Green and An Tuximo stood side by side.
Master and disciple faced the vast, majestic dark vortex hanging overhead and the Dark Sacred Ancestor Wushi, whose presence bore down with the force to crush mountains and rivers, each displaying their divine might.
Green, having opened his Wizard Ancestor Form, altered rule units and rule properties. With his spiritualized azure hand, the Face of Truth, Robe of Appearances, Book of Life and Death, Truth-Balance Magic Staff, Titan Attrition Ring, and many other formidable magic artifacts assisting him, he handled matters with ease, chiefly countering the Dark Sacred Ancestor Wushi's endlessly emerging Source of Darkness abilities.
An Tuximo, having activated his True Body of the Ancestor of Humanity, based his dazzling abilities on the Rule of Destruction. As a being capable of stepping through the Penetrating Gate, that incomparably terrifying realm of chaotic spacetime rules, An Tuximo's resistance to all manner of spacetime abilities had reached an unimaginable level. Thus, he chiefly countered the spacetime power of the Dark Sacred Ancestor Wushi's Dark Gate.
Goo goo goo goo!
A black owl head tens of thousands of meters across slowly emerged from the Dark Gate vortex. Its utterly lightless black eyes descended with Green at their center, seemingly intending to swallow him whole.
This so-called owl was naturally not a true owl. It was an outward manifestation of the rules of mysterious power, much like the various phenomena when the Light of Balance Rules had appeared within the Dimensional Esophagus.
Enveloped by this entirely new Source of Darkness rule, Green, wrapped in milky-white balanced radiance, began uncontrollably spewing thick smoke from the Three-Colored Light Eyes, nostrils, mouth, and ears beneath the Face of Truth, as though he were being swallowed by the enormous owl's pitch-black eyes above.
It was as though some of