With every step she took, the aura on her body climbed a notch.

With the first step, the five clusters of Starfire returned to their positions, transforming into five soaring pillars of light behind her.

With the second step, the emperors imprint fully manifested. Dark-gold patterns spread across her body like living things, forming a set of simple yet majestic dark-gold battle armor on her skin.

With the third step, the transparent Sword of Conviction appeared in her hand. But now, the blade was no longer transparent.

Instead, it had turned into a dark gold flowing with phantoms of the starry river. At the edge of the blade, the five-colored halos had completely fused, turning into a streak of pure 'nothingness' that seemed capable of severing the very laws of reality.

When she fully stepped into the void at the center of the battlefield, the laws of gravity throughout the entire Tianxuan Reef region fell into disorder.

Some small warships drifted uncontrollably toward her position, only to be torn to shreds by an invisible force field.

"Fire Thief, you have finally come."

At the center of the Enforcement Officer camp, atop the largest World-Purifying Mothership, a grand, overlapping voice rang out, sounding as if ten million souls were whispering simultaneously.

Three dark-red figures, more solid and terrifying than the Purifiers of the Deep Sea Forbidden Zone, slowly rose from the depths of the mothership.

They were no longer humanoid, but had transformed into three shifting aggregates of dark-red laws.

One was like a spinning vortex of despair, one like a gaping maw of greed, and one like spreading, festering roots of corruption.

These were the true high-ranking leaders of the Enforcement Officers in the Emerald Sea—the 'Three Cardinals of World Purification'.

"Hand over your Starfire and seal, and voluntarily integrate into the rebirth process of the seed of world purification. Your companions and those islands not yet corroded can retain a minimum level of consciousness and become basic units under the new order."

The vortex of despair whispered temptingly.

"Or, be dismantled by our own hands. Every bit of your power will become nourishment for the new world." The maw of greed made a swallowing sound.

"Choose, Corrector. This is your final... mercy." The roots of corruption slowly extended.

Meanwhile, from the direction of the Star Track Battle Group, the Lion Star Guard stepped out of the flagship, his spear pointed at Bai Cheng.

"As a member of the Star Track, how can the Emperor's authority be hoarded for yourself?

Hand over the seal and the law fragments. The Star Lord may grant you the rank of Star Guard to fight for the battle group across the sea of stars. This is a higher glory than rotting away in this stagnant pool of the Emerald Sea."

Pressure came from three sides.

Each side represented a power sufficient to crush an ordinary King-class, and each side had locked down all her possible paths of retreat.

Among the Freedom Alliance on Tianxuan Reef, countless warriors gripped their weapons, eyes burning with fury and despair.

They wanted to rush forward, to stand side-by-side with that figure facing everything alone, but the suppression of the Star Lord's authority emanating from the Star-Corpse Reef left them unable to move.

This was Elder Mo Xuan's final protection, and also his final helplessness.

Bai Cheng's gaze swept across the oppression of the three parties, across the distant glimmers that were still struggling in the darkness but had never been extinguished, and across the thirty-six Starfire Seeds quietly sprouting in the depths of her soul.

She suddenly smiled.

The smile was faint, yet it caused an inexplicable tremor in the hearts of all who saw it.

"You want my Starfire? You want my seal? You want my laws?"

Her voice was light, yet it spread clearly across the entire battlefield, even penetrating space to reach every corner of the Emerald Sea.

"Then come and take them—"

She raised the dark-gold longsword high in her hand, the tip pointing toward the void.

"But I must remind you of one thing."

On the blade's edge, that streak of pure 'nothingness' suddenly expanded, turning into an invisible ripple that instantly swept across the entire Tianxuan Reef area!

Wherever the ripple passed, all energy systems in operation—be it warship engines, shield generators, or the power circulation within the bodies of the powerful—came to a momentary standstill!

"What?!" The Three Cardinals of World Purification were simultaneously shocked and enraged.

"Law interference?! How could she..." The Lion Star Guard's expression changed.

But what horrified them even more was yet to come.

The five pillars of light behind Bai Cheng suddenly merged, transforming into a golden pillar of light that pierced through heaven and earth. At the top of the pillar, a thousand-foot-tall, flickering phantom of the gate of gui xu slowly emerged!

Although it was only a phantom, the aura of the Gui Xu Source emanating from that gate—which felt as if it could restart all things—made the souls of every existence above King-class tremble!

"The path I have walked, the convictions I carry, the suffering I have witnessed, the hope I protect—"

Bai Cheng's ➤ NоvеⅠight ➤ (Read more on our source) voice suddenly rose, like a proclamation, like an oath:

"These have long since ceased to be my 'power'."

"These are me!" 𝚏𝗿𝗲𝐞𝚠𝕖𝐛𝗻𝗼𝐯𝕖𝚕.𝚌𝗼𝗺

"I am the Starfire! I am the seal! I am the very laws of the Emerald Sea being reforged!"

"What you want to take away—"

The phantom of the gate of gui xu suddenly opened a crack!

Indescribable Gui Xu Source energy gushed out like a bursting river of stars. Yet, it did not attack any of the parties; instead—

It all poured into the Star-Corpse Reef beneath her feet!

"Then first ask this sea, ask the billions of living beings, ask... this final Star Lord authority inherited from the Tianxuan Star Lord!"

The entire Tianxuan Reef exploded.

No, it wasn't an explosion.

It was... an awakening.

The ancient star scripts on the surface of the pale star-corpses burned simultaneously, turning into billions of brilliant starlight chains that instantly entangled all warships and powerful individuals belonging to the Enforcement Officers and the Star Track Battle Group on the battlefield!

Star Lord Authority: Tianxuan's Legacy—

"Those who trespass upon the Emerald Sea shall have the star-corpses as their prison, eternally suppressed within Gui Xu!"

On the command platform, Elder Mo Xuan showed a final smile of liberation.

"Tianxuan Star Lord... Your legacy... has finally found... its successor..."

His body turned into flecks of starlight, merging into the Star-Corpse Reef.

And on the battlefield, the true chaos and slaughter—

Had only just begun.

The star-corpses as the prison, Gui Xu as the suppression.

Tianxuan Reef had awakened; the entire Star-Corpse Reef had come to life.

Billions of starlight chains drilled out of every piece of star-corpse like living snakes, ignoring space and distance to accurately entangle the warships and experts of the Enforcement Officers and Star Track Battle Group.

It was no longer simple binding, but the law-based suppression of a Star Lord's authority.

Inside every chain flowed fragments of the Gui Xu authority sealed by the ancient Tianxuan Star Lord before his fall—an ultimate suppression capable of freezing even the souls of King-class beings!

"Star Lord authority?! How could she awaken the Tianxuan Inscription!"

The Cardinal of World Purification in the form of a greedy maw let out a terrified roar, attempting to transform into a flow of invisible greed-based laws to break free from the chains.

But the moment the starlight chains touched its main body, they suddenly became transparent, revealing countless tiny Gui Xu runes within that looked like the initial state of the Big Bang.

Those runes merely trembled slightly, and large holes appeared on the surface of the greedy maw.

It wasn't being destroyed; its very foundation of existence was being erased at the level of laws!

"This is... the Void-making authority of the Gui Xu Source!"