The strength and mysterious methods Chu Ming had displayed made them classify him as someone "not to be provoked lightly."
Since the other party's target was merely that side chamber rather than the Resonance Heart Core, they were naturally glad to have one less formidable enemy.
The three sides remained locked in confrontation.
Only, the atmosphere had become even subtler and more vigilant.
The Patriarch Xuanci was no longer as aggressive as before, while the alliance between the Northern Abyss Frost Domain and the Goldstone Sect seemed to have tightened further, faintly taking on the posture of jointly resisting the Patriarch Xuanci.
Meanwhile, inside the Order Resonance Chamber, the scene was entirely different.
The stone chamber was not large, only three zhang square. Soft, pure gray-gold Order light flowed across its four walls and domed ceiling.
The source of that light was a tiny natural spring on the floor at the center of the chamber, continuously seeping pale golden liquid.
Ancient patterns sharing the same origin as the Order Fireseed runes were carved all around the spring.
This was a sacred ground of Order. All foreign, chaotic law auras were shut out, leaving only the purest and most stable Order fluctuations to flow and resonate slowly.
Within it, Chu Ming felt the Order Fireseed inside him become more active than ever. Its fusion resonance with the Dao Seed grew clearer, and even suppressing the Seed of the Abyss became a little easier.
"A fine place!" Venerable Lingfeng praised as he sensed the pure Order environment within the chamber. "Refining that Primordial Dew here will surely yield twice the result with half the effort."
"Friend Chu, was that method you used earlier meant to temporarily designate this place as your 'domain'?"
"Something like that." Chu Ming sat cross-legged beside the spring