"Very good!
That's it, you old Island-Moving bastard—burn that pitiful scrap of your law origin for all you're worth!"
The High Priest sneered inwardly.
"The more you burn, the easier it'll be to deal with you later!"
The reason He had not used more powerful means to try to break the deadlock in an instant, and had even cooperated with the other party's "stalling,"
was precisely because He had other calculations in mind...
He knew full well that an old monster like Island-Moving Venerable, once driven into a corner, was very likely to choose mutual destruction—
just like that previous 'old immortal,' who would rather cast the [Purgatory World-Extinguishing Millstone] into the chaotic currents of spacetime and lose it forever than let it fall into enemy hands!
The High Priest's target was not merely Island-Moving Venerable's life, but also the supreme Formation Artifact in his hand—the [Myriad Manifestations Pure Source River]!
The value of this treasure far surpassed the life of a mid-stage Spirit Transformation Venerable!
He would never allow the same regret to happen again!
Thus, He chose the most reliable and least taxing method—
boiling a frog in warm water.
He would let Island-Moving Venerable exhaust his own law origin bit by bit in despair.
As long as the other party's origin ran dry, he would no longer be able to drive the [Myriad Manifestations Pure Source River] to carry out long-distance spacetime exile.
This supreme treasure would then be destined to fall into His pocket!
After all, what He was consuming was merely the power of laws, which was relatively easy to recover, while the other party was consuming his fatal law origin.
In this war of attrition, victory was already firmly in His grasp. He stood undefeated!
Elsewhere, deep within a magnificent hall of the True