Cracks spread wildly from the centers of the Defense Formations on the Secret Chamber's four walls. Spiritual light flickered across the stone like oil lamps that could go out at any moment.
The entire Secret Chamber shook. A teacup rolled off the table and shattered, and Old Ancestor Cangwu hauled Lin Qingzhu behind him.
The commotion inside the Black Iron Case grew louder and louder.
Law Fragments of different attributes collided wildly inside the Earth Vein Instrument. Metal overcame wood, fire overcame metal, and lightning struck everything. The law powder that had been forcibly crushed and stuffed inside turned hostile again, tearing at and devouring one another. Violent energy surged out of the case's opening.
The dark-gold patterns that had finally emerged on the case's walls were cracking at a speed visible to the naked eye.
Old Ancestor Cangwu's voice cracked. "Stop! The laws are rejecting one another! The whole thing is going to blow!"
He formed seals with both hands, and a green barrier of vines abruptly unfurled in front of him and Lin Qingzhu.
The Alliance Leader and Old Ancestor Xuanming moved almost simultaneously. Two curtains of light, one purple and one white, swept in from either side, enveloping the entire rear half of the Secret Chamber.
Emperor Jiang Wu's phantom drifted thirty feet backward. "The Earth Vein Instrument can't withstand this," he said gravely. "Keep pouring power into it, and the entire Secret Chamber will be blown apart."
The Black Iron Case was already bouncing on the floor, pounding new cracks into the stone slabs every time it landed.
The mingled radiance gushing from its opening seared their eyes until they ached. Multicolored Law Fragments devoured one another, exploded, then devoured one another and exploded again, trapped in an increasingly violent death spiral.
Zhou Xuan crouched before