"This time, I have to thank Divine Buddha for stepping in. Otherwise, I'm afraid I wouldn't have been able to kill him." Xiao Yun put away the Donghuang Bell and looked at Divine Buddha with a smile.
Divine Buddha shook his head. "This man invaded the Nine Heavens Continent and clearly harbored ill intent. As a member of the Nine Heavens Continent, it is naturally my duty to protect it."
Xiao Yun smiled but said no more. Instead, he took out the two diamond-shaped crystals—one silver, one black—and handed them to Divine Buddha for inspection.
"Divine Buddha, do you know what these are? Why did such things remain after I killed the Nether Emperor?"
Xiao Yun looked puzzled. "Moreover, even Heavenly Venerables cannot endure for long in the deepest layers of chaotic space, yet these things are unafraid of those spatial storms. They can even withstand the Donghuang Bell's attacks."
"These things..."
Divine Buddha carefully examined the diamond-shaped crystals in his hand. His brows rose slightly, and a trace of shock appeared on his face. "They seem to be formed entirely from laws—and origin laws at that. That is almost impossible."
"Laws are shapeless and intangible. Can they actually materialize?" Xiao Yun was equally shocked.
Divine Buddha pondered. "The materialization of laws is indeed hard to believe. But this Nether Emperor may not have been a dead native of the Nine Heavens Continent reincarnated in the Netherworld. If he was an outsider from another world, then... anything is possible."
"An outsider? A transmigrator?" Xiao Yun's gaze sharpened. Indeed, this Nether Emperor's cultivation technique was very strange. Judging from his moves, there seemed to be no trace of divine abilities or combat techniques. What he wielded was the purest power of laws.
Moreover, the Nether Emperor's mastery over laws had nearly