The Golden Sphere stopped a foot or so in front of Fang Qianyuan, spinning rapidly. In Venerable White's fleeting glimpse, she could dimly see long chains as black as ink tethered to his body, connecting him to the deep, boundless reaches of infinite space-time.
Dark gold patterns quietly appeared, covering the pitch-black chains and giving them a metallic texture. Threads like wisps of black mist seeped out of them, stretching in every direction in dense profusion.
They made Fang Qianyuan look as though his hair hung loose and wild around him.
The chains, manifestations of laws, pierced Fang Qianyuan's limbs and torso, making him seem bound beneath this stretch of heaven and earth. Yet countless threads spread from the places where the chains pulled at him, weaving into a net that was growing ever denser.
They drifted through nearly a thousand miles of heaven and earth, merging into the void, present everywhere, forming a net that blanketed the sky and earth. The threads of laws Venerable Azure and Venerable White had been contending with had actually all extended from it.
These threads had even pierced their protective gang qi and the domains covering their bodies without their noticing, clashing fiercely with their expanded domains. An inexplicable chill rose from the depths of Venerable White's heart, and she felt as though even her blood was about to freeze.
But this was not what had shocked Venerable White. She had already suspected that Fang Qianyuan had cultivated to the Heavenly Dao Realm, allowing him to achieve a preliminary degree of Dao Unification and merge into this stretch of heaven and earth.
What truly shocked her was the thing Fang Qianyuan was actually fighting, ensnaring and pulling at it with the Law Chains.
It was a mass of gray hovering above them all,