"Ahem...Yin Chen..."
At this time, Zhang Lexuan endured the severe pain and staggered over. She covered her chest that was bleeding continuously. Her face was as pale as paper, but the shock and curiosity in her eyes almost overflowed.
"You... how did you do that?"
She witnessed the whole process with her own eyes. Yin Chen just teleported close to Ice Empress, and then threw a punch, which was blocked by Ice Empress before it hit.
But the scarlet lightning that appeared out of thin air in the end was completely beyond her comprehension.
How could a Soul Ancestor achieve this?
Hearing Zhang Lexuan's inquiry, Ice Empress, who had closed his eyes and waited for death, couldn't help but opened his eyes again, looking at Yin Chen with strong confusion and final curiosity.
Yes, even if she dies, she wants to die in a clear way.
What exactly is scarlet lightning? How did he turn the tide of the battle in an instant?
Yin Chen looked at the two women in front of him, one was the proud daughter of mankind and the other was Far North the ice king Snow Empress. At this moment, they were both full of doubts because of themselves.
He gently patted the ice chips on his hand, looked calmly at Ice Empress's green eyes full of unwillingness and doubt, and slowly said:
"Since you are about to die, I will tell you."
"My fourth Soul Skill'Here and Now', the effect is the effect first and the cause later."
He stretched out a finger and pointed at Ice Empress:
"The fact that you were hit by my fist is the 'result' that has already happened in advance and was anchored by me. It is the destined 'future', and you."
His fingers moved towards Ice Empress's blocking hand.
"Blocking my fist means that you have changed this established future."
"Change the future that has already happened?"
Zhang Lexuan subconsciously muttered and repeated, feeling that his world view was being subverted.
"That's right."
Yin Chen nodded.
"There is a price to pay for changing the established future. That scarlet lightning did not originate from my power."
He raised his hand and pointed at the sky, as if pointing at some kind of existence in the dark.
"That is the power of the universe itself, and it is one of the underlying rules that maintains the operation of all things - the embodiment of the law of cause and effect."
"The rules of the universe... the law of cause and effect..."
Ice Empress chewed these words in a low voice, his green pupils filled with disbelief.
She has survived for hundreds of thousands of years and has touched the edge of the law, but she never thought that one day she would directly "offend" the basic law of the universe in this way.
"The future is inherently uncertain, with countless possibilities coexisting."
Yin Chen continued to explain, like a patient mentor.
"But the future that is observed and anchored is different. It is a trajectory 'fixed' by my own will from countless possibilities. To change this trajectory is to violate cause and effect, and will naturally be rejected and punished by the underlying rules of the universe, which is what you see - Punishment of Causality."
He paused and looked at the black marks still remaining on Ice Empress's body:
"Of course, the intensity of the punishment depends on the 'weight' of the future being changed. You only changed a future as trivial as 'hit by my fist', so the intensity of the Punishment of Causality it induces is not high. It only severely injures you who is dying. If what you change is a major future like 'killed by me'..."
Yin Chen did not say any more, but the meaning of those unfinished words made Ice Empress and Zhang Lexuan feel a chill running down their spines at the same time.
"Of course."
Yin Chen The topic changed.
"With my current strength, I can't directly anchor the future of 'killing you'. The gap between Soul Power and mental power is too big, but"
The corners of his mouth once again curved in a way that made Ice Empress's heart palpitate.
"I can use force, such as just now, to use the Punishment of Causality you brought from changing the tiny future to indirectly achieve... the purpose of accelerating your death process."
Silence.
A deathly silence spread in the wind and snow.
Ice Empress and Zhang Lexuan were completely confused. Their brains seemed to be frozen and they needed time to digest this information that was completely beyond their cognitive scope.
What hell is this Soul Skill?!
After several seconds, Ice Empress suddenly came back to her senses. The huge sense of absurdity and frustration made her almost vomit blood. She forced herself to raise her finger and pointed at Yin Chen, her voice slightly changed due to excitement:
"You... you mean, if you want to hit me, I have to stand still and let you hit me? Otherwise, if you change the future, I will be... struck by lightning?!"
"Understanding it from a rule level, yes."
Yin Chen nodded affirmatively, speaking in a matter-of-fact tone.
"If you had let me hit you with that punch, nothing would have happened to you. At most... you would have just been punched in the face by me and it would have hurt a little bit."
He even kindly added.
"I don't have much strength."
"..."
The corner of Zhang Lexuan's mouth on the side twitched violently uncontrollably. Looking at Yin Chen's calm expression of describing the "truth of the universe", and then thinking of Soul Skill's rogue effect, she felt dizzy.
Where is Soul Skill?
This is simply a bug.
It's a rule-based threat, forcing the other party to act according to the script you've written. If you don't act, you'll be punished.
"What the hell!"
Ice Empress finally couldn't help but uttered a curse word. She had lived for so many years, experienced countless fights, and witnessed all kinds of weird abilities, but this was the first time she had encountered such domineering, unreasonable, and... rogue abilities.
She looked Yin Chen up and down like a monster, her tone full of incredible suspicion:
"You... are you really a human being?! Have you humans Soul Master... have started to study this kind of thing now?!"
She couldn't imagine what kind of Martial Soul and chance it would take for a Soul Ancestor boy to master such a terrifying ability that touches the original rules of the universe.
This is completely beyond her understanding of "Soul Skill".
Yin Chen did not answer her question directly, but looked back at her calmly and asked:
"Now, do you understand how you lost?"
Ice Empress opened his mouth, but in the end it could only turn into a cold snort full of powerlessness.
She understands, but she would rather not understand that this way of losing is so frustrating, and it is simply the biggest stain in her hundreds of thousands of years of life.
However, under the extreme frustration and anger, a subtle thought, which even she herself was not aware of, began to quietly surge - this human boy has such incredible abilities... Could he be... a change... to break the desperate situation in front of her?
As soon as this thought emerged, I could no longer suppress it.
The biting cold wind rolled up the ice shards, making a whimpering sound, like a lament for this Jedi land.
Ice Empress fell weakly on the snow, with Hundred-Thousand-Year Snow Lotus in his arms emitting a faint soft light.