Almost at the very instant the scarlet runes appeared...
As though he had rehearsed it countless times already, Island-Moving Venerable's hands flashed through the profound Seal Technique he had been preparing for so long!
Buzzz!
Upon the surface of the enormous cage trapping the Progenitor, its golden radiance surging, upon the light wall that had originally been seamless and ever-flowing...
Grooves abruptly emerged, each and every one perfectly matching the size and shape of those blood-red runes!
The appearance of these grooves was by no means disorderly.
Accompanied by an exceedingly faint yet profoundly mysterious hum, golden patterns—intersecting, dense, and intricate beyond measure—spread and grew outward from every groove like living vines!
In the blink of an eye, they traced a vast and mysterious array pattern across the surface of the colossal cage!
Most hair-raising of all, the number, thickness, and direction of these newly formed golden patterns...
Perfectly matched, down to every detail, the fine blood-red chains of law entwined around each bloody rune!
It was as though they had always been two sides of the same whole—the yin and yang keys to the same lock!
Click!
Click! Click!
Amid a succession of crisp yet eerie sounds, like precision mechanisms meshing together...
One bloody rune after another embedded itself with flawless accuracy into the grooves on the cage's surface!
At the same time.
The scarlet chains coiled around the runes' surfaces seemed to have found their destination. They unfurled and spread outward on their own!
They overlapped and fused seamlessly with the golden patterns that had just appeared on the cage's surface!
Buzzz—!!!
In an instant, the entire golden cage erupted with an unprecedented, earthshaking radiance!
The originally pure and sacred golden brilliance, filled with the power of confinement, was now stained by the embedded blood-red runes and the