"Urgh—!"
Chu Tian let out a low roar, suppressed to the utmost, and abruptly dropped to one knee in the void. He clutched his chest tightly, where his clothes had already been soaked through with dark-gold blood.
The Black Chain formed from the Return-to-Silence Key was not merely a physical restraint, but an overwhelmingly tyrannical invasion of laws. Like millions upon millions of poisoned steel needles, it madly pierced into Chu Tian's heart meridians, Dao foundation, and even the depths of his soul.
"Chu Tian! Feel this purest destruction!" Return-to-Silence Heavenly Emperor's wild laughter echoed through Chu Tian's sea of consciousness. "This Return-to-Silence Key contains this Emperor's most core Law of Nirvana. This Emperor will forcibly turn it into your 'Return-to-Silence Dao Foundation'! From this day forth, the Hongmeng power of creation within you will slaughter each other with this power of destruction forever, until you are completely reduced to this Emperor's puppet!"
"Rumble—!"
Within Chu Tian, the once perfectly balanced Primordial Great Thousand World instantly descended into apocalyptic turmoil.
The violet-gold Hongmeng laws represented creation and inclusiveness; the black Return-to-Silence chains represented absolute destruction and devouring; while that trace of the Coexistence Law comprehended within the Taiyi Source Sea was caught between them, attempting to forcibly reconcile them.
The three supreme laws collided and fought madly within Chu Tian's dantian. His terrifying mid-Creation Realm aura completely spiraled out of control, and his dark-gold blood and qi erupted outward like a volcano, directly shredding the void within a hundred zhang into an absolute vacuum.
Sinister black demonic patterns instantly crawled across the right half of Chu Tian's face. His golden eye was being devoured bit by bit by a pitch-black vortex.
Demonic corruption!
"Little Brother!"
Having just shattered the final sacrificial banner, Chu Yunshang's eyes nearly split open at the