He couldn't shatter it.
Or rather, he no longer had time to shatter it.
The concentration of the Law of Fire was still rising. Orange-red light filled the space inside the Guixu Pearl, and the temperature was so high that even space itself was warping slightly.
Summers activated his Corrosion Dao.
Dark green law power turned into a cloud of acid mist, attempting to corrode the flames.
It was useless.
The acid mist evaporated completely the instant it touched the flames. The Law of Fire was too pure, far purer than any Way of Fire a Celestial Immortal Realm cultivator could condense.
This wasn't one person's power.
Summers finally realized what was happening.
Chen Hao's aura wasn't the only one within these flames. There was another power, deep and primal—the power of fire from a celestial body's origin.
Mars.
All the fire origin that the planet had accumulated within itself over hundreds of millions of years had been channeled here.
"You..." A glimmer of understanding flashed through Summers's compound eyes. "You planned all of this."
Even the battlefield had been chosen in advance.
Mars's orbit.
The black hole triggered when Chen Hao and Blind Ancient perished together had devoured Mars, and Mars's fire origin had been used to refine him.
"Well played, Chen Hao." Summers stopped roaring.
His hundreds of compound eyes closed simultaneously, then opened again.
The law radiance of five Great Daos flickered wildly across his body: scarlet, dark green, pitch-black, gray-white, and dark purple.
The five colors intertwined, forming his last line of defense across his body.
He had no intention of waiting to die.
"You want to refine me?" A crack opened in Summers's carapace... one he had opened himself. A mass of pitch-black law power burst from the crack. It was the origin of the