The Rift-Splitting Emperor Monarch began to retreat.
It was not that he had abandoned the battlefield in Clear River Time-Space. Rather, the pitch-black lotus shadows formed by the Destruction Black Lotus were sealing off, one by one, the spatial coordinates around him that he could use to shift or jump.
The Rift-Splitting Emperor Monarch excelled above all in the rules governing space and the Cross-dimensional Passage.
In the many dimension wars that Source-Devouring Time-Space had waged in the past, this Emperor Monarch-level being had relied on the Dimension-Rending Shuttle to move effortlessly between different star territory battlefields.
Even opponents at his own level found it extremely difficult to truly lock onto his rule true body.
But the power of destruction Locke wielded clearly had no interest in playing by the Rift-Splitting Emperor Monarch's space rules or coordinate shifts.
The God Slaying Spear pointed at one thing alone—the Rift-Splitting Emperor Monarch's origin core!
The Dimension-Rending Shuttle flew from the Rift-Splitting Emperor Monarch's hand once again.
The already badly damaged Dimension Supreme Treasure split into ten thousand copies in midflight.
Countless silver-yellow shuttle shadows appeared in the nearby starry sky, and a deep, narrow spatial rift swiftly opened behind each one.
These spatial rifts led to different interlayers of rules. A few even connected directly to other distant star territories within Clear River Time-Space.
The Rift-Splitting Emperor Monarch clearly intended to scatter Locke's destructive power.
Once the God Slaying Spear pursued him into the wrong spatial rift, he could use the real Dimension-Rending Shuttle to open his true escape route.
Endless silver-yellow cutting edges then slashed at Locke from every direction.
No violent explosions erupted in the starry sky of Clear River Time-Space where these edges swept past.
Instead, the entire expanse of space resembled a curtain of water sliced by a