It was not just him.
Old Ancestor Cangwu's sword heart lost its edge, Emperor Jiang Wu's domineering law was suppressed, and Ji Chen's divination Compass stopped moving altogether.
The authority they shared was stripped away in an instant before that Order.
Crack... crack...
Without laws to support it, fine cracks began appearing in the Central Province Continent's hard World Crystal Wall.
Central Province was being dismantled at the level of its laws.
"Do you see now, heretic?"
The adjudicator's voice rang out again, ice-cold.
"Your power... your world, everything you rely on is built upon chaos. And before Order, chaos cannot withstand a single blow."
He stared at the black-robed figure, at the center of the vortex.
The Three-Colored Laws of creation, destruction, and Slaughter around Zhou Xuan were rapidly going out.
His connection to his own Dao Fruit had been forcibly severed.
He was trapped inside his own world, yet could not command even a trace of his own power.
This was deprivation, a crushing assault from a higher dimension.
Within the Central Province Continent, everyone felt a tremor rising from their souls. They could not even struggle.
"Rules?"
Zhou Xuan suddenly spoke in a low voice. He raised his head, his dark-gold eyes stripped of mockery and impatience amid that deathly despair.
In their place was a madness that made even the adjudicator sense something was wrong.
"Then... shatter the rules."
Under the horrified gazes of Old Ancestor Cangwu, Ji Chen, and the others, Zhou Xuan did something no one had expected.
He actually ignited the black-gold Dao Fruit that had sunk deep within his body.
He was not activating it or unleashing its power. He was setting it alight.
Burning his Dao Fruit outright.
"Master! You mustn't! This... you can't do this!"
Ji Chen cried out, his