In a corner of the vast law ocean, a figure clad in black robes was travelling at high speed, completely unbothered by the chaotic current of laws flowing around it. Soon, he landed on a floating asteroid and started planting several flags in a formation. As the flags pierced the rock, they started glowing with bright blue lights. After some time, there were blue lightning currents around the flags which then started connecting to the other flags. In an instant, the formation was activated and a transparent blue dome covered the area. After this, he began to bring out more materials from his storage bag, carefully arranging another formation.
This cultivator was an elder in a major sect of the law ocean. He had been cultivating for many years and was already a path-master, having completed his law. But this was just his identity on the surface. He also carried a deeper identity, one that he had been keeping a secret from everyone. He was actually a clone of Truth-Seeker Divinity, a bigshot from the heavenly realm! Many millenniums ago, he had come to the law ocean and had secretly infiltrated the Holy Light sect. This was to spy on the super forces under the command of Treasure Emperor after he had been slain in the war of five emperors. Creating clones was expensive, even for divinities. Thus, the number of clones that could be maintained simultaneously was quite small. But, the benefits of cloning were very rich. Clones were very useful in spying and infiltration. It was very hard for others to find out the true identity of clones, making them incredibly useful for espionage. They were also beneficial in cultivation as well as gave an obvious increase in battle strength.
Truth-Seeker divinity was thinking deeply while arranging the formation.
Heaven Emperor woke up abruptly from his meditation. Then, he started giving out orders one after the other, deploying most of his subordinates. But why? This is completely different from his usual style. He is generally passive and loves to destroy all schemes and conspiracies with his unparalleled power. Except when he mobilizes for war, he doesn't assign his subordinates any tasks. This is the first time I have seen him like this. But it is not only him, many others have been behaving suspiciously for some reason. The Wisdom Emperor came out and declared that the temple will open sooner than scheduled, Antiquity Empress has also been making many moves in secret. The Devil Ancestor has suddenly gone all-in on the Might Secret Realm. It's as if all the True Gods decided to start moving all at once!
Truth Seeker divinity was an eight-star divinity and he trained in the laws from the information branch. Based on his cultivation, he knew that a major event had happened in the universe, making all the True-Gods suddenly active. If he could grasp that information, he might be able to find a new direction for his cultivation and progress to the nine-star stage. But Heaven Emperor did not say anything when he tried to ask him. Dejectedly, he could only take up the mission and do as he was commanded.
Truth Seeker divinity was feeling pissed inside. This clone had been devoted to the task of infiltration and espionage for a long time, making it useless for his cultivation. He had been planning of making this clone breakthrough into the divinity realm during the upcoming selection battles, obtaining a valuable divinity stage clone. But now, he had to find the entrance of the Might secret realm and mark it for others. Given how ferocious the devils had been till this point, it was certain that this clone would be destroyed in the process. Sighing about his losses, he completed the formation and began the ritual. As he chanted the incantations, the chaotic ocean around him suddenly calmed down. His words started creating ripples that travelled outwards before dissipating. But while the ripples had disappeared from the naked eye, his main body was able to easily feel the tug from the universal laws. Using this force, he anchored the formation to his divine power. Soon, the formation turned transparent and started shrinking. The clone of Truth Seeker standing in the middle of the formation started absorbing the formation inside his own body. This was an advanced method of turning his clone into an anchor that he could use to perform divine descent. As long as the anchor remained, he could descend in his clone, using his powers from his main body.
Once he had completed the ritual, he used an investigative spell. The ocean around him churned and twisted along with subtle fluctuations in space itself! Soon, information regarding the Might secret realm's entrance appeared in his mind. While he did not have accurate coordinates of the entrance, he managed to gauge the approximate direction and distance. Followed by that, he started travelling across the law ocean while bending spatial laws. His speed directly increased to a terrifying level as he covered millions of kilometres in a few seconds! Appearing in a desolate area, he again used his investigative spell. This time, he managed to gain a lot of information about the entrance.
"So the entrance is actually a spatial tunnel to the secret realm, huh? Makes sense, but given how the actual distance between the two regions should be immeasurable, how did this spatial tunnel come to be? Is this a natural phenomenon?", he monologued. The method also allowed him to vaguely see through the defences deployed by the devils at the gate. He could feel the presence of another divinity guarding the gate.
