Above the vast Lingmeng Sky, endless laws surged and shook. The unseen laws of the heavens thundered, their roar shaking the universe in every direction.
Brilliant, majestic Contract Divine Runes descended from the Star River, boundlessly profound and intricately patterned. Like interwoven chains of the Heavenly Dao, they hung densely throughout the void. Every rune bore an oath of the eternal Great Way and the binding force of laws that could not be defied. All of them branded themselves deep into the Divine Soul origins of Shiheng and the three remnant Saints of antiquity.
Their Divine Souls trembled as the Dao oath bound them.
From that moment, the contract was complete. The karma of all four parties was firmly bound together, their Divine Souls closely linked. With heaven and earth as witnesses and the heavens as testimony, there would be no room for regret or reversal through all the ages to come.
The three supreme powerhouses of antiquity, whose bearing had always been upright and proudly unyielding, slowly straightened.
The Primordial Earth-vein Divine Tortoise bore the patterns of eternal mountains and rivers on his back, his weighty divine might slowly spreading. The Primordial Blood-colored Flood Dragon Venerable reined in his towering ferocity, the murderous malice fading from his draconic eyes. The Elder of the Remnant Fate Laws's white hair drifted in the wind, his weathered face no longer carrying its former stubborn resolve.
They had completely shed their former fierce pride that preferred death to submission. Only the steadiness and solemnity of those who honored the laws of a contract remained around them. Having weathered countless ages and watched the rise, decline, and succession of the heavens, the three understood far more clearly than any other living beings that this million-year Divine Soul contract had never been the lowly submission