Within the domain, space seemed to have been poured into blocks of black lead. Even the blood-red crystal dust drifting in the distance froze in an instant.
An overwhelming force of confinement spread out, frantically suppressing the laws' activity in the area.
Jiang Shu's pupils contracted sharply.
The violent warning from the Heart of Space almost pierced his sea of consciousness. He couldn't stay here any longer.
The broken bone beneath his feet trembled faintly, and spatial power surged forth once more by force.
Just as that pitch-black, swamp-like Annihilation Domain was about to reach the tip of his boot, his figure shattered like a reflection plunging into water, then vanished in the blink of an eye.
"Rrrip!"
He didn't appear precisely in a chosen spot as he had before. Instead, it was as if space had forcibly torn him out. He stumbled and rolled out at the edge of a vast, fractured canyon, several hundred meters to the image's front left.
The moment he landed, he even heard a faint but distinct crack from deep within his body. It was the backlash of overtaxing the Law of Space; even his bones seemed to groan.
He clutched his chest and broke into another fit of violent coughing. Blood seeped between his fingers, shimmering with a scorching silver light.
The image's strike missed. Watching the spot where Jiang Shu had appeared in such a sorry state, the crimson flames in its eyes leaped with even more savage intensity.
It didn't even turn toward him. Its enormous head merely swung around, locking onto its new target several hundred meters away.
To its senses, the distance across space seemed like a measure that could simply be ignored.
Its scarred bronze heavy armor creaked dully as it raised a foot once more. As if