Qi Wu saw the hexahedron slowly deforming under the rule slashes, its edges no longer as even as before.
During the time after information recursion was diverted, he had reassigned that portion of his output capacity to the rule slashes, raising their frequency past the critical threshold where they outpaced the hexahedron's self-repair.
Under the continuous barrage of slashes, the hexahedron's inner walls began to deform, changing from a regular six-sided structure into an irregular shape with jagged edges.
The energy distribution sustaining the structure could no longer maintain its original balance, and the inner walls began thinning unevenly.
Di Tian sensed the unstable fluctuations of the hexahedron as it was gradually dismantled from within.
His movements remained steady. He merely adjusted the direction of his output, diverting some energy from external maintenance to filling the gaps inside.
But before he could finish that adjustment, the hexahedron's thinnest point had already taken sixteen consecutive hits from the rule slashes.
It pierced through the fissure and extended toward Di Tian. The fissure traced a brief arc through the air, stopping roughly three paces in front of him.
Di Tian's four wing bones folded inward at once, like a sluice gate closing. They caught the edges of the fissure and stopped it against their surfaces.
"That strike reached the demigod-level threshold," Di Tian said.
Qi Wu did not answer.
He adjusted his stance again, and the boundary of Boundless Myriad Phenomena spread out around him once more, restoring the coverage it had held before the hexahedron compressed it.
"Your threshold came sooner than I expected."
Di Tian continued, "But a threshold is not a limit. You still have some distance to go."
"You're the one who has some distance to go before reaching me," Qi Wu said.
After confirming that slight irregularities