Where Jiang Shu stood, the fragments of space seemed to answer his call. They hovered around him, rippling in waves and keeping those particles from probing him.
At that moment, Zhan Feng and his younger sister, Zhan Yun, who had been standing tall with their chests out, both let out muffled groans.
From their wounds crawled countless tiny, hair-thin bugs. They began devouring the flesh and the source of the laws within their bodies.
"She still had another trick up her sleeve!"
Only then did they realize that the seemingly random wounds had in fact been data traps carefully laid by the Mechanical Mother, waiting for the right moment to erupt and take their lives.
Zhan Feng's voice still echoed through the cracks in space when the Mechanical Mother's attack arrived.
The silver-white mechanical insects were not physical creatures. They were manifestations of laws, formed from pure energy.
Each insect's wings were etched with fine runes. As they beat, they let out a piercing shriek, like ten thousand blades scraping against glass.
"Look out!"
Zhan Yun raised her battle axe to block. A crimson-gold curtain of light burst from its face.
The insects slammed into the barrier, then opened their saw-toothed mouths like living things and began furiously gnawing at the light of her axe.
Gray, hazy Dao patterns swirled in Jiang Shu's eyes. He saw clearly that these insects were devouring Zhan Yun's axe intent!
The Mechanical Mother could actually convert her opponent's power of law into energy of her own. It was extremely similar to his Law of Devouring, yet it wasn't the effect of a law. It seemed more like an ability inherent to the Mechanical Mother herself.
"Interesting."
Jiang Shu chuckled as the Chaos Thunder Pool leaped out from his crown.
The Three Sacred Embryos formed