As the power of laws intertwined, blades, spears, swords, and halberds formed from profound law principles came slashing, sweeping, and thrusting toward Lu Xiaotian.
Lu Xiaotian stood in midair, meeting the weapons head-on without a single flashy move. With every punch and kick, he felt a decaying force invading his body without pause as he blocked the attacks. He had no choice but to expend even more power to dispel it.
Mountains shifted, and land masses hurtled toward Lu Xiaotian, crumbling apart as they came. Their immense gravity dragged at him, making it impossible for him to evade with his nimble footwork. At the same time, flowing flames clung to the mountains and land.
Lu Xiaotian now understood somewhat why the celestial immortals on this side of the Xuanyong battlefield avoided cultivating several different laws at once. Doing so took more time and effort, and required far more resources than usual—more than ordinary people could bear. Worse still, not only did tribulations come sooner, but the power of those tribulations rose sharply when they blended profound principles from different laws.
Lu Xiaotian struck out with a palm. The mountains and land before him shattered, and the flowing flames were repeatedly smashed apart. Yet the fragments of stone gathered around him, eventually forming a colossal mountain. Before he knew it, the surrounding space had been enclosed by these massive, heavy mountains. Terrifying gravity assailed him from every direction without pause, its force surpassing anything Lu Xiaotian had experienced in Earth Vault City.
And its strangeness was even greater. This terrifying gravity came from all directions, yet there was nothing contradictory about it; still, it restrained Lu Xiaotian's movements from every side. Then an even more powerful force of collapse surged from the outer mountains, trying to break both Lu Xiaotian and