The Feather Emperor

The rifts burrowed into the distortion layer like five silver-gray snakes and began tearing apart the energy structure from within.

The grand array shuddered violently.

All twelve blood essence crystals blazed with blinding crimson light. The light converged on the array's core, trying to suppress the invading spatial rifts.

The two kinds of laws clashed ferociously inside the array. Blood-red distortions and silver-gray rifts collided, tore at one another, and annihilated each other in the void.

Wave after wave of shock waves spread outward from the array's core.

Fine cracks appeared in the surrounding void under the tremors, and the shock waves battered the energy barrier above the palace into violent fluctuations.

Jiang Muzhou's face paled. His right hand remained pressed against the energy distortion layer as the five spatial rifts extended, branched, and extended again.

Fine beads of sweat seeped from his forehead, and the energy tremors tore several gashes in the hem of his long coat.

Ten seconds. The spatial rifts tore through the energy distortion layer's first structure. A long gash split the dark red patterns, and the space rule along its edges kept breaking down the blood-red energy.

Twenty seconds. The second structure was torn apart. The array shook even more violently, and fine cracks appeared in one of the twelve blood essence crystals.

Thirty seconds. The third structure began to collapse. A trace of blood seeped from the corner of Jiang Muzhou's mouth—the backlash from pushing his space rule to its limit. His right hand trembled violently, and two of the five spatial rifts were already showing signs of instability.

Forty seconds. The energy distortion layer collapsed completely. The blood-red patterns exploded from the middle, spraying dark red light in every direction. All twelve blood essence crystals shattered at once, scattering fragments through the void.