The blade returned to his palm, and every flowing law settled into stillness.
Deathly silence still shrouded the entire Death Demon Cavern. Across the millions of miles of Purgatory, not a trace of life could be seen. Its desolation and cold had remained unchanged since ancient times.
But only Shiheng, who had personally experienced the sacrifice of laws and the Divine Artifact's transformation, knew that the inner aura of this sealed domain deep within the Hell Plane had changed completely.
This cavern was a cage personally laid out by the Overgod, the Demon Race Ancestor. Its original purpose was to suppress Other Shore Flower, a Paragon High-God who controlled the Laws of Death. Beyond imprisoning her, the great formation continuously wore away at her day after day, stripping the Paragon laws from her body to nurture other shore flowers.
These other shore flowers were cultivation resources exclusive to the Demon Race. Once processed, they could nourish the Profound Mysteries of Death of everyone in the race with an aptitude for death, making her a permanent source of nourishment personally raised in captivity by an Overgod. At her peak, Other Shore Flower could overawe the entire cavern's Purgatory with her Paragon Willpower Might alone. Even Seven-Star Fiends who entered the cavern's inner reaches would have their Divine Souls crushed and gravely injured by the laws, and could even perish. This was why Oakes Redding had warned him back then that even Seven-Star Fiends had only a slim chance of surviving an expedition to gather flower fruits.
Now, the will of the Death Paragon High-God that had sustained the entire Purgatory and suppressed its spatial barriers layer by layer had been completely withdrawn and fused into the battle blade in his hand.
Without the foundation of supreme Paragon laws as its central