Xie Xiyi did not respond. The slightest lapse on his part would let the laws slip in.
The demonic heart he had once insisted on suppressing now became his moat. Born of his past lives, it remained rock-solid after two lifetimes and had some power to resist the laws.
This was a long, grueling battle.
And the Haoyuan Realm suffered devastation because of this immense battle. The storms of spiritual power stirred up by the clash of laws were like the most terrifying meat grinders, reducing even the strongest cultivators to dust. This made the spiritual power between heaven and earth even denser. The more spiritual power the storms swept up, the greater the damage they inflicted on the Haoyuan Realm, forming a vicious cycle.
The laws bearing the will of Demon Kingdom Xie Xiyi did not care about any of this, but the Heavenly Dao did. The Heavenly Dao and the world were one: they prospered and suffered together. Yang Min, the child of fortune, was still weak, and Chi Yu, the backup child of fortune meant to replace Yang Min, had been lured away and sent off by Xie Xiyi. It had no fallback or escape, yet it was riddled with weaknesses.
The Heavenly Dao had little memory of the previous two resets. Only through the resonance of the laws did it vaguely sense something, which was why it had summoned Chi Yu to replace Yang Min.
Among mortals, there were gamblers who would never leave the table once they sat down unless they died. The Heavenly Dao was the same. Once it joined the game, it would never leave, and so it made the same choice every time.
Only when Xie Xiyi came knocking and countless world-destroying storms swept through the Haoyuan Realm did it begin to