After the core fringe nodes of the second Destruction Star Zone changed hands, the first thing to undergo change was Locke's Paradise Lost Time-Space.
A black-red rule network, nearly imperceptible to the naked eye, stretched from the direction of the Bronze Gate through multiple dimensional spaces before ultimately plunging deep into Paradise Lost Time-Space.
Dense Origin of Destruction began slowly flowing along this rule network.
Compared with the more violent and chaotic Power of Destruction from the Crystal Tide Wrath Beast Star Sector, the origin from the Empty-Faced Burning Monarch Star Sector clearly contained many special darkness and spatial attributes.
After these foreign rules entered Paradise Lost Time-Space, they did not immediately spread outward.
The Destruction Black Lotus beneath Locke's feet absorbed them first.
The twelve-grade pitch-black lotus platform slowly blossomed as the origin of the Destruction Star Zone flowed into it.
Fine dark-golden patterns began appearing across the surfaces of its black lotus petals.
The darkness and spatial attributes originating from the Empty-Faced Burning Monarch formed extremely subtle Rule Rifts along the edges of the petals.
These rifts did not damage the integrity of the Destruction Black Lotus.
Instead, they made the rule-sealing power released by the Destruction Black Lotus even deeper and more profound.
The God Slaying Spear standing before Locke also let out another low hum during this process.
The dark-golden gleam at its tip, originating from Destruction Time-Space, had become more solid than before.
Upon close observation, one would discover a faint ring of darkness-space cracks surrounding the dark-golden spear light.
These changes did not immediately allow Locke to break through in his Life Realm.
However, the Power of Destruction he could now wield, as well as the foundation of his own rules, had clearly surpassed what it had been before he deployed troops into Destruction