Lynn opened his eyes, a flash of understanding passing through them.
An alchemy array?
He seemed to have seen this cultivation system in the Bone Vault.
It appeared to follow some principle of "equivalent exchange," using alchemy to reorganize the structure of matter and thereby transform its form.
The cultivation path of high-level alchemists was completely different from that of Wizards.
Wizards used themselves as anchors, stripping away and comprehending a certain law before condensing it into a Stigma, thus gaining the authority to control that law.
Alchemists did not strip away laws. They chose instead to establish "resonance" with the world's system of laws.
Rather than monopolizing a single law, they integrated themselves into the world's network of rules and understood the fundamental logic behind the composition of matter.
They knew the "rule equations" behind every ore, every drop of solution, and every act of refinement.
Once they mastered such equations, alchemists could, to a certain extent, invoke the laws of the world for Matter Reconstruction and energy conversion, achieving effects nearly akin to "speaking a law into being."
This was not sorcery, but the direct manipulation of the world's own rules.
They could even draw upon the trajectories of stars and the energy of celestial bodies to construct colossal refinement arrays on a world-spanning scale.
Their range and impact rivaled the domain expansion of Stigma Wizards, but in essence, this was an engineering-style external invocation rather than an outward projection of internal laws.
Yet this power did not come without a price.
Every law invoked left traces of disturbance within the world order. The greater the disturbance, the stronger the backlash from the world's will.
The world's will did not permit its own laws to be altered too frequently. It was an instinctive balancing mechanism.
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