"Crack..."

A faint cracking sound echoed through the black stone hall.

The Clone of Chun, sitting to the side, began to tremble. Accompanied by dull fluctuations of Law, dark golden cracks spread across the surface of the wooden statue Clone.

The emerald green Origin of the Law of Life turned into fluorescent light, dissipating from the cracks into the air.

"Oh?"

On the golden throne, Anubis, holding a golden wine goblet, cast a sidelong glance at the statue that was continuously shedding wood shavings. His gray eyes flickered, revealing a gloating smile.

He sipped his date wine and said, "It seems that your old friend from The First World is about to reach her limit in the current world."

Inside the hall, the veiled dancers who had been standing still suddenly became agitated as Anubis's emotions shifted, their Aura becoming restless.

Zhou Huai sat cross-legged beside the low table, holding a white jade wine cup with a calm expression. He did not look up, fiddling with the cup as he replied, "Don't speak too soon. As the Nature Goddess of The First World, her methods are not for you to worry about."

"Heh, Great Xia Country person, what do you know?"

Anubis sneered, set the golden cup on the low table, and arrogantly lifted his chin: "That is Duan. A monster capable of shattering the numerical shackles of the Heavenly Dao System and forcibly devouring the Law Origin of Divine Rank powerhouses like snacks. The methods of a Transcendent are an unsolvable BUG in this current world limited by underlying logic. Her hiding in the Simon City Ruins is nothing but seeking her own death."

Zhou Huai's gaze shifted. He raised his eyes, his dark golden pupils staring straight at Anubis, his expression turning cold.

"Anubis, why do you seem so gleeful?"

Zhou Huai sneered, his voice calm yet oppressive: "We are partners on the same boat now. If she truly cannot escape Mr. Duan's methods and her Origin is drained by Mr. Duan, Mr. Duan's strength will only expand to a more powerful Realm. Do you really think that you, an old fox hiding in a pyramid, will have a chance to stay out of it?"

"Or are you suggesting that your meager spatial maze and River Styx poison gas can last more than three seconds in front of Mr. Duan, who has devoured the Origin Law of Life?"

Hearing this blunt questioning, Anubis's expression stalled. The flesh on his thin face twitched, and his eyes revealed wariness, but he quickly covered it up with an arrogant snort.

"If she only has this much strength, then she was never qualified to be my partner from the beginning."

Anubis stood up, looking down at Zhou Huai from a height, his tone cold and arrogant: "Before the great purge of the Heavenly Dao System, the weak must become fuel for the strong. If she cannot even survive Duan's first round of probing and dies at Duan's hands, it is her deserved fate. Rather than being dragged down by her in the future great decisive battle, it is better to let her satisfy Duan's appetite now; at least... it can buy us time to prepare."

Having said this, Anubis picked up his wine cup again and gestured towards Zhou Huai and the constantly cracking wooden statue.

"Come, half-step Transcendent of Great Xia Country. Let us toast this brave lady."

Anubis wore a cruelly elegant smile: "We don't need to keep waiting for her in this pyramid. Her meager wood-type vitality has already turned into nothingness before the Transcendent Law."

However, facing Anubis's toast, Zhou Huai gently shook his head.

He did not touch the wine cup in front of him, but instead closed his eyes, the Law of Space of the Void Realm Arbiter within him quietly operating. Secret spatial threads followed the connection of Karma between him and the Clone of Chun, crossing the vast ocean of ten thousand miles, and projected directly into the deep bottom of the Simon City Ruins in Great Xia Country.

"No, wait a little longer."

Zhou Huai opened his eyes again, his dark golden pupils flashing with certainty.

He looked at Anubis and said, "There will still be unexpected surprises, won't there?"

Meanwhile.

Thousands of miles away, in Great Xia Country, the underground Simon City Ruins.

The entire vibrant underground Secret Realm had now completely turned into a scorched and boiling ruin.

In the sky, the white dense fog that covered the sun, formed by rolling steam, churned wantonly. The violent temperature and °• N 𝑜 v 𝑒 l i g h t •° the forcibly evaporated water of Origin intertwined in mid-air, emitting a hair-raising "hissing" sound.

"Step... step... step..."

The crisp and rhythmic sound of leather shoes hitting the ground echoed in the silent ruins.

Mr. Duan was dressed in an exquisite black suit, wearing a black top hat, and his silver cane tapped lightly on the scorched ground. His expression was as gentle and calm as ever, and not even his hairstyle was ruffled in the slightest.

However, every time Duan's footsteps fell, an invisible but tyrannical Transcendent pressure would turn into circles of dark ripples, sweeping across the surroundings unreasonably.

The seedlings trying to revive from the scorched earth and the green mist attempting to devour vitality, the moment they touched these dark ripples, disintegrated and withered without suspense, completely turning into void garbled data.

"Is this the capital you think you have to fight me?"

Mr. Duan stopped, tilted his head, and his gaze pierced through the thick white water mist, looking at the void ahead.

"Aren't you underestimating me too much, old friend?"

His voice echoed in the hall, carrying an absolute power of control from above.

"If you don't try, how would you know?"

In mid-air, Chun's voice came again. The voice no longer had the previous arrogance, but instead sounded weak, yet mixed with a determination to burn everything together.

"Stubborn and unyielding."

Mr. Duan sighed softly, his eyes turning cold. He said no more, walking calmly through the now completely ruined site; every step he took, the Law of Annihilation condensed at his fingertips would forcibly modify the surrounding spatial parameters.

"Rumble—!!"

The moment his will descended, the massive, boiling life lake below went completely out of control!

The originally azure water of Origin, under the crushing force of Mr. Duan's irresistible high-dimensional power, began to disintegrate and vaporize at a very fast speed. The violent Law force split the lake water directly into a huge crack a hundred meters deep, and the water flow on both sides turned into water walls a hundred meters high, forcibly retreating to the sides.

The dried-up sludge and dark rocks at the bottom of the lake were exposed to the air.

And in the deepest part of the lake bottom, a stunning figure finally had nowhere to hide.

The layer of light-green light cocoon formed by the Origin Law of Life was now extremely thin, covered with dense cracks. Inside the light cocoon, the true body of Chun was curled up, her long green hair scattered messily, her stunning face full of pallor due to damage to her Origin.

On her exposed skin, ancient and complex tree patterns were emitting a faint glimmer; that was her final life Origin as the guardian of the origin sacred tree.

Mr. Duan walked to the edge of the lake.

He looked down from a height at the stunning figure hidden deep in the lake, a gentle and even regretful smile appearing on his refined face.

"Chun, how long do you intend to hide from me?"