The Mutual Compromise of Laws

Fang Zheng calculated it over and over in his mind, confirming it several times. After ensuring he hadn't made any mistakes, he still felt a headache coming on.

"11 billion times the speed of light..."

"What kind of ridiculously extreme Xianxia World is this?"

Fang Zheng muttered irritably, "If this White Tiger and Vermilion Bird sealed me, then by normal logic, a normal human wouldn't choose to specifically trap a dust mite inside a grain of sand. They'd at least use a small box that's convenient for them to handle."

"So... the thickness of the material currently sealing me, even with the most optimistic estimate, must be at least several hundred kilometers thick. If the situation is bad, it could even reach millions or tens of millions of kilometers."

"And if this formation can also draw upon the power of heaven and earth, like in Xianxia novels..."

"In fantasy Xianxia novels, no formation is ever smaller than the person setting it up. A cultivator of normal human size would set up a formation that occupies at least a few hundred meters in radius, right?"

"If that's the case... in the absolute worst-case scenario, the thickness of the material sealing me will reach several light-years, or even tens of light-years!"

"Using Spectator Mode and running non-stop through the void, it would take hundreds of years to cover even 1% of the distance!"

"So..."

Fang Zheng cursed furiously. "If this is a Xianxia novel, which damn author filled in these numbers with their feet? Were their math and physics teachers beaten to death by the gym teacher who rushed out of the infirmary?"

"Also, it's already reached a full 11 billion times the speed of light, almost to this absurd degree. Why can I still see them attacking me? Is it light-speed jumping? Or wormholes? Spacetime curvature?"

"Shouldn't I be unable to see anything at all! Even light should take hundreds of years to reach me!"

After cursing a few times, Fang Zheng took a deep breath in his mind. "Calm down! Calm down!"

"I'm already in a Xianxia World. The propagation of light here might not necessarily follow the speed of light laws I know."

A few minutes later, the brightness of the surrounding glowing golden-red crystals dimmed to its limit, transitioning from luminous translucent crystals to pitch black, leaving Fang Zheng sealed tightly in darkness.

He calmly took a Night Vision Potion from his inventory and chugged it down. The darkness instantly brightened.

In the game MC, drinking a Night Vision Potion allows one to see in the dark.

Just as when buried by sand, drinking a Night Vision Potion would allow him to see the color and pixelated outline of the sand. At this moment, Fang Zheng could clearly see the metal-like substances that were trapping him.

These substances were primarily golden-red, filled with countless abstract runes inside and out, with numerous abstract symbols resembling birds and beasts writhing.

Fang Zheng observed that the rune-formed chains were like wildly rioting pythons, converging and entangling towards the two blocks he occupied, with similar runes overlapping and merging, becoming increasingly solid.

"The strength seems to have increased again," Fang Zheng muttered to himself.

"If we refer to Xianxia novels, generally, when a demon is first sealed, the seal is unstable and it's easiest to break free. As time passes, the seal's strength gradually reaches its peak, and then slowly wanes due to insufficient energy supply."

"But that doesn't seem to matter to me. Regardless of the energy strength, it's useless against my blocky, pixelated body."

"Apart from fall damage, a block person's body doesn't seem to have the concept of impact inertia."

"Even if I'm just buried by sand blocks or surrounded by leaf blocks, I have to break them one by one to get out, not just smash through them with brute force."

Fang Zheng pondered, "In the game world of MC, apart from the attacks of a few monsters like Creepers, Ghasts, Withers, and Ender Dragons, most blocks cannot be destroyed under normal circumstances."

"Even a wall made of just a few dirt blocks, as long as it's not attacked by monsters like Creepers, can completely trap most monsters."

"Even if the code is directly modified to increase a zombie's attack power to thousands or tens of thousands, allowing them to instantly deplete a player's health in Survival Mode and kill an Ender Dragon or a Wither in one hit, even with astronomical destructive power, they still cannot damage blocks."

"Very few blocks have durability settings. Only architectural components like doors have durability and can be broken by zombie attacks."

"Even players, in Survival Mode, if they stop even for a moment while mining a block with a pickaxe without continuously hitting it until it breaks, they won't cause any damage to it."

"The white Hell Gate that brought me to this world has had its Obsidian frame destroyed by previous attacks."

"This means that although my Creative Mode body is currently unharmed, other MC blocks can be destroyed by attacks from non-player creatures in this world."

"What is the reason for this difference? If we refer to fantasy novels, could it be the result of a conflict and compromise between the laws of two realms?"

After some thought, Fang Zheng decided to experiment. He would try to fill the block gaps he had chipped out with MC blocks to see if he could resist the healing of these substances.

With a "thud," he chipped out another golden-red block of material. Before the viscous runes could surge out and heal the gap, he quickly inserted an Oak Block.

The Oak Block from his Creative Mode inventory fit perfectly into the gap.

However, in the next frame, with a light "hiss," the Oak Block ignited with pixelated fire effects, and then vanished into thin air in the following frame.

Fang Zheng carefully observed this scene, pondering what it meant. "Even an Oak Block, which is relatively easy to break in MC, lasted for one frame?"

In the game, punching trees is one of the first things most new players do.

The difficulty of breaking and collecting various blocks in the game varies.

Wood is one of the essential raw materials for crafting tools. It can be obtained by punching it with bare hands or collected with axes of different materials.

However, wooden blocks can also be ignited by Flint and Steel, lava, or flaming arrows from skeletons. After burning for a period, they are destroyed. But unlike breaking, burning does not drop anything; they simply vanish into thin air.

Fang Zheng knew that if his calculations were correct, it meant that the two divine beasts attacking him, these terrifying divine beasts whose mere size required astronomical units to describe, their attack power and defense were absolutely beyond his imagination.

"11 billion times the speed of light, the size of a Supergiant Star like Betelgeuse..."

"Supernova explosions, or even black hole jets, probably wouldn't even tickle them."

"Even with the most conservative estimate, judging by their exaggerated speed and size, this White Tiger could destroy all celestial bodies in a galaxy in minutes."

However, even so, the attacks from these astronomical-sized monsters did not achieve the absolute crushing effect of a higher realm over a lower realm, as seen in Xianxia novels, against Oak Blocks that could be easily broken by hand in Survival Mode.