Within Materialized Heaven, across its Colonial Stars.
The citizens of Heaven under Li Chen had developed a flourishing interstellar civilization, and everything here displayed a style entirely different from that of the Immortal Mountain and Blessed Land.
Yet the calamity experienced by Immortal Emperor Xuanling and his subordinates unfolded here as well.
Spirit essence engines stopped turning, magic arrays and restrictions shut down, and the spirit wave network, which should have been continuously receiving, transmitting, and relaying signals, gradually fell silent.
Almost everything related to spiritual essence abruptly ground to a halt, while puppets and components driven by the corresponding principles encountered inexplicable impediments.
This was precisely the nature of the power of law. Before law, everyone was equal; this faction would certainly receive no special treatment merely because it maintained close ties with Li Chen.
Before the power of Dharma's Decline, which wore away transcendent spiritual essence, everything was subject to its influence.
Unlike Immortal Emperor Xuanling and the others, however, the various departments of Materialized Heaven had already responded to the abnormalities in spiritual essence.
They had kept Li Chen's movements within the minor universe under close surveillance all along, and had rushed to manufacture vast quantities of Thunder Essence False Cores, various magic arrays and restrictions, electric motors, and the like, ready to meet any unforeseen developments.
These were creations of the Outer Dao manufactured according to Li Chen's theoretical deductions, using principles beyond transcendent power that lay closer to the Great Dao Origin and the underlying physical laws.
The arrival of Dharma's Decline did not mean that all transcendent power became unusable. In truth, the division between the transcendent and the mundane was merely a human invention. Nature had never recognized such distinctions; so-called transcendence, spiritual essence, and methods of cultivation were likewise defined by people.