The milky white fluorescence was not intense, but it illuminated the entire mystical space.
Under the illumination of this Heavenly Dao's light, the stars in the sky seemed to have found their backbone, no longer scattering like startled birds devoured by the Abyss, but instead, they spontaneously gathered around Grandpa Tangerine, surrounding him with support.
At this moment, Grandpa Tangerine's fluffy face was filled with solemnity and dignity, radiating an aura as if he were the only supreme being between heaven and earth.
Behind him, Laws clustered like solemn warriors standing in formation, ready for battle!
Light and darkness, warmth and strangeness, silence and whispers!
Two colors divided the entire Demon Spirit Ancestral Land in two, stark and distinct, confronting each other without yielding.
Yue Bai and White Tiger, unable to stare at the darkness of the Abyss, could only look towards Grandpa Tangerine, both filled with surprise at how he had changed.
Especially White Tiger...
He had initially thought that the Heavenly Dao had taken up residence in Grandpa Tangerine's body; how else could he command millions of Laws? But Grandpa Tangerine's gaze was clear, not looking at all like someone possessed by the Heavenly Dao.
Moreover, that strange sense of déja vù in his heart became stronger and stronger, as if he had seen Grandpa Tangerine somewhere before.
A pair of crimson eyes opened from the darkness like awakening from a great dream, gazing deeply at the confronting Grandpa Tangerine.
This was the physical manifestation of the Abyss Will.
At this point, White Tiger and Yue Bai dared not glance over at the Abyss again, so naturally, they were unaware that the Abyss Will had materialized a pair of eyes. They only felt that the pressure emanating from the Abyss had grown somewhat stronger.
However, if they could see the eyes that the Abyss had materialized, they would realize that, other than the color being different from Grandpa Tangerine's, the features were almost identical, at least ninety-nine percent similar!
If the colors were the same, one could even say it was like looking in a mirror.
The Abyss seemed to be just staring at Grandpa Tangerine, but it was also constantly analyzing the situation, daring not to make any other moves.
When Grandpa Tangerine stepped into this space, the Abyss sensed something extraordinary about him. The part of itself that had descended through space didn't know why, but it was very concerned about that fluffy beast.
Now, this concern had been elevated infinitely—so high that it must be fully prepared for battle.
In its perspective, the being in front of it felt like the Heavenly Dao itself had descended. However, the situation was so strange that even it could not figure out exactly what this being, exuding the aura of the Heavenly Dao, was.
If it really were the descent of the Heavenly Dao itself, it would have to abandon its operation here and retreat first to maximize its benefits!
It had already taken the opportunity when the Heavenly Dao was unresponsive to devour numerous Laws born from the powerful of the Demon Clan, in no small amount, capable of weakening the strength of the Heavenly Dao.
But if this descended force were to be seized by the actual Heavenly Dao, it would be a substantial loss.
The operation had been speculated over countless times in its mind, but in none of those speculations did the figure of Grandpa Tangerine appear, let alone cause trouble.
If it were said that part of the Heavenly Dao had also descended and urgently attached to this demon beast, then the Abyss might have a chance to try and inflict greater damage on the Heavenly Dao.
The space suddenly fell into silence, as if time itself had frozen, everything stilled in this moment.
Although both Yue Bai and White Tiger were filled with countless questions, seeing the Abyss's momentum of devouring Laws stopped by Grandpa Tangerine, they subconsciously breathed a sigh of relief.
And since the Abyss had ceased devouring Laws for the time being, the bronze gate's Demon Clan patterns, supported by outside forces, stood up again, successfully resisting the spread of the gray traces, greatly slowing its progress.
"Truly my own flesh and blood."
The Grand Saint of Nine Spirits could finally breathe a sigh of relief, swiftly moving Azure Dragon and the others, who had been brought out from the Demon Spirit Ancestral Land, to a safe place.
The reason he let Grandpa Tangerine go in while he stayed outside was not for any special reason; it was simply his intuition, and he just blindly followed it.
Thankfully, the kid didn't disappoint him.
Just when everyone thought the situation had been contained, Grandpa Tangerine in the Demon Spirit Ancestral Land didn't think so; he just wanted to curse.
Despite appearing so majestic now, with millions of Laws following behind him, ready to unleash astonishing combat power to annihilate everything in front of him, in reality, he was nothing but an empty shell.
Reassuming control of the Heavenly Dao's authority wasn't so simple, especially now when there was already a Heavenly Dao.
Under the cover of the Heavenly Dao's light, Grandpa Tangerine had indeed become the Heavenly Dao once more, and even if another Heavenly Dao arrived, it couldn't be said that Grandpa Tangerine was an imposter.
But Grandpa Tangerine had handed over all the Heavenly Dao's authority when he was reborn, to the new Heavenly Dao. So now, he was just an empty vessel, merely a Cultivator of the Eighth Realm draped in the mantle of the Heavenly Dao.
As for the Laws gathered around him, they were not summoned by him actively; they were simply instinctively attracted by the light of the Heavenly Dao. If Grandpa Tangerine were at the Great Perfection of the Ninth Realm, perhaps he could have barely manipulated some Laws with the profoundness of the Heavenly Dao's light, to make himself look more convincing. But unfortunately, he was only of the Eighth Realm.