Laws!

As the command was issued, a violent, obscure stream of information instantly surged into Lin Fan's sea of consciousness.

Without the slightest warning, Lin Fan felt as if the back of his head had been struck hard by a heavy, swung hammer.

"Ugh!"

The sharp pain turned his vision black, and his consciousness went blank for an instant.

Immediately after, he felt as if his entire being had been forcibly dragged out of his body by an invisible giant hand and crudely tossed into some unknown place.

When his vision slowly recovered, Lin Fan found himself in a pitch-black void.

Unlike the extraction of the first level of the Calamity Killing Art, where he had gone beneath a galaxy, there were no celestial bodies here at all; the surroundings were entirely nothingness.

Suddenly.

Whoosh!!!

A blinding purple thunderbolt tore into existence before Lin Fan's eyes, completely ripping through the pitch-black void.

This thunderbolt was filled with an eerie, violent, and destructive aura.

Unlike lightning in the natural world, this purple thunderbolt did not vanish in a flash; instead, it spread out like purple angry dragons, circling and roaring in the void, lingering for a long time.

The lightning illuminated the abyss, and Lin Fan's pupils constricted.

He saw a towering figure lurking in the depths of the nothingness.

A blurry, heaven-defying shadow stood in the endless void, holding a giant scythe.

He could not see its face, only feel the coldness and dominance that viewed all things in the universe as mere straw dogs.

Then, under Lin Fan's shocked gaze, the blurry shadow slowly raised the giant scythe in its hand.

The movement looked extremely slow, yet it seemed to contain a certain profound rhythm, drawing the thunder from the entire void space to wrap around the blade.

The scythe no longer appeared heavy, and purple arcs of electricity danced upon its edge.

Every jump of the electric arcs caused the surrounding void to distort, and even the space closest to the scythe began to develop fine black cracks under the flickering arcs.

Those were spatial rifts.

Though minute, they radiated a devouring power that made Lin Fan's heart tremble.

"Mountain... Collapse!"

A grand voice, accompanied by the sound of thunder, exploded in Lin Fan's mind.

Boom!

The giant scythe in the shadow's hand fell with a roar.

There were no flashy techniques, only extreme speed and extreme power.

In that instant, thunder exploded and space collapsed.

The previously stable void disintegrated instantly, and countless fine black cracks completely locked down and shredded everything in front.

A cold and majestic piece of information was forcefully branded into the depths of Lin Fan's memory along with this earth-shattering strike.

[Innate Divine Weapon Calamity Killing Art Second Level -- Mountain Collapse]

[Core Concept: Lightning Law, Space Law]

[Description: Use the lightning concept to drive extreme explosive speed, and use Calamity to trigger a spatial collapse in an instant. One strike unleashed, thunderous power descends, space is locked, and there is no escape.]

Outside, in the underground training hall.

"Hoo... hoo..."

Lin Fan opened his eyes abruptly, two purple lightning bolts seemingly flashing deep within his pupils.

He gasped for air, his entire body soaked in cold sweat as if he had just been fished out of water.

"Truly monstrous..."

Although he had only just received the information, he already felt the terrifying threshold of this move.

It was not a move that could be executed by brute force alone; it was the application of laws.

If the first level of the Calamity Killing Art, "Mountain Collapse," was purely physical extremity—a violent aesthetic of gravity and mass, an absolute pursuit of force-exertion techniques—then this second level, "Mountain Collapse," was a move that touched upon the fundamental laws of the universe.

"The lightning law governs the explosion, and the space law governs the lockdown."

Lin Fan took a deep breath and looked at Calamity in his hand.

"Although I have never come into contact with any laws before, as long as I can grasp the basics of the second level of the Calamity Killing Art, even if I only incorporate a trace of the 'lightning concept,' my attack speed and destructive power will increase geometrically."

This was the power of laws.

Even just entering the threshold was a dimensional strike against pure physical attacks.

"I might even be able to comprehend the lightning law and space law, just like those cosmic geniuses, and cross the threshold of laws while still at the Star level."

