Shen Ni was a Chaos Great Encompassing Golden Immortal native to the Primordial World, nurtured into existence by Pan Gu's baleful qi.
He had never experienced the Chaos Era, nor witnessed how Chaos qi could shift through different dimensions, from one dimension to countless dimensions, during that age.
Even within the bounds of Shen Ni's understanding, it was utterly inconceivable that time, fate, space, and power—the four most fundamental Laws and Order of the Primordial World—could undergo changes involving multiple Dimensions.
Precisely for this reason, in their very first exchange, the Cosmic Multidimensional Vine born of Lin Tian's utterly unexpected species evolution struck him with changes across multiple dimensions, trapping him in a state of dimensional ascension and dimensional reduction.
And this situation.
Could be said to have caught Beast Emperor Shen Ni completely off guard.
After all.
Shen Ni's own energy and the authority over Dao-integrated origin laws he wielded far surpassed those of Lin Tian, a newly ascended Chaos Great Encompassing Golden Immortal.
For the authority Lin Tian wielded had been seized from other Chaos Great Encompassing Golden Immortals, rather than comprehended on his own.
Precisely because of this.
Even when Houtu's Reincarnation Disk had released Pan Gu's figure bearing the All-Heaven Will, and the Heaven-Opening Divine Axe had already cleaved into the space between Shen Ni's eighteen pairs of beast eyes, he had not panicked in the slightest.
After all, the endless Fierce Beasts he had apportioned himself among had already condensed into tens of thousands of Chaos Great Encompassing Golden Immortal Fierce Beasts.
The self-detonation of even a single Chaos Great Encompassing Golden Immortal Fierce Beast would suffice to trigger a chain reaction throughout the Primordial World's Laws and Order.
And the portion of Chaos qi Shen Ni had intercepted tens of millions of years ago