Time slipped quietly by amid the radiance of laws in the Thirty-Three Heavens.
In the deepest reaches of Great Luo Heaven, Pan Xuan sat cross-legged within the chaos-colored core of laws.
The purple-gold light of the Divine Dao around him mingled and flowed with the surrounding networks of laws, the two long since indistinguishable.
The Star Divine Dao Seal hung above his head, the Primordial Heaven-Measuring Ruler lay across his knees, and the Treasure-Dropping Golden Coin floated silently before him. The three supreme treasures each radiated light of a different intensity, waxing and waning in time with his breathing.
The Nine-Clawed Golden Dragon Law Deity coiled behind him, every pattern on his scales growing more profound after long ages steeped in laws.
Purple and gold light flowed ceaselessly through his dragon eyes, each blink stirring resonance in the surrounding networks of laws.
He slowly opened his eyes.
Within those eyes, as gentle and lustrous as jade, the purple-gold light of the Divine Dao receded like a tide, replaced by a more restrained, more steady radiance.
The Light of Laws of a late-stage Primordial Origin Golden Immortal.
His cultivation had firmly entered this realm, and the aura around him was more profound than before his seclusion.
Like a mountain that had endured ten thousand ages without shifting, he was steady and restrained, his edge concealed, yet he inspired involuntary awe.
The structures of the foreign gods' laws he had witnessed on his journey into Chaos, the essence of the Great Dao contained within Great Luo Heaven, and the merit and fortune accumulated over long ages.
During his seclusion, he had integrated all of these into a firm foundation for his breakthrough to the late-stage Primordial Origin Golden Immortal realm.
He slowly rose, Vast Righteous Qi circulating ceaselessly within him. The Merit