Forbidden Sea, due east.
This stretch of void, originally chaotic and disorderly...
was now completely shrouded in a resplendent golden radiance that was sacred yet brimming with endless destruction!
The golden light resembled tangible liquid flames, flowing and roiling through the void to form a vast, boundless domain of gold.
At the heart of the domain stood a golden cage that reached from heaven to earth, forged from pure laws of thunder!
Countless thick golden pillars of lightning, like dragons, crashed down violently and without pause from the cage's dome, with only one target—
the figure at the center of the cage, trying to tear through space as bloodlight surged wildly around him!
That was right!
It was the Progenitor of the Purgatory Clan!
At this moment, he had long lost his once world-conquering majesty.
His incomparably sturdy blood-red battle armor was covered in charred cracks. The profound runes upon it flickered erratically beneath the relentless bombardment of lightning, like a dying candle in the wind.
Each strike of lightning made his body shudder violently. Though he had not been completely crushed, the terrifying aura around him that could shake the cosmos was visibly weakening and dwindling away bit by bit.
Golden arcs of lightning, like maggots clinging to bone, leaped and bored madly against the bloodlight shielding his body, letting out piercing sizzling sounds.
They were wearing away his power of laws.
"Roar!"
The Progenitor let out a roar mixed with pain and furious rage, his scarlet eyes fixed upon the emptiness beyond the cage.
In that seemingly vacant place, he could distinctly sense a cold, focused gaze that carried the meaning of absolute control.
Island-Moving Venerable!
Like the supreme deity of this golden thunderous heavenly domain, he sat cross-legged within a "river" stretching across the void.
The river