After the Demon Cave Master's Origin Heart Core shattered, on the battlefield outside.
His rule true body, vast enough to cover great swaths of the star sea, finally began to collapse in a way that could not be reversed.
This was not an ordinary worsening of injuries.
It was as if someone had carved open a gaping hole straight through the foundation of his life!
Black-purple cracks, like countless demon serpents gone out of control, continuously spread outward from within the Demon Cave Master's rule true body.
At first, those cracks only remained on the surface, but very soon they delved deep into his rule skeleton, Divine Soul core, physical origin, and even the once-deepest binding between him and the Demon Cave Time-Space.
The roars that the Demon Cave Master let out no longer carried even the slightest majesty the way they had in the past.
Mixed within them were unmistakable pain, fear, and a hoarseness almost like that of a dying beast.
But a Level-13 Lord of Dimensional Planes was ultimately no ordinary life-form. Even with his Origin Heart Core shattered, even with his rule true body already collapsing beyond reversal, he still did not die completely on the spot.
In fact, at this very moment, the Demon Cave Master was still desperately searching for any possible way to salvage the situation!
His Divine Soul began to shrink without end.
The immense shadow of Divine Soul that had once spread wide enough to cover countless star sectors contracted in an extremely short span of time into a mass of Purple Demon Flames so dense it was nearly black.
That mass of demon flames tried to evade Locke's Destruction Tide, and also tried to evade the imprint of Mechanical Rules that Saine had previously left within the Eye of the