Even if he had been the one left standing in the end, Azure Sky would not have considered himself the winner. In terms of inherent value, every Heavenly Law Ancient Treasure surpassed the life of a Lesser Heavenly Supreme Rank Cultivator. Using such an item against a Supreme Cultivator who had yet to cultivate the Three Qi was, to begin with, an act of wasting heavenly treasures on a trivial matter.
If the message Red Cloud had sent him had not claimed that the legendary item had been seen—an item ranked even higher than a Heavenly Law Ancient Treasure—if Azure Sky had not wanted to rescue his brother, then for your life alone, even if you had directly killed Azure Sky's Spirit Body, he would have been reluctant to use Speech Establishes Rules.
Yet just as Azure Sky's inheritor had begun considering how to make up for the losses, utterly convinced of your death, that terrifying force of judgment—enough to make all Lesser Heavenly Supreme Rank Cultivators avoid it like the plague—encountered, at the very moment it was about to take away your consciousness, another power whose essence was equally powerful beyond belief...
Compared to the overwhelming power of judgment, the latter resembled an emotionless machine even more. Or rather, this power was itself a wooden puppet, rigidly charging into the force of judgment. Yet it was not the "moth flying into the flame" others imagined; there was no disparity in scale between the two.
The instant this power appeared, you, whose consciousness had been blank and frozen, also regained a fleeting moment of clarity from death's embrace...
In your hand, Tian Cheng Fang Ju—the cubic treasure you had believed to be indestructible, the treasure that had made you feel invincible—now bore several distinct dents across its surface. Though surviving