Duran looked down at the corpse before him, a savage smile spreading across his face.

In his eyes, promises meant nothing.

Strength was the only true authority.

After obtaining the Plane Origin, he did not linger. He simply drew the same blade he had used moments earlier.

Then he swung.

Rumble!

The heavens and earth were forcibly split apart, leaving behind an enormous rift.

Duran’s figure flashed as he charged through the opening.

In the next instant, he disappeared from the plane and returned to the main universe.

...

Meanwhile, within Plane No. 66,666 of the Celestia Universe—

Countless High God-level participants stood frozen in place, completely incapable of moving.

They had been immobilized in all kinds of positions.

Some still maintained the posture of charging forward.

Others had raised their hands and were preparing to release skills.

Yet every one of them was now suspended motionlessly in midair.

They resembled wooden stakes nailed firmly into the ground—or wax statues frozen solid.

Above the head of every powerhouse floated a die roughly the size of a watermelon.

Those dice were as black as ink and radiated a gloomy, ominous aura.

They rotated continuously above the participants’ heads.

There was only one exception.

The die floating above Morado was pure, flawless white.

It, too, slowly revolved in the air.

Every High God-level participant throughout the entire plane had been immobilized by Morado.

The methods of this supreme powerhouse from Evernight Palace were profoundly mysterious.

They did not resemble any orthodox path of cultivation.

None of the trapped participants could even determine what kind of law he had used.

At that moment, cold sweat continuously seeped from the foreheads of the immobilized High Gods and ran down their cheeks.

Their hearts were already filled with anxiety and dread.

"Damn it!"

"Morado of Evernight Palace possesses methods that are far too bizarre!"

"He’s forcing us to compete against him by rolling dice!"

"If his number is higher than everyone else’s, all of us will die. Even our divine souls will be completely erased!"

"But if his number is lower, we will lose everything except our lives!"

"All the wealth and treasures we accumulated over countless years will be taken from us!"

"If the numbers are tied, we’ll be forced to serve him for eighty thousand years!"

"Eighty thousand years!"

"No matter what result appears, we suffer an unimaginable loss!"

"There’s no path to survival at all!"

The High Gods were both terrified and furious.

Their anxiety had nearly driven them insane.

Yet no matter how desperately they struggled, their bodies refused to move.

They could not even lift a single finger.

At that critical moment—

The dice rotating above their heads suddenly began to slow.

Their spinning gradually came to a stop, and the final numbers were about to be revealed.

A moment earlier, Morado had already sensed that the dice were about to settle.

A brilliant light erupted from his eyes.

"Law of Destiny!"

He shouted in a low voice.

Terrifying law power surged out alongside his words like a river breaking through a dam.

It poured into the countless dice floating throughout the sky.

In the next instant, every black die abruptly froze in midair.

The number revealed on top of each one was unmistakably—

One.

At the same time, the pure white die above Morado slowly stopped spinning.

The number on its upper face was—

Six.

The outcome had been decided.

Morado’s roll was far higher than everyone else’s.

Other than Morado himself, every powerhouse in the plane was condemned to death.

In an instant, the black dice above the participants’ heads released layers of dark light.

The shadows moved like living creatures, burrowing directly into the bodies below.

Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!

The bodies of countless High Gods trembled simultaneously.

Then they exploded.

Every last one of them died on the spot.

Their divine souls did not even have time to release a final scream before they were completely swallowed by the black light.

At the same time, the pure white die above Morado erupted with dazzling radiance.

It shone like a miniature sun.

Streams of incomparably pure Law Origin poured out of the die like a surging tide and flooded into Morado’s body.

His comprehension of the laws continuously increased.

Within only a brief period, his law comprehension progress rose by a tremendous amount.

Morado was now the only participant left within the entire plane.

Everyone else had become nourishment for his growth.

At that moment, an agile figure suddenly appeared.

It leaped out from an unknown location with astonishing dexterity, moving at a speed no slower than that of a High God.

It was Kip, the Skittershade who accompanied Morado.

The moment Morado saw the Skittershade, the corners of his lips curved into a smile.

Kip was holding a Plane Origin that radiated a soft glow.

With a single leap, the Skittershade landed steadily upon Morado’s shoulder.

"Master, we can leave now," Kip said.

Morado had no intention of remaining in this place for even another second.

In his opinion, spending any more time here would be meaningless.

He struck out with his palm.

The world barrier was effortlessly shattered.

Morado’s figure flashed and disappeared, carrying the Skittershade with him as he left the now-empty plane and returned to the main universe.

At that moment, similar scenes were unfolding throughout countless planes of the Celestia Universe.

Participants obtained Plane Origins one after another and broke out of their respective planes.

Many powerhouses of Evernight Palace who stood on equal footing with Morado had also secured their Plane Origins and successfully escaped.

Morris, one of the strongest prodigies of the Demon King Council, relied upon the Extreme Dao Law to force his way through the combined assault of more than a hundred High Gods.

He seized a Plane Origin and successfully broke out.

Kelvin and Soren, two supreme powerhouses of Evernight Palace, carried out massacres within their respective planes.

Both successfully seized Plane Origins and escaped shortly after one another.

Within the Shadow Divine Court, Gudek, a supreme powerhouse whose reputation rivaled Cedric’s, swept through his entire plane with overwhelmingly superior strength.

After obtaining the Plane Origin, he broke through the world barrier and departed.

Within the Tower of Myriad Treasures, Corwin, whose strength was comparable to Duran’s, slaughtered his way through every opponent and acquired the Plane Origin that served as his qualification for the elimination round.

Shirok and Oscar, two supreme powerhouses of Eternal Summit, also seized Plane Origins from their respective planes and successfully escaped.

On the Skyvault Consortium’s side, Aldric and Kaine obtained their Plane Origins without suffering any major danger.

However, Edmund’s luck was exceptionally poor.

During the struggle for a Plane Origin, he encountered Soren of Evernight Palace head-on.

After a desperate battle, Edmund was ultimately defeated.

He died on the spot.