"This apostle state is temporary and will not last for a long time. I should, first of all, make preparations." Saying so, he brought out a small device. The device was only palm-sized and covered with many runes. While it did not look special to the naked eye, Truth Seeker could feel terrifying energy circulating in the runes, sending chill directly to his soul. Taking a deep breath, he started chanting a long incantation. This incantation was not pronounced in the regular language of the heavenly realm but was the language of universal laws. Only divinities could speak or understand this language by using their own laws, hence it was also called the divine language. The sheer amount of information present in each syllable was enough to overload the souls of ordinary mortals. After some time, the runes in the device started glowing one by one, until the entire device became a ball of golden light. Looking at the small sun held in his hand, Truth Seeker again shivered before keeping it inside his spatial dimension.
If this blew up, this entire dominion will be vapourised! Even the surrounding few dominions will be destroyed!
Followed by that, he brought out several treasures one after the other. He brought out and wore an ancient-looking armour. He also wore two heavy gauntlets made up of divine metal. 3 different flying swords started circling him. A necklace carrying a prehistoric gem was donned on his neck. Arming himself to teeth, he vanished from the place. In just a second, he could already see the entrance to the spatial tunnel. His soul power burst forth as time around him slowed down. His thinking speed rapidly climbed to millions of thoughts under a second. He could see a sword, swinging towards him with incredible ferocity while shining with golden light. The laws around the sword did not have the time to bend as they were cut apart! He instantly called forth one of his flying swords to block the attack while sending the other two to attack the sword wielder, a hazy figure with 5 stars circling around its head.
As the swords clashed, and a powerful burst of light and force emerged. Blue and gold sword lights intertwined together as a spherical shockwave containing rampant sword qi formed. But before the ball of sword qi could expand, it was cut apart by the golden sword that moved unhindered after clashing with the blue sword. The golden sword directly struck the neck of Truth Seeker as if trying to behead him in one attack. Seeing this, the divine power in his body exploded and poured into the ancient armour. Like the awakening of a prehistoric beast, the armour came to life and suddenly shifted to protect Truth Seeker's neck. The clash did not create any disturbance, contrary to expectations. The armour seemed to have completely swallowed the golden sword light. But still, the sheer force of the hit caused his trajectory to change.
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Still, he won't be able to dodge the other 2 swords!
But, before the Truth Seeker could smile in victory, he saw the other 2 swords being stopped by 2 bone fragments that came out of nowhere. Then, he knew that he was facing more than one divinity. Realizing this, he slowed down his thoughts to conserve his soul power. Before he knew, he was thrown for tens of thousands of kilometres, before coming to a stop. At this stage, the shockwave formed through rampant sword lights spread across the law ocean. Many law strands were cut apart, turning these law strings into incomplete law fragments. Most of these law fragments were unstable and started to crumble further, causing secondary explosions and shockwaves. The scene looked as if someone had taken a large portion of the world and run it through a grinder! The scale of destruction was fairly contained due to the intervention of some mysterious force, but the sheer power of the clash truly caused the entire region to turn into dust including the encampment laid out by the devil soldiers. More than 10 million lesser devils and devil puppets had died as collateral damage! The vast structures build by the devil army over the course of centuries were demolished as well. All this had happened in a fraction of a second! In less than the blink of an eye, everything was gone. This was destruction at the scale of worlds and such power could have easily broken a primary plane. This was the terror of divinities!
By the time Truth Seeker landed on his feet, his investigative magic had already compiled a lot of information.
The five-star divinity who attacked me should be the Sword Devil divinity. He is a sword cultivator and is pretty famous. He stands among the sword path elites in the younger generation divinities. Given his combat power, he would have been a great threat if not for this ancient armour. As for the bone fragments that came out to protect him, that's naturally the doing of Bone Devil Divinity. It should be at the four-star stage, but I can't be certain. It seems that they have prepared for my arrival. The previous information probe only told me about the presence of one divinity, so it means that Bone Devil had hidden itself using some means. How troublesome!
At this time, Sword Devil had launched another attack. Tens of thousands of sword lights had aligned together to form a sword dragon that travelled at incredible speed towards Truth Seeker. The Truth Seeker snorted before charging headfirst against the sword dragon!
The battle between the two divinities continued for some time. Sword lights destroyed the structure of the law ocean while the power of clash shook the entrance of the secret realm many times. The battle was intense and both the divinities were evenly matched. Bone Devil divinity stood guarding the entrance to the secret realm while providing support to Sword Devil divinity. During the battle, the two divinities did not speak at all. But suddenly, both of them stopped and stood some distance from each other.
"Truth Seeker, you should give up. We already know that you are targeting the secret realm entrance. Bone Devil will make sure that he will be protecting the entrance with everything it has. We won't allow you to reach the entrance. With both of us present, you won't get a chance. Besides, you are here only through a clone. Even though the resonance between this clone and your main body allows you to use a majority of your strength in this form, it will not last for a very long time. There is no reason to continue.", said Sword Devil with a serious expression.
