"Spiritbright True Form: Battle Heaven."
As Sun Wang spoke the five words, the phantom of a giant golden ape behind him gripped its staff with both hands and swung upward to meet the attack.
The giant golden staff collided head-on with the enormous dark-purple fist a hundred yards above the Arena.
At the instant of impact, every restriction across the Arena let out a sharp wail.
The vast golden web of laws above the Sky Vault tore open down the middle, leaving a rift hundreds of yards long.
Dense fragments of space and remnants of laws churned along its edges.
They tumbled, collided, fused, and broke apart again, like a bank of clouds torn open and rolling endlessly over itself.
A violent shockwave exploded from the point of impact, shaking the Coiling Dragon Pillars around the Arena until they rattled with a rapid series of cracks.
More fractures appeared across all four pillars, closer together than before.
Of course, those were only surface cracks.
The two phantoms remained locked in a prolonged struggle above the Arena.
The enormous dark-purple fist pressed down on the giant golden staff, while the staff braced against it and drove upward.
The two forces tangled, tore at each other, and seesawed above the Arena. Every clash sent out a shockwave that swept across the entire Arena.
Wave after wave spread outward, each more violent than the last, striking the Coiling Dragon Pillars with a barrage of thunderous blows.
The fractures on the pillars grew more numerous and crowded. What had begun as shallow cracks on their surfaces gradually deepened and widened into fissures that penetrated several layers of each pillar.
The Gold-Patterned Restrictions on the Arena's stone tiles flickered under the unrelenting assault.
Each flicker scattered a fine spray of glowing particles, while the entire