Collision

Gray-gold light gathered before the high-ranking Abyss Great Lord, changing from gas to solid, then from solid to crystal.

The crystal's structure was not chaotic. It had been calculated with precision.

Every order rune was embedded at a node in the crystal, and gray-gold chains linked rune to rune.

The wall's surface was smooth as a mirror, without a single line or flaw.

It was like metal polished to perfection, like glass wiped until it was transparent.

The high-ranking Abyss Great Lord slammed into the wall.

At the instant of impact, dark-red and gray-gold light burst from the point of collision.

It was not an explosion. It was a collision.

Two forces collided like two stars crashing together.

The wall began to shatter at the point of impact.

The gray-gold runes snapped one after another. Fragments drifted through the air like shattered glass. But the wall did not break all at once.

Its hardness let it hold on for an instant.

In that instant, cracks appeared across its surface, spreading outward from the center, from the point of impact to the wall's edges.

In that instant, the high-ranking Abyss Great Lord slowed for another heartbeat.

His body faltered slightly under the impact.

His scales creaked like metal being crushed.

More cracks appeared in the pitch-black Light Membrane around him. Crimson flecks seeped through them, pulsed a few times in the chaos, then vanished.

Two instants.

Less than a breath.

But Chu Ming used those two instants to do three things.

First, he had already sent Yanji a signal before those two instants began.

Not through words or divine sense, but through the resonance between his power of order and Yanji's law of fire.

When his power of order touched Yanji's law of fire, it naturally produced a ripple.

The ripple's