In the void, light and shadow converged in a vast, surging spectacle.
Boundless laws and the power of origins churned like a mighty Heavenly River, crashing together with violent force.
Through these repeated clashes, the colossal beast formed from Mystic Heaven's lingering will finally began to falter, battered until fragments scattered and severed limbs fell away.
Its body was simply too bloated.
It manifested Dharma Aspects without restraint, devouring Origin Energy by instinct alone, then unleashing its power in a frenzy with all the force it could muster.
It was just like the primordial gods and devils born in the void at the dawn of chaos.
But Fang Qianyuan was an intelligent being who had attained his power through cultivation. He comprehended the principles of the laws, commanded the whole battlefield, and held the course of the entire clash firmly in his grasp.
If the Mystic Heaven beast still possessed any advantage, it was that Great Sage Xiangliu's manifestation was helping it now, rather than fighting it to the death and deliberately thwarting it as before.
Great Sage Xiangliu was ferocious beyond measure. Within the nine serpent heads dwelled the nine most terrifying and powerful baleful forces of Nether Heaven's Demonic Path, representing the nine laws of poison, miasma, pestilence, epidemic, plague, calamity, resentment, consumption, and untimely death, along with their corresponding Dao Path origins.
Although Fang Qianyuan had already cultivated to the pinnacle, with a perfected Divine Soul and a body approaching true immortality, he still suffered harm when faced with contamination and erosion from the level of origins themselves.
This was a terrifying power that even true Immortality and Imperishability could not withstand. Even Ancient Immortals faced great tribulations of Heaven and Earth, the Three Calamities and Eight Tribulations, and the Celestial Five Declines.
Fortunately, Nether Heaven squandered