"Bang."
Within the manor, the space suppressed by Old Demon Chu.
The gauntlet suddenly exploded.
"Ah..."
The exploding gauntlet was accompanied by a sharp scream.
Old Demon Chu's face changed drastically. He couldn't bother to control the space anymore.
"Suppress."
Demonic flames surged, transforming into a large hand that struck the gauntlet.
But the next moment, the large hand exploded with a "bang."
What exploded the demonic hand was not the gauntlet, but a sound...
"Scram."
Old Demon Chu also heard this voice.
His head exploded with a "bang."
This scene was too sudden...
The gauntlet continued to shatter.
Old Demon Chu was also in a miserable state, his physical body continuously collapsing downwards, starting from his head.
This scene stunned everyone in the manor.
"What happened?"
Those kneeling on the ground slowly raised their heads.
The imperial might had disappeared, and the pressure that had been lingering above their heads was gone, allowing them to stand up.
But the scene before them truly stunned everyone.
First, there was the imperial might, and then... the gauntlet shattered, and Old Demon Chu's physical body was also shattering.
"Resurrect."
Old Demon Chu roared.
That single 'word' had only shattered his physical body.
Without the covering of the power of rules, it was just an ordinary word.
His physical body oscillated back and forth between destruction and rebirth.
This repeated dozens of times.
Finally, the power of that word dissipated.
And in the distance, the gauntlet which the Mad Emperor had possessed, completely vanished.
A phantom soul shadow floated in the air, bewildered.
"This..."
The Mad Emperor was stunned.
He was not angry, nor was he frightened.
In his stunned gaze, a trace of ecstatic joy slowly emerged: "I... I'm out?"
He had already become a spirit within an artifact, destined to stay in the gauntlet for the rest of his life, unable to escape.
But who would have thought that a situation he thought was a sure death would turn into a blessing in disguise?
"Hahaha."
The Mad Emperor burst into laughter: "I'm out, I'm finally out, haha..."
Even though he had lost the power of the gauntlet and was left with only a wisp of the destructive origin within his soul, he was still incomparably excited.
He was out, he had survived.
"Hahaha."
How could he not be happy?
He was almost happy to the point of being foolish.
"Seal."
Old Demon Chu, being quick-witted, quickly re-established the seal.
The entire manor was immediately covered by the might of a half-emperor.
At the same time, he had taken the Mad Emperor, who had fallen from the Imperial Dao realm, and disappeared from everyone's sight.
Though this face was recognized by almost no one.
But what if...
Oh, no need for 'what if'.
Someone had already recognized him.
Xi Qiu, as if struck by lightning, froze in place.
As one of the earliest inhabitants of the Mad Realm, how could he not recognize the Mad Emperor?
Old Demon Chu's voice sounded in Xi Qiu's ear: "Don't say anything. Wait until the City Lord returns."
Xi Qiu finally came back to his senses, but the shock in his eyes had not dissipated for a long time.
The Mad Emperor, he had seen the Mad Emperor again.
That face, he would never forget.
...
Inside Old Demon Chu's room.
"Senior, please stop laughing."
Old Demon Chu's face was filled with curiosity: "What was that voice?"
Yes, what Old Demon Chu was most curious about was that voice.
A single word, "Scram," had rendered two half-emperors powerless to resist.
One's physical body exploded dozens of times before surviving.
The other's physical body had completely shattered; the gauntlet was the Mad Emperor's physical body, leaving only his soul.
When the word was mentioned, the Mad Emperor's excitement gradually subsided.
In his ethereal pupils, the appropriate emotion finally appeared.
Horror.
After a moment of contemplation, the Mad Emperor spoke: "I don't know where that voice came from, but I saw a scene just now."
'What scene?'
"A person, attacking something..."
"That's all?"
Old Demon Chu frowned: "Did you see clearly who that person was?"
The Mad Emperor recalled that figure, and his pupils suddenly contracted.
"Senior..."
"I only saw the back. That back strongly resembled City Lord Chen..."
Old Chu: "???"
So, it was the City Lord who 'cursed' out a "Scram."
And then made two half-emperors utterly unable to resist?
This point, the Mad Emperor had also considered: "I can't be sure, it just looked similar. But one thing I can confirm, the voice that kept echoing in the sky was produced by that back."
Old Demon Chu: "..."
Fine.
At least there was some gain.
For a moment, both of them fell into confusion.
Was that figure really the City Lord?
...
The view shifts back to the River of Rules.
"Rumble."
The Sword of the River continued to attack the stone wall.
This situation had been going on for nearly an hour.
From the beginning until now, Chen Fan had become smarter.
He had switched from attacking an entire wall to attacking a single brick.
Breaking the whole by attacking a part, taught by the junior high physics teacher.
That brick had been worn extremely thin, and it was faintly on the verge of shattering.
And Chen Fa was already panting heavily.
The River of Rules no longer had the strength to flow like a river, becoming sluggish.
All its power had been utilized by Chen Fan.
And the people connected to the River of Rules all felt a sense of weakness.
There was no other way, the consumption of the power of rules was too great.
"Final strike."
Chen Fan had never given up.
His offense had also never stopped.
This strike gathered a hundred streams of power.
It was the final sword.
Chen Fan was confident that this sword would definitely break the brick on the wall.
"Boom."
All the gathered streams converged into a single sword, and with a "bang," it struck the almost transparent brick.
Crack.
The sound was crisp.
Under the impact of this final sword, the brick finally showed a needle-sized gap.
"It's done."
Chen Fan's eyes lit up.
After working so hard, he had finally broken through.
However, the moment the gap appeared...
"Boom."
An indescribable power of the Great Dao surged into the River of Rules from the gap.
That power carried boundless terror.
"Body Dao."
From behind, Lu Feng trembled with excitement.
There was no mistake, the call just now was the Body Dao calling out to him.
"Hahaha."
Lu Feng directly jumped into the rules that rushed in from the gap.
That power caused the entire River of Rules to surge violently.
Chen Fan's physical body was also washed by this power of rules.
"Hiss."
His body instantly disappeared.
Washed into nothingness by the rules of the physical body.
In the rules of life, Chen Fan reappeared.
His eyes held an indescribable shock.
The power of rules that had merely leaked from a single gap was even more potent than the death energy that had surged in from the Emperor's corpse that day.
His gaze immediately turned golden, fixed on the gap in the stone wall.
The gap was slowly healing.
His gaze penetrated the gap, and faintly, he saw a dry riverbed.
"Hmm? A riverbed?"
How could there be a riverbed outside the end of the River of Rules?
Judging by its dryness, it was impossible to tell how many years it had been desiccated.