The young senior brother remained silent for a long time before answering in an almost dreamlike voice, "That wasn't spiritual energy... that was law."
The young disciple only half understood, but he could hear an unprecedented reverence in his senior brother's tone.
"What kind of law... could turn the sky into this?"
No one answered him.
Because even those who could answer did not know how to describe it.
Deep within the secret realm, Xiao Heng slowly opened his eyes.
What reflected in those eyes were not mountains and rivers, nor stars and moons, but the scene of primordial Chaos first opening.
Laws rose and perished within his pupils. Worlds shattered and reassembled in his gaze. Countless beams of Chaos-colored light surged and roared within an impossibly small space, yet he held them firmly under control with indescribable composure.
Third Sequence God.
It was not a Half-Step Dominator within the Heavenly Vault Ranking system, nor power obtained by relying on the authority of the world.
It was a true Deity Realm, a divine path forged by opening a road through one's own laws.
Xiao Heng gently exhaled.
That breath transformed into a Chaos-colored streak that howled out of the secret realm, spanning the skies above the Heavenly Court's three thousand six hundred palaces.
Wherever the streak passed, every spiritual artifact within every hall trembled faintly, as though paying homage to a higher form of life.
The resonance of Chaos Law rang throughout heaven and earth.
It was not a sound that could be heard by the ears, but one that directly echoed in the depths of every cultivator's soul.
It was like an ancient bell, like the first thunderclap that split heaven and earth apart, like someone announcing to the entire world the birth of a new god.
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