It worked!
The anxiety gripping Chen Lin finally eased.
Every stroke had now been successfully linked, the phantom image of the runic inscription had appeared, and an aura of rules had emerged. All that remained was to stabilize the inscription and condense it into a runic inscription seed.
This was merely the finishing stage. Normally, nothing would go wrong.
But just as that thought crossed his mind,
the inscription's phantom image trembled, and one of its strokes suddenly snapped.
Before Chen Lin could sense what had happened, a chain reaction began.
Every structure connected to that stroke began to tremble and crack. In an instant, the fractures spread throughout the inscription, leaving its phantom image like a spiderweb.
It twisted and swayed, utterly unstable.
Chen Lin's heart instantly went cold.
But he did nothing.
There was nothing he could do.
With a mishap like this, even a Dominator standing guard beside him could only stare helplessly.
The Myriad Phenomena Art explicitly stated that once a rule runic inscription collapsed, the process was irreversible. All he could do now was prepare for the imminent backlash.
And try to save his own life.
Crack!
A faint sound seemed to ring out in Chen Lin's mind.
The fractured phantom image instantly collapsed. Rather than reverting to fine, intricate inscriptions, it became a mass of terrifying energy that expanded in every direction.
"Fuck!"
Chen Lin cursed.
According to the cultivation technique, an inscription's collapse would cause a backlash, but it should not be excessively severe. As long as one's body and soul strength were sufficient, survival was usually possible.
But with an explosion this powerful, and inside his body at that, how could he possibly survive?
Even someone in the Wheel Realm would probably be reduced to dust.
Though he knew the situation was