novelTele Chapter 588 Passive
Chapter 588 Passive
His fingertips hovered just inches away from the dark golden barrier, and star power, like extremely fine threads, peeked out from his fingertips, gently touching the edge of one of the cracks.
The moment it was touched, the entire barrier trembled violently.
That's a resonance at the level of laws.
Like an ancient bell that had been silent for millions of years being struck for the first time, the aftershocks spread in all directions along the patterns woven by the five laws, and even the gray mist that was about to dissipate below the cliff surged more violently in this tremor.
"Your touch caused quite a stir." Even without the power of laws, Wan Liuchun could feel it; she even felt that her bottleneck seemed to have loosened.
Xu Si withdrew his fingertip, his scarlet star-like eyes narrowing slightly.
"This barrier of laws was already on the verge of collapse. I simply released its stress in advance so that my absorption would be easier."
He's right.
After he touched it, the crack began to expand at a visible speed, from an inch long to a foot long, and then from a foot long to a foot long, like a piece of ice that had been cracked. The ends of the cracks kept branching out, making a fine, crisp sound like glass shattering.
A dark golden light shone through the cracks; it wasn't a warm, gentle light, but rather a blinding, scorching intensity on the verge of collapse.
"Are you sure you can handle these rules?" Wan Liuchun's voice carried a rare hint of admonition.
She could already feel the overwhelming pressure of that law descending; if it weren't for Xu Si, she might have perished in an instant.
She did not choose to hide in the dark building; she clearly felt that facing the pressure of these laws would have unexpected benefits for her.
Xu Si did not respond to the concerns he had raised about retaining Chun.
His entire attention was drawn to the crumbling barrier of laws.
The dark golden cracks continued to expand before his eyes, like a piece of glass that had been eroded by time for millions of years finally unable to bear its own weight and began to disintegrate from the inside.
The patterns of the five fundamental laws flashed wildly at the edge of the crack: the weight of the law of matter, the warmth of the law of life, the tranquility of the law of time, the vastness of the law of space, and the intensity of the law of energy.
Five distinct auras surged forth from the rift, weaving together in the void to form a dazzling torrent of dark gold.
"They're here."
Xu Si took a deep breath and stretched out both hands at the same time. Star power burst out from his fingertips like a spider web, meeting the torrent.
The collision happened in an instant.
Xu Si felt as if his little world had been hit head-on by a mountain falling from the sky, and his entire consciousness space was trembling violently.
The surging power of the laws was far purer, more condensed, and more violent than the fragments in the gray fog.
Unlike the fragments that meekly merged into the cracks, they were like five giant dragons that had broken free of their restraints, rampaging through his little world, causing the edges of the laws that had just been repaired to groan in despair once again.
"Hold on!" Wan Liuchun's voice boomed from the depths of his consciousness, filled with rare anxiety.
Only then did Xu Si realize that he had been having some wild ideas.
The laws governing the Middle World were simply beyond his control.
He originally intended to peel away the power of the laws one by one and then devour them, but these laws did not give him that opportunity at all.
They were like wild beasts escaping their cages, completely taking refuge in Xu Si's little world and integrating themselves into it, catching Xu Si off guard.
His consciousness was even teetering on the brink of collapse under the impact of these laws.
The first two infusions of the power of the laws made him think that acquiring the power of the laws required stealing, skimming, and digesting it little by little.
He never expected that the power of the laws would one day be so proactive.
He had gone from being proactive to being completely passive.
Moreover, it was extremely passive.
Xu Si's consciousness teetered on the brink of collapse under the impact of the torrent of laws, like a lone boat caught in a hurricane, which could be torn to shreds at any moment by the five raging dark golden dragons.
His inner world was also experiencing violent turmoil at this moment.
The cracks in the laws that had just been repaired reopened, or rather, were invaded, under the pure force of the laws.
The ring-shaped mounds dug by the nightmares collapsed, and the newly grown moss curled into withered yellow fragments in the energy storm. Even the dim, grayish-green planet itself trembled slightly, like a glass bead being repeatedly kneaded in a giant hand.
"Xu Si!" Wan Liuchun's voice seemed to be the last straw to save Xu Si.
However, separated by layers of booming laws, Xu Si could barely hear it clearly.
He wanted to respond, but his consciousness had been completely overwhelmed.
His consciousness was like being swallowed into a washing machine and spun around wildly.
Still washing while shaking.
He's starting to understand what it means to be a small horse pulling a big cart.
Five fundamental laws surged in simultaneously, each so pure as to be almost frenzied.
The laws of matter attempted to compress his small world into a solid iron ball the size of a fist;
At the same time, the laws of life are expanding wildly, trying to fill every inch of space with wildly growing tissues and veins.
The laws of time tear fragments from the planet's surface, each with a distinctly different flow rate;
The laws of space fold, twist, and collide those fragments;
The laws of energy, on the other hand, are like a red-hot knife, cutting ruthlessly through every crack.
This is not absorption; this is slow slicing.
A trace of scarlet liquid seeped from the corner of Xu Si's mouth. It wasn't blood, but the residue of star power that had been squeezed out after being overfilled in his body.
His star-like eyes flickered violently, and the law patterns deep within his pupils were flowing at an unprecedented speed, attempting to guide the surging power of law to its proper place.
But the torrent was too fierce, the channel too narrow, and every channel was operating beyond its capacity, emitting a fine, metallic wail.
"To hold onto spring..." he struggled to squeeze out the two words from the depths of his consciousness.
"help me……"
"Me?" For the first time, panic appeared in Wan Liuchun's voice.
"How can I help?"
She's just a level eight supernatural being, what help can she possibly offer?
She was as fragile as a piece of paper in the face of the power of laws.
"...Dragon...Soul..." Xu Si could only save himself.
He knew that trying to retain Chun wouldn't be of much help.
His only solution was to let the dragon soul temporarily act as the world's consciousness, so that he could use this brief respite to sort out the power of those laws.
Even if it's just to help him hold on for a moment, so that his consciousness isn't completely overwhelmed, that's enough.
"Dragon Soul?" Wan Liuchun naturally knew what Xu Si was talking about; it was the dragon soul that Wang Yanhua had imprisoned in the Black Tower when they helped her subdue the black dragon.
Without uttering a single word, she directly bound the dragon soul to Xu Si's small world with her silk threads.