space camp were deeply cowed.
At this critical juncture, never mind that Agulos and the Heavenly Wing Demon Lord were unwilling to be the bird that stuck its head out and step forward to try to obstruct Hongjun's leap into the Level-13 Realm—even the Blue-eyed Octopus, faced with this kind of intense battle erupting in the current cosmic starry sky, had mostly solemnity and dread filling the compound eyes