"Did you bring it? Let me have a look."
"Yes." Lin Zhiwei took out another item and placed it on the coffee table beside them.
Shen Yi looked at the transparent container Lin Zhiwei had set on the coffee table. Inside, a dark-gray crystal lay quietly in an inert gas, stardust seeming to swirl within it.
He reached out.
Lin Zhiwei obediently handed the specially made sealed container over.
Shen Yi took it but did not open it directly. With his perception, he could examine it clearly even through that layer of special glass.
His gaze fell on the Gray Mist Crystal, and his will seeped silently inside like the finest probe.
A moment later, Shen Yi's brows drew together slightly.
There was indeed a special rule energy contained within the crystal, and its nature differed from any rule power he had previously encountered in the Beyond the World.
More importantly, the rules inside were in a state of deathly stillness.
Compared to the active Rule Fragments he had sensed before in the Beyond the World, which possessed self-evolving and even invasive properties, the rules within this Gray Mist Crystal seemed to have been frozen and sealed away.
It had high-density energy in name only, yet lacked the ability rules should have possessed to interfere with and solidify the surrounding environment.
It was like a block of ice containing immense heat energy—the heat was locked inside, unable to radiate outward on its own and change the ambient temperature.
"Is this a self-protective form produced by the world's rules in response to erosion after the Black Fog appeared?"
Shen Yi pondered inwardly.
This form ensured that the energy would not leak out and cause uncontrollable effects, such as detonation or contamination, but it also made its method of use one-dimensional.
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