Before the seven Law Realm experts prepared to leave, Ryven raised his hand to get their attention.
"I need your help with something," he said. "I want to test my combat abilities properly, but I can't do that here without causing massive damage. Could you help me access a suitable battleground?"
Elder Morrison nodded understanding. "You need access to the Higher Dimension Law Realm Battlefield. It's the only place where beings at our power level can fight without destroying everything around us."
"Law Realm cultivators can't battle within normal universes," Master Zhang explained. "Our casual attacks can shatter multiple galaxies, and our serious techniques can destroy entire small universes. If we try to fight here, the universe itself will forcefully expel us into the void - the empty space between universes."
"Many Law Realm experts become wandering cultivators because of this," added Ancestor Blackstone grimly. "Once expelled, they have no universe to return to and must spend eternity drifting through the void."
Ancestor Silverwind pulled out a crystal tablet covered in complex spatial formations. "This contains the higher dimension coordinates. You need to comprehend these patterns, then use your spatial abilities to open a rift leading there."
Ryven took the tablet and studied the intricate coordinate system. His enhanced comprehension and space law mastery allowed him to understand the patterns within seconds. The coordinate structure was incredibly complex - describing not just location but dimensional frequency, spatial density, and temporal alignment.
"Got it," he said, handing back the tablet. "Let me open the rift."
Raising his hand, Ryven channeled his space law mastery and began tearing open reality itself. The process should have taken Law Realm experts several minutes of careful preparation, but his understanding of spatial mechanics made it effortless.
A massive rift appeared in the air, revealing glimpses of an alien dimension beyond. The Higher Dimension Law Realm Battlefield looked like normal space, but the very fabric of reality was different. Space itself was thicker, denser, more resilient. The laws of physics operated on reinforced principles that could withstand universal-level destruction.
"Impressive," Elder Morrison said. "Most new Law Realm cultivators take weeks to master dimensional travel."
The eight of them stepped through the rift into the higher dimension. Ryven immediately felt the difference. Movement required more effort as the dense space resisted motion. His spiritual senses had to work harder to penetrate the reinforced reality. But most importantly, he could feel that destructive techniques would be greatly reduced in effectiveness here.
"This dimension exists specifically to contain Law Realm battles," Ancestor Redcloud explained. "The enhanced spatial density means our attacks won't accidentally destroy entire galaxy clusters. We can fight at full power without worrying about collateral damage."
They flew to an empty region of the battlefield, a void-like space that stretched for millions of light years in every direction. This was where the most dangerous battles took place, far from any dimensional structures that might be damaged.
"I'll start with one-on-one matches," Ryven said, summoning the Void Eclipse Sword from his dantian. The obsidian blade materialized with an aura of chaos that made space itself ripple around its edges. "Elder Morrison, would you mind being first?"
Elder Morrison drew his own weapon - a blazing red saber called the Solar Flare Blade that had been forged in the heart of a dying star. "I'll use my full power from the start. No point holding back against someone of your abilities."
The battle began with both fighters moving at incredible speeds. Elder Morrison's movement reached 90,000 times the speed of light as he attempted to circle around Ryven's position, his saber trailing lines of stellar fire through the dimensional space. But Ryven's enhanced reflexes and space law mastery allowed him to track and counter every approach.
Their first sword clash sent shockwaves across millions of light years. Ryven's Chaos Severance Slash - a Divine rank technique that combined his sword laws with chaos energy - met Morrison's Solar Extinction Strike. The collision created a temporary neutron star that pulsed with enough gravitational force to bend nearby dimensional barriers.
"Nine Heavens Opening - First Form: Heaven's Gate Splitter!" Ryven called out, his sword tracing patterns that seemed to cut through the concept of distance itself. The technique manifested as a crescent of pure chaos energy that existed in seven dimensions simultaneously.
Elder Morrison barely managed to parry with his Stellar Corona Defense, raising his saber to create a shield of compressed starfire. But the chaos energy simply rewrote the local laws of physics, allowing Ryven's attack to strike from angles that shouldn't have existed.
The impact drove Morrison backward across several million miles of battlefield, his Law Realm cultivation base straining to absorb the impossible energies. "That sword technique... it doesn't just cut through space, it cuts through the logic that defines how space should work!"
"My turn for offense," Ryven replied, launching into his Infinite Adaptation Sword Array - a Divine technique that created dozens of sword projections, each one adapting its properties in real-time to counter whatever defense Morrison might raise.
The sword projections moved at 200,000 times light speed, each one carrying enough cutting power to slice through galactic cores. Morrison's Solar Storm Barrier - a technique that surrounded him with miniature fusion reactions - was overwhelmed within seconds as each sword adapted to burn through his defenses with chaos-enhanced fire.
Their close combat was a deadly dance of blade work that spanned light years. Morrison's saber techniques were ancient and refined, each strike precise enough to split atoms while carrying the explosive force of supernovas. But Ryven's Primordial Sword Flow made his movements seem like natural law itself - every cut, thrust, and parry flowed with the authority of techniques that had emerged with creation itself.
The battle lasted only three minutes before Elder Morrison yielded, his saber arm trembling from the strain of blocking attacks that operated beyond normal sword logic.
Master Zhang stepped forward next, drawing twin curved blades that seemed to fold space around themselves. "The Void Cleaver twins," he announced. "Forged in the gap between dimensions, they can cut through spatial barriers themselves."
"Impressive weapons," Ryven acknowledged, settling into the ready stance of the Nine Heavens Sword Arts. "Let's see how they handle primordial techniques."
Zhang's opening move was Dimensional Scissor Strike - both blades moving in perfect coordination to literally cut reality in half around Ryven's position. But Ryven's Chaos Step allowed him to exist between the dimensional cuts, moving through folded space-time to appear directly behind Zhang.
His counter was Heaven's Opening - Second Form: Reality Severance, a technique that created a sword stroke existing in all possible dimensional planes simultaneously. Zhang spun his twin blades in a Spatial Weaving Defense, creating a web of dimensional barriers, but the chaos energy simply treated the barriers as suggestions rather than absolute obstacles.
The decisive moment came when Ryven unleashed Origin Reconstruction Blade - a Divine technique that didn't just cut through Zhang's defenses but rewrote them at the fundamental level, turning his spatial barriers into chaos energy that strengthened Ryven's next attack.
Zhang's defeat was elegant but decisive. "Eight hundred years of spatial sword mastery," he said with genuine admiration, "and you just showed me that I was still thinking too small."
The five sect ancestors proved more challenging, each bringing legendary weapons and ancient techniques.
Ancestor Blackstone wielded the Void Eater Glaive, a polearm that consumed light itself and left trails of absolute nothingness. His Oblivion Sweep technique created cuts that didn't just damage - they deleted whatever they touched from existence entirely.
But Ryven's Chaos Genesis Sword technique restored existence to areas that had been deleted, then filled them with chaos energy that turned Blackstone's own void against him. Their weapon clash was spectacular - glaive spinning in defensive patterns that ate reality while Ryven's sword rewrote reality faster than it could be consumed.