At the same time, an even more massive and irresistible torrent of laws—one of sinking, solidification, and return to dead silence—erupted.

It traced its source from the infinitely distant north, following the channel opened by that will, and crashed inward!

This was no longer a simple backlash from a law node, but a targeted erasure of laws descended from the entity behind the Enforcement Officer, across vast reaches of time and space, using the abyssal core as a coordinate!

The target: Bai Cheng and the variables she represented—those who sought to ignite a glimmer of light within the World-Purifying Tide.

The cabin began to rapidly petrify in silence; even space itself seemed about to solidify.

Bai Cheng felt her movements become sluggish and her thoughts grow viscous; even the flow of her Filament of Faith suffered terrible suppression.

Zi Yuan's purple electric field flickered violently, emitting an overburdened hum.

Life and death hung in a single instant.

In Bai Cheng's silver eyes, the surging grey torrent—representing absolute order returning to dead silence—was reflected.

Deep within her soul, the Stardust Imprint sent a bone-chilling coldness, but at the base of that chill, those thousands of threads of conviction, though trembling weakly, had not broken.

The gratitude of the North Reef Island survivors, the lingering hope in the eyes of the child on the Cuiluo Bay stone platform, and the prayers from even more islands that had not yet been completely extinguished... thread by thread, they converged.

It was cold, but not hopeless.

She suddenly released her full suppression of the World-Purifying Talisman Nail.

The talisman nail turned into a dark red stream of light, proactively meeting the descending grey torrent!

"With your order, I ignite my conviction."

Bai Cheng chanted softly. It was not a Secret Technique of the Gate, but the most primal resonance of conviction from the depths of her soul.

She poured the vast majority of her Filament of Faith, along with the island prayers carried within the Stardust Imprint, entirely into that World-Purifying Talisman Nail!

The talisman nail was originally a tool used by the World-Purifying Tide to fix space and execute annihilation; its core was cold order and the laws of purification.

But now, it was forcibly infused with the diametrically opposite power of "conviction," full of the prayers of living beings and their struggle for survival.

It was like throwing ice into a white-hot furnace, or pouring water into a pot of boiling oil.

The dark red talisman nail suddenly lit up with an unnatural, blazing white light within the grey torrent!

Inside, two completely opposite and conflicting laws collided, tore, and annihilated each other frantically!

This violent conflict formed a brief and extremely unstable law singularity, like detonating a miniature nova within the seemingly calm but actually violent grey torrent!

Boom—!!!

An indescribable, silent roar exploded on the level of laws. There was no physical shockwave,

But the entire shipwreck cabin, along with the surrounding corrupted seawater, was instantly swept away by a chaotic turbulence of energy!

The injection of the grey torrent was forcibly interfered with and blocked.

The patterns on the surface of the abyssal core cracked inch by inch, and the released sunken abyss transformation energy lost its unified direction, scattering wildly.

The petrification of the cabin was lifted, but it was replaced by even more dangerous spatial distortion and an energy storm!

Bai Cheng let out a muffled groan, blood overflowing from her nose and mouth. Her soul felt as if it had been struck by a heavy hammer, and her vision went black in waves.

Using the talisman nail as a medium, she had forcibly triggered a law conflict and bore the vast majority of the backlash.

The light of the Stardust Imprint dimmed to the extreme, as if it might go out at any moment.

The moment the energy storm hit, Zi Yuan disregarded her own depletion and fully deployed her Flowing Blade Intent. It transformed into a flexible purple electric barrier, shielding Bai Cheng behind her and enduring most of the chaotic energy impact.

Her face was as pale as paper, and the arm holding the blade trembled slightly; she had clearly reached her limit as well.

"Go!" Bai Cheng forced out her last bit of strength and grabbed Zi Yuan's arm.

The light of spatial leap lit up, but it appeared extremely unstable in the chaotic energy field, only managing to teleport the two of them just outside the shipwreck, into the seawater not far from the bay entrance.

Looking back, at the location of the shipwreck, the seawater was forming a slowly rotating, eerie vortex mixed with grey-white, dark green, and blazing white residual light. The aura of the abyssal core was rapidly dissipating and disintegrating.

The Corrupted Acid Tide within the range of Cuiluo Bay, having lost its source of support, began to thin and fade visibly to the naked eye; that viscous, gelatinous feeling was receding.

The sunken abyss transformation fluctuations in the direction of the island also stopped intensifying.

It was a success... but the price was heavy. 𝗳𝚛𝗲𝕖𝚠𝚎𝚋𝗻𝗼𝕧𝗲𝐥.𝚌𝚘𝐦

As the two surfaced, Blue Bird and the others had already rushed over anxiously.

Seeing their condition, Lu Duo said nothing; her Life Barrier immediately enveloped them, and gentle life energy poured in continuously, repairing their severely damaged bodies and souls.

Leaning on Lu Duo for support, Bai Cheng looked toward the stone platform of Cuiluo Bay.

The grey-white petrification process there had stopped, and even the edges began to show signs of extremely slow fading. The child in the center of the platform was unharmed and was being softly comforted by Yu Nian.

Another island had been pulled back from the brink of total sinking.

However, Bai Cheng's heart did not feel light.

She looked toward the north, where the light from the collision between the World-Purifying Tide and the Astral Sector Barriers grew increasingly blinding; the scale of the war was clearly escalating.

And deep within her soul, that cold will from above the Enforcement Officer, though temporarily interfered with and repelled, had left a clear mark like a deep scar.

The other party had officially placed them on the list of those who needed to be extinguished.

Further away, under the night sky of the Emerald Sea, many glimmers of distress calls were still going out one after another.

She wiped the blood from the corner of her mouth, her silver hair sticking wetly to her pale cheeks.

The Stardust Imprint sent a faint warmth—the feedback of conviction from the newly saved islanders of Cuiluo Bay and the survivors of North Reef Island, which had stabilized once more.

This warmth, though faint, was exceptionally clear.

"On to the next one." Her voice was hoarse, but exceptionally firm.

Zi Yuan silently adjusted her breathing, suppressing the surging blood within her body, and gripped her hilt tightly again.

Blue Bird's lightning flickered once more, and the gazes of Lu Duo and Yu Nian were equally resolute.

The train stood by in the distance, like a mobile, tiny lighthouse.

The storm continued, and the tide surged. The war of the giants ground across the sea, leaving behind utter devastation.

But in those neglected corners, a group of people still dragged their scarred bodies, facing the storm that constantly snuffed out lights, to ignite new glimmers time and time again.

Though the lamplight was faint, gathered together, it became a torch. The night was long, but those who walked forward did not stop their pace.