Hearing this, Truth Seeker smiled slightly before saying, "Hmm, you are indeed right that I don't have a lot of time. But you guys are the same, no? The devil ancestor had demarcated his territory here temporarily. If it was still connected to him, it would have completely suppressed me from using my powers. But it seems that the territory is no longer connected to him. Looks like he is facing some issue of much higher importance. While the territory has suppressed the effect of our battle till now while boosting both of you almost to the six-star level, our battle has already created cracks in the suppression field, and as long as I continue for a while, the entire territory will come down, exposing this entrance to the forces in the law ocean. Even though the entrance is always moving, the local forces will not let it slip from their hands."
This caused the Sword Devil's expression to become sombre while Bone Devil's whiskers also trembled. At this stage, both of them actively joined the battle, trying to dissipate Truth Seeker's clone as fast as possible! As a result, Truth Seeker's situation suddenly became precarious. He was constantly tackling powerful sword attacks from Sword Devil divinity while Bone Devil's large claws would attack him from unseen angles. The two divinities together were much stronger as their coordination was very high. As a result, Truth Seeker divinity was badly beaten. Even with the protection of ancient armour, he still had several deep injuries on him. His soul had also dimmed a lot. It seemed as if he was going to die here without being able to complete his mission. Seeing their plan working, both Sword Devil and Bone Devil became even more excited and attacked even more vigorously. Suddenly, Truth Seeker did not manage to stop the attacks from the two divinities and was sent flying! At the same time, a cloud of blood and soul mist had seeped out from his body, indicating that he was severely injured. Both devil divinities' eyes lit up as they started preparing their most powerful divine arts to finish the battle. But contrary to their expectations, Truth Seeker used the special ability of his armour to release a powerful impact using the energy collected by it, accelerating further! And, he was going towards the entrance!
Both the Sword Devil and Bone Devil suddenly jolted! They had been led into a trap!
"Don't even think about it!", Sword Devil shouted as he gave chase. The Bone Devil also roared and chased after him. Alas! the Truth Seeker had a headstart and the momentum of their previous attacks. He reached the entrance almost instantly! He then suddenly took out a ball of glowing golden light and threw it into the secret realm entrance. In the brief moment that the ball of light had been under the sight of the two devil divinities, both of them had felt a chill in their spines! They could feel death from that ball of light! Unhesitantly, they both turned and ran away from the entrance! In the next second, terrifying power fluctuations emerged from the entrance. The world changed colours and both divinities immediately used their life saving divine arts. A grand golden beam shot out from the entrance and directly smashed into the territory once created by the devil ancestor. The territory shattered instantly! The golden beam then split into many different beams and moved towards several stars in the distance. At the same time, the entrance exploded and had turned into a wide channel. If the earlier entrance was the size of a small city, the new entrance was the size of an entire star!
The explosion and dissipation of the territory raised a tsunami in the law ocean, one that was felt across the entire dominion! Huge and powerful waves of laws churned as they hit across the myriad planes. Many of the tertiary planes in the region crumbled directly, becoming a part of the law ocean. Many different civilizations were destroyed, several worlds collapsed. The secondary planes were much more stable, so only some unlucky ones close to the entrance were destroyed. Primary planes managed to stay intact. This was not to say that there was no damage done to them. A catastrophe of such proportions was enough to wipe out more than 99% of all life present in the primary planes that bore the brunt of the waves. This single battle caused countless lifeforms to perish! Aterna among other planes was much luckier. Even though the plane was close to the epicentre, there was no way that the five super forces stationed there would allow the plane to come to harm. With Blue Wind divinity taking charge of the massive formation around the plane, the mortals did not even notice anything. Only cultivators who had condensed their laws could feel the trembling in the law ocean to some extent. Only Michael, Mubal and Gareen could feel the scale of the disturbance outside, causing all three of them to pale in fright.
The golden lights all moved unhindered across the Tsunami and reached the several planes in the vicinity of the entrance, with Aterna being one of them. But these golden lights, which contained enough power to kill divinities, did not unleash destruction on these planes. Rather, the golden beam stagnated and solidified, forming roads connecting these planes to the entrance.
The information about the battle was soon released in the circles of cultivators, some truths were mixed with falsehoods, making the entire event the most discussed topic among cultivators. But most importantly, the expedition plans that were on hold for a long time were rapidly put into motion and a large scale expedition to a new world began.