Lin Fan gripped the hilt, feeling the urge to destroy the world, and forcibly suppressed the desire to test the blade immediately.

Now was not the time.

Taking advantage of his highly active state of consciousness, Lin Fan did not stop, striking while the iron was hot.

"System, continue to extract the second level of the Sky-Splitting Escape Method!"

Hum!

Lin Fan felt the back of his neck and the base of his spine tighten simultaneously, as if someone had bound them with an icy thread and yanked them upward.

Then, his vision went black.

When his sight recovered, Lin Fan found himself standing in a space of pure white.

There was no thunder here, no celestial bodies, only light—light that was everywhere.

Just then, Lin Fan noticed the light in front of him distort, and a silver-white roc appeared before him.

This silver-white roc was not as towering or oppressive as the previous giant shadow, but every feather-blade on its body seemed to be condensed from the purest light, its edges flowing with a sharpness that felt blinding just to look at.

The moment Lin Fan's gaze fell upon the silver roc, it moved.

It merely flapped its wings gently, and then, a bizarre scene occurred.

In Lin Fan's field of vision, the roc was clearly still in place, maintaining its wing-flapping posture.

But the next second, an indescribable, sharp chill grazed past his scalp.

The severe misalignment between vision and perception gave Lin Fan an extremely intense sense of tearing and a feeling of extreme incoordination.

And this was only the beginning; Lin Fan found that the ubiquitous light around him suddenly began to refract and distort crazily.

Everything around him seemed to have been put in slow motion, save for that silver figure, which transformed into a streak of flowing light moving freely through the "absolutely static" space-time.

It was impossibly fast, so fast that time itself seemed to have stalled behind it.

When you saw it, you were only seeing an afterimage it had left behind.

Whoosh!

The sky full of light and shadow suddenly converged, and then the roc transformed into an extremely thin, bright line of light, instantly piercing through the entire pure white space and rushing into Lin Fan's mind.

[Innate Divine Weapon Sky-Splitting Escape Method Second Level -- Flowing Light]

[Core Concept: Light Law, Time Law (Rudimentary)]

[Description: Transform the body into light, distort light and shadow, and in the moment of extreme explosive speed, cause the flow of time around oneself to stall slightly. The enemy's field of vision is but a delusion; where the body resides, it is already at the ends of the earth.]

Outside, in the underground training hall.

"Ugh!"

Lin Fan opened his eyes abruptly, his first sensation upon waking being nausea.

He pressed his hands hard against the floor, his face pale as paper.

His brain felt as if it had been churned hundreds of times in a tumble dryer, and the intense dizziness made it impossible for him to even maintain his balance.

If anyone looked into his eyes at this moment, they would find his pupils in a dilated state, as if his focus had not yet returned from that stretched world.

If the "Mountain Collapse" of the Calamity Killing Art was extreme destruction, then the "Flowing Light" of the Sky-Splitting Escape Method was extreme eeriness and speed.

It was a terrifying speed that could even deceive perception.

Lin Fan gasped for air, taking a long time to suppress the urge to vomit.

"Ha, haha, hahahaha..."

After recovering, Lin Fan looked down at the silver Sky Splitter and the black Calamity in front of him, unable to stop laughing out loud.

If the first-level inheritance had given him the foundation of a powerhouse, then this second level had granted him the ladder to climb to a higher level.

"Calamity focuses on killing, head-on confrontation, and world-destroying power."

"Sky Splitter focuses on the bizarre, the interplay of light and shadow, and silent killing."

One hard and one soft, one bright and one dark.

The two law concepts complemented each other, constructing a nearly perfect combat system.

If the first level of the two weapons was teaching him basic force-exertion techniques and increasing the amplitude of his telekinetic weapons, then the second level was truly touching upon the laws, with the intensity increasing countless times over.

This was no longer a quantitative accumulation, but a qualitative leap.

Lin Fan closed his eyes, his consciousness sinking back into his sea of consciousness.

"True Self."

In the center of that magnificent Bronze Hall, the True Self clone immediately stopped its movements.

"Record the second level of the Calamity Killing Art and the second level of the Sky-Splitting Escape Method."