Then the silence was torn apart.
At the boundary between the golden beam and the dark-purple barrier, a burst of light exploded across the entire Arena.
Centered on the point of impact, the light spread in every direction, engulfing everything in a blinding halo of interwoven gold and purple.
It was so bright that every cultivator watching the battle had to close their eyes.
Tens of thousands of law fragments churned within the halo. Each fragment sprayed outward, collided, and burst apart, turning its interior into a chaotic realm of destruction.
The laws within the Coiling Dragon Pillars let out a piercing shriek at that same instant.
Fine cracks appeared across all four pillars at once.
The cracks ran deep beneath their surfaces, leaving visible fractures even in the law structures sealed inside them.
The light lasted a full five breaths.
After five breaths, it gradually dimmed, dissipated, and settled into stillness.
Devil Abyss stood in the center of the Arena, his right palm still thrust forward.
But the dark-purple rune in his palm had shattered more than halfway.
A long gash split the scales down the center of his palm.
Dark-purple demonic blood welled out and ran down his arm, dripping onto the ground and pooling in several small hollows between the stone tiles.
Fine cracks covered the surface of his true form, each one continuously shedding fragments of dark-purple demonic energy.
The fragments drifted from the cracks and swiftly dissolved into the air, as though he were being peeled away from this world bit by bit.
His right arm trembled without pause. Along the edges of the gash in his palm, tiny flecks of golden light still flickered.
That was the last of Sun Wang's golden law, still working inside his body.
Three yards away, Sun Wang knelt