It was as though some virulent poison had corroded it. The void became mottled and kaleidoscopic, its color shifting from grayish white to grayish black, then from grayish black to dark yellow, before finally turning into clumps of pus-like liquid that dripped into the depths of the Boundary Sea.
"Decay..."
"A law?"
Ye Lin's brows rose slightly, a trace of gravity flashing through his eyes.
In his eyes, all matter, all energy, all existence became rotten and decayed before this law, ultimately vanishing into nothingness.
Ye Lin's sword light slashed toward the black mist.
The sword light plunged into the mist like a clay ox sinking into the sea, disappearing without a trace.
It had not been blocked—it had decayed.
That silver-white sword light, condensed from the laws of the sword, rapidly dimmed, decayed, and shattered beneath the erosion of the black mist. In the end, it turned into countless tiny motes of light and vanished into the void.
Ye Lin's brow twitched slightly.
It was confirmed.
The Law of Decay.
A law capable of decaying all existence.
Including sword light.
Including Sword Qi.
Even including Sword Intent itself.
"Interesting."
He had only heard of this thing before; he had never seen it with his own eyes.
But now, he had.
Ye Lin smiled faintly, then drew his sword again.
This time, he did not slash at the mist. Instead, he slashed at the void before him.
Space was cut open, and a rift erupted with powerful spatial force, trying to suck the black mist inside.
But the black mist was not drawn in.
It corroded the spatial rift.
The rift Ye Lin had cut open began to blacken, rot, and collapse at its edges under the erosion of the black mist. It grew smaller and smaller, until